Every partner has their strengths, and our responsibility as professionals is to recognize those strengths and capitalize on them, choreographically. You have to translate that chemistry on the dance floor and make their personalities shine.
Valentin Chmerkovskiy
It's funny, I feel like dogs take after their owners and certain mannerisms and the energy that they have.
Victoria Arlen has given me a purpose beyond the dance floor. She has given me an opportunity of a lifetime to be able to make an impact on a very special community and beyond.
I have this inherent kind of want to help someone.
My dad had two college degrees but came here and was boxing pizzas. He was willing to pay his dues for the opportunity to live here and breathe this air.
Kissing is like hugging with your lips.
I mean, I'm a Ukrainian immigrant from Brooklyn who grew up dancing and playing the violin!
I believe in my partner always; whether that translates into winning or not that's irrelevant but I believe I'm going to win every season.
My favorite breakfast cereal is Cocoa Pebbles.
It's not about the gold medals or the trophies or the money. It's about the people that you cherish and can share incredible moments with.
I would love to be partnered with someone who really wants to dance, who really wants to do it well. Because sometimes you get people that sign up for the wrong reasons.
I watched the buildings go down on 9/11. I saw how much that impacted our country.
I'm more eager to be a father than a husband, for sure.
We moved to Brooklyn, N.Y., with no idea how to speak the language. The second day in America, my brother got robbed for his roller blades. That was a very traumatic experience.
It's crazy how fast life moves.
Honestly there's nothing soothing, nothing consoling like being part of a collective, dancing to music.
Adults are just kids who have spent a little more time on this earth.
You can't pay me to stand on a treadmill for more than five minutes, but I love being physically active.
I grew up dancing, I grew up competing in dance, being on television, and I pursued dance for my own self-reflection and fulfillment, and now as I'm getting older, I see that everybody seeks a greater purpose.
For me, there's life before and after facial hair, so that's how I look at everything.
I feel like having kids is the greatest gift you can possibly have.
I think the only way a blessing is realized is if you pass it forward.
My father is my hero, my mother is a saint, and I want to fill those shoes and I want to be a father for somebody else.
I've never felt like this country owed me anything. If anything, I am forever in debt to this country.
I wanted to provide not only for my family but my country.
I've played classical violin since I was 5 years old.
The reality is that we were blessed with parents that put us into a lot of things.
I don't physically have the strength to be productive at work following a three-hour sleep. I can't do that.
From the fans to the hands that move the props to the producers who help me with concepts and wardrobe that helps me with I pour my heart into every single detail, so to see that reciprocated, that support meant the world to me.
I play a mean game of Connect Four.
I rarely drink, but when I do, I prefer Tequila.
I'm a man of few words and many actions.
There's this love and pride and loyalty, but there's also a great deal of generosity and I think that's at the core of why I love being a performer.
Tommy Chong is one of my favorite celebrities of all time.
I try to do my very best and hopefully that comes through, first to my partner, second of all with Dancing with the Stars, my employer, and third of all with the fans.
I'd make a cute couple with a lot of people, you know what I'm sayin'?
I can't control what people think. I live my life and I try to live it, you know, the way I want to live it.
I love to love. I just have to find somebody to love.
I don't think it's very masculine to whine about your injuries.
I look like 300' up front. Turn to the side, I look like a zebra.
And the beauty, me being a dance ambassador, is - what I find a lot of pride in is how inclusive dance is and that it doesn't judge based on any of the past. It kind of just wholeheartedly welcomes people in.
Not everyone gets to be a winner unless they choose to be. Winning is a mentality.
I have nothing but the most incredible things to say about Christie Brinkley because of the person that I've met in the last month and a half, not really having an extensive knowledge of what her career looked like.
I don't think there's better dancing out there than 'Dancing with the Stars.'
The best part about live shows is you have a script, and you throw it out after the first five minutes.
I was the kid who didn't speak English, with a violin and ballroom dance shoes.
Sometimes it's nice to have a little recognition.
Doing what you love and doing it with the people you love is the ultimate dream.
I know pictures say a thousand words, but they also don't say millions of other words that need to be said.
My newly acquired title of being an uncle boy was this a special one life-changing it even made my Instagram bio.
