Oti Mabuse Quotes

Oti Mabuse

Oti Mabuse

South African Dancer

Born: Aug 8, 1990

Africa Dance Day First Me You

My first passion was to create for young girls the idea that you have to be brave and courageous, it's not easy taking big steps and saying, 'I'm going to be a professional dancer'. Oti Mabuse

Saying You Passion Be Brave Girl First Big Young Dancer Easy Taking Idea Steps Courageous Brave Going Young Girls Create Professional

The goal was for me to become a civil engineer. But one day I really felt that it was important for me to do what I really loved. I was really good at engineering, but I didn’t have a passion for it, so going to work was something I had to do, not something that I really wanted to do. Oti Mabuse

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My family plays a big part in my role as a dancer and my sister was my first trainer. She’s still my role model and inspiration until this day. She was my first trainer, she taught me my first steps. Oti Mabuse

At the end of the day, a show like 'Strictly' is not about what colour you are, or where you come from. It is about how hard you are prepared to work and how well you can dance. Oti Mabuse

Work Day You End Of The Day Dance Strictly About Colour Come Like Well How End Where Hard Show Prepared

I couldn’t ask for anything else. I am super, super happy. Oti Mabuse

Happy I Am Else Super Am Anything Anything Else Ask

It's really important to always have a positive mind-set, no matter what people have been through. Oti Mabuse

Positive People Matter Important Mind-Set Through Always Been Really

I have a thing for earphones - I have five types. Oti Mabuse

Types Five Thing

I’m obsessed with 'Wicked', and I’d love to play Nala in 'The Lion King'. Some of the songs from 'The Lion King' are performed in my native tongue, so when the cast performed an extract from the show in 'Strictly' in the language I grew up with, it made me cry. Oti Mabuse

With TV presenting, I speak a lot anyway! Oti Mabuse

Speak TV Lot Anyway Presenting

In the rest of Europe, dance is seen as a sport and in the UK it’s seen as an art. And art isn’t subsidised in the same way sport is. Oti Mabuse

Art Dance Rest Seen Way UK Sport Same Europe

I like to be so good, that no-one can have anything to say about me; my dancing speaks for itself. Oti Mabuse

Good Me Dancing Say About No-One Like Itself Anything Speaks

If something doesn’t go your way, then look for another way. If something’s broken, fix it. Oti Mabuse

Broken Way Something Look Another Another Way Go Fix Then Your

I'm smiling every single day because every opportunity I've been given feels like a baby in Disneyland, I'm constantly hoping to move on to the next job. Oti Mabuse