Chmerkovskiy Maksim Quotes & Sayings

I never wanted to be a dancer. I was too big, I was too slow. I remember not liking it. Later on, when I came to the United States, I realized I had a skill, and when you come to this country, you realize if you have a skill and a determination, you can do anything. — Maksim Chmerkovskiy

The cultures of the Americas were extremely complex and interesting, with their own languages and observatories to watch the stars. The more you know about them the more you realize how extremely impressive they were. Bloodthirsty, though, I think they were as well. — Michelle Stuart

There were torn between wanting to look back and wanting to exist absolutely in the new life they'd created — Cristina Henriquez

I'm an emotional person. I may not seem that way, but I'm an emotional person. — Maksim Chmerkovskiy

My grandma and my mom are not happy about the fact that I am still a bachelor. It's not on my mind that I have to find the person I'm going to spend the rest of my life with. It will happen the way it's going to happen. — Maksim Chmerkovskiy

Spiral shapes weave through everything. Magnetic fields are arranged in spirals. Mushroom spores propagate in spirals. And no matter what our race or religion, size or shape, we humans are made of the same all-pervading spiral geometry. This is very apparent in the swirling shape of heart muscles and skin pores. — Jay Harman

Behind a very sturdily built and staunchly defended facade of practical, unromantic hard-headedness towards life, there was just that little pool of softness that would never show if you poked for it, but could be reached if you knew just how - and never let on that you were looking for it. — Isaac Asimov

I would love to be a dad. For the longest time, I've wanted kids, but you have to have the right setup, right? — Maksim Chmerkovskiy

Would rather learn from failures I'm proud of than take pride in success I don't believe in. — Maksim Chmerkovskiy

No one's place in this world is guaranteed. Not everyone is going to get a happy ending. But life isn't about how it ends. It's about the moments between. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

You don't use words like 'kind of interested' to describe how I feel about you. — Melina Marchetta

I would definitely want kids. Would they be dancers? I dunno. That's up to them. If they show interest, I will push them do the best. I was not brought up in a dancer's family. I was brought up in a family where the mentality was whatever you do, you gotta try to be the best at it. — Maksim Chmerkovskiy

I want to paint the way a bird sings. — Claude Monet

I'm more of a fantasy kind of person. I like movies. My favorite movie is 'Kick Ass.' — Maksim Chmerkovskiy

'DWTS' came to America and I was ranked first in the U.S. When I got the call, I turned them down. That's why I missed the first season because I felt like I was still seriously competing and it would have been distracting. They called me again for the 2nd season and I said yes. I wanted to see what it was like to do something different and here we are. — Maksim Chmerkovskiy

I spent a lot of time taking acting lessons ... Actors have no inhibitions, and I'm inhibited by everything. To be able to make fun of yourself is a skill and a liberating experience. — Maksim Chmerkovskiy

Leadership requires a non-stop demand of fortitude from Day 1 to the end. — Bill Hybels

In its confounding of the logic that maintains terms like high and low, or base and sacred as polar opposites, it is this play of the contradictory that allows one to think the truth that Bataille never tired of demonstrating: that violence has historically been lodged at the heart of the sacred; that to be genuine, the very thought of the creative must simultaneously be an experience of death; and that it is impossible for any moment of true intensity to exist apart from a cruelty that is equally extreme. — Rosalind E. Krauss

When I first joined 'Dancing with the Stars,' I did not want to do it. It's not what I like, it's not what I believe in ... the judges are fake, this is fake, that is fake ... there is not a lot of reality. — Maksim Chmerkovskiy

Listen, I'm a sweet guy. I'm just intense at work. I have nothing but the end result in mind. My entire career has been like that. — Maksim Chmerkovskiy

I sleep - laying down, not on the ceiling. Nothing about my life is crazy. I fly a lot, I travel a lot. I eat and sleep like everyone else. — Maksim Chmerkovskiy

I spent my entire childhood with my father. I started my first business at 16, and we became business partners. He's not just a mentor and somebody that I look up to, but he's also someone whom I took work ethic and determination and all of those qualities from. — Maksim Chmerkovskiy

As a dancer, obviously, we are all inspired by Michael Jackson, and I always looked up to Gene Kelly. He was a bigger version of Fred Astaire, and he was amazing as well. — Maksim Chmerkovskiy

Dancing has been in us, in people, since the Neanderthal age. There's something about moving, something about interpreting yourself to the music, that's attractive, that's interesting, that's intriguing, and everyone wishes they could do that. — Maksim Chmerkovskiy

Pope Leo Xth is reported as saying, "The fable of Christ has been quite profitable to us. — Elliot George

There's no better exercise than dancing. 'Dancing with the Stars' is amazing. I used to take it for granted, but the three months you spend on the show, with that grueling regimen, you just shed weight. You can eat anything you want and it doesn't stick. — Maksim Chmerkovskiy

There is no class of people in the world, who have such good memories as creditors. — P.T. Barnum

Do you know what a showmance is? It is like being at a summer camp when you're a teenager. You spend summertime away from your home. When you spend three months very closely with someone at a particular place, it is like a summer love. You have no choice but to get involved with that person. — Maksim Chmerkovskiy

I am a hopeless romantic who falls in lust and gets in trouble. I love my work and am very productive, yet I always find time to play. — Maksim Chmerkovskiy

I look for someone whose upbringing was somewhat similar to mine because they can understand me - love for the family and everything else. You see someone's relationship with their parents, and you realize what that person's going to be like as a parent. — Maksim Chmerkovskiy