Carrie Ann Inaba Quotes

I started my career as a singer in Japan, but left it all behind to focus on my dancing career.

I’ve really become super active in rescuing animals, and it has made my life feel so much better. I can’t even express to you how happy it has made me.

I love fresh fruit and vegetables. I’m not a strict dieter. I don’t think that anything in life should be so regimented that you’re not having fun or can’t enjoy like everybody else. Just know that fresh food is always going to be better for you.

I love pets and I love animals, and I just got a new puppy, a new rescue named Peanut. She‘s a tiny little Chihuahua mix.

I’m very lucky because I love fruit and to this day, that has saved me because I’d much rather have fruit than cookies.

I’m considering going back to school to become a registered dance therapist.

I’ve never been supercritical about my body.

I have arthritis. The space around my spinal cord has become compressed.

I come from a dancing background, and I know it’s stereotypical, but I would dance because I wasn’t comfortable speaking to people.

I don’t need that much to live – we don’t need that much to have a wonderful life. I learned that from animals.

When I’m in New York, I have a wonderful hair and makeup team. We’ve just been laughing all day today. In work, I believe that you really need to choose people that you get along with because work is life, so you may as well enjoy your time. I’m lucky. I have great people around me, and we laugh all day.

I went through this phase where I thought pink and purple matched. To dance class, I’d wear purple tights and pink leg warmers and paint my shoes purple. It was really odd.

I wasn’t a ballet baby. My first dance class was in an outdoor pavilion when I was three. It was called ‘creative movement.’ The teacher gave us chiffon scarves in beautiful colors. She turned on some music and said, ‘Now go dance.’ So for me, dance has always been about self-expression.

My poor vision gives me a soft-focus morning. For the first half hour, I kind of wander through my house, and everything is a blur. I put my contacts in when I’m ready to deal with the world.

I really do want to have a child.