Chmerkovskiy Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. Well, what do you know," I whispered in disbelieve.

Luanne Bennett

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. The safest thing to do when in danger is to be too stupid to know you are in danger.

Thomm Quackenbush

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. Would rather learn from failures I'm proud of than take pride in success I don't believe in.

Maksim Chmerkovskiy

#11. Americans need to call on Boomers, in their next act onstage, to behave like grown-ups. And there is no better way for them to do this than to guide young people to lives of greater meaning, effectiveness, and purpose.

Eric Liu

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. I am an eternal optimist. Being happy is a choice. And you can make that choice every day, if you want to.

Brittany Murphy

#15. Everything I do is somehow connected to velocity.

Hans Ulrich Obrist

#16. 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

#17. A year's work can be ruined quickly, sometimes within seconds, if roasting isn't done well.

Robert W. Thurston

#18. 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

#19. I realized that poverty was a kind of captivity.

Nancy E. Turner

#20. 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

#21. I'm an emotional person. I may not seem that way, but I'm an emotional person.

Maksim Chmerkovskiy

#22. Brits have a better sense of humor in most ways. It's darker, more cutting.

Stephan Pastis

#23. It is just as important, perhaps more important, for the teacher to have the benefit of personal counseling when he needs it as it is for the student.

William C. Menninger

#24. You can curtesy on my dick.

Cassia Leo

#25. 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

#26. I'm more of a fantasy kind of person. I like movies. My favorite movie is 'Kick Ass.'

Maksim Chmerkovskiy

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. One of the most important tasks of the United States House of Representatives is to pass a budget resolution.

Marsha Blackburn

#30. Ibn Taymiyyah lived poorly. He was imprisoned and threatened. But I have never seen anyone as happy as him.

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya