00:00I have news for you, Prince William.
00:21We'll see how long that lasts.
00:28Those stereotypes and things like that are so harmful for young male dancers, because
00:34it really discourages boys from dancing.
00:43Laura, really?
00:53Some of us take ballet.
00:55Some of us win Tony Awards because we took ballet.
00:58Ballet teaches you integrity, teaches you discipline, teaches you respect, and it teaches
01:02you bravery.
01:03And if there are any boys out there that want to dance and want to pick up a dance class,
01:07do it.
01:08Boys dance too.
01:09Shut out that laughter, and you can be successful if you work really hard.
01:13Look at the great contributors to the world and society, men that have studied dance.
01:19Steve Jobs, hello.
01:22You know, Bob Fosse, Christopher Walken, Dustin Hoffman, Patrick Dempsey, Norman Nixon.
01:30We'd get more Steve Jobs if we had more ballet, less bullying.
01:38Somehow at five years old, I already had it on my mind that dancing was only for girls.
01:43My gosh, I don't even know where I would get that idea from at five, you know what I mean?
01:48I don't want to have boys these days have that same mentality, and that mentality obviously
01:53comes from what you see on TV, what you hear in the news, what people talk about.
02:07No matter what I say in terms of that I didn't get bullied that much, yes, absolutely, I
02:13still got bullied, and I still heard things and people smirking and things like that.
02:19I just knew that I loved it enough to filter out the noise, and I knew that in the future
02:25it's like you won't hear it as much, and there's an entire world out there of male dancers
02:31and professional male dancers and stuff like that, so it was like I knew there was a future.
02:43There's an entire dance world out there, there's an entire arts world out there that appreciates
02:47dance and appreciates what you do, and it's just like train hard and get out of there
02:53and just live your life, it's going to be amazing.
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