36 Unbelievable Selected Quotes By - Anton Du Beke

36 Unbelievable Selected Quotes By - Anton Du Bekee

My perfect morning is spent drinking coffee, eating porridge and reading the paper at a local cafe.

— Anton du Beke

My old dance teacher, Jimmy Wilde, a former European ballroom dancing champion, was so sophisticated.

— Anton du Beke

My favourite dance is the Foxtrot. It's a proper dance with proper music. It has class.

— Anton du Beke

With the media how it is these days, people expect to know everything. I don't talk about my girlfriend because essentially she doesn't want to be talked about.

— Anton du Beke

My father is Hungarian and moved to Britain during the uprising, and my Spanish mum comes from Galicia; they moved here at the end of the Fifties.

— Anton du Beke

I just like to sit and admire my garden; it's so well kept by my gardener and my girlfriend.

— Anton du Beke

I have a magnificent chin and a long, odd-shaped face. As a result, I always look better in collars.

— Anton du Beke

When you dance together, there's a fabulous interaction. It's quite intimate. You're touching your partner, leading them. Learning how to behave in that person's proximity is a skill. I love it. I can't imagine tiring of it.

— Anton du Beke

Ballroom is two people dancing together to music, touching in perfect harmony.

— Anton du Beke

I worked as an interior designer. I worked as a furniture salesman. I worked as a financial adviser. I worked as a painter and decorator - that wasn't for very long. I was a baker for about four-and-a-half years.

— Anton du Beke

The Fred Astaire movies made a huge impression on me.

— Anton du Beke

Because we had no other relatives living in the U.K., me, my parents and my siblings continuously journeyed abroad to bond with our extended family.

— Anton du Beke

I don't like the Samba; it's nonsense. With a lot of these Latin dances I can't really understand what they're all about. I like the Rumba and the Paso Doble but the others I could take or leave.

— Anton du Beke

My goal is to be the best TV presenter, the best entertainer, the best singer. I still want to be the best dancer. I want to be the best at everything I do.

— Anton du Beke

I go through money like a bloke with three arms.

— Anton du Beke

Too many multi-vitamins are packaged as one size fits all, but you should be more specific about what you need. When I was competing as a dancer, I took zinc for healthy skin and immune system.

— Anton du Beke

Give up smoking. Don't get so fat. So much illness is self-induced - which I can't stand. And I'm not a good nursemaid. Don't call me if you're ill.

— Anton du Beke

Being fit is the easiest part of being a dance professional. I used to just throw on a backpack full of rocks and run up a hill. You don't even have to go to a gym.

— Anton du Beke

If things don't go fantastically, you just have to deal with it.

— Anton du Beke

I like to get up and get out. Otherwise you end up kicking about, and it's easy to flick the telly on; then before you know it, it is 11 A.M. and you haven't done anything.

— Anton du Beke

I've been playing golf as long as I've been dancing, since I was 13 or 14. I play off six. I like to get out on a golf course as often as I can.

— Anton du Beke

My only drive was to be the best dancer in the world, but I never won the world championship.

— Anton du Beke

When I'm dancing with any woman, I immediately get rid of intimacy barriers. I just give her a big hug and crack on.

— Anton du Beke

I'm busier than ever and it's led to new opportunities. But I've never worried about being rich or famous - for me, it's all about the dancing.

— Anton du Beke

Ballroom dancing: it's a wonderful thing at so many levels because you've got to follow the rules. They used to call those rules etiquette once upon a time, but you don't really have that any more.

— Anton du Beke

It's great that ballroom dancing is being recognised. For many years ballroom dancers were misunderstood and other dance forms didn't want anything to do with us.

— Anton du Beke

I'm a bit of a traditionalist; the ballroom is all about tails and I never mess about with that. But for the Latin you can have a bit fun: tight trousers, gold shirt open to my waist, be a bit ridiculous.

— Anton du Beke

Since being involved in 'Strictly Come Dancing,' my life has changed completely. I can't walk down the street without women throwing themselves at me, I usually wouldn't mind, but they are of a certain age. Hopefully, after this series, they will bring their daughters!

— Anton du Beke

You can't talk about yourself in the third party - that makes you a lunatic!

— Anton du Beke

One day, I just wandered into a dance class full of girls, and that was it. I thought, 'Hang on! I'll have a bit of this.' I went back a week later and got dragged up by the teacher. It wasn't a massive calling.

— Anton du Beke

A dancer's career is short - you just keep going until your legs pack up.

— Anton du Beke

I don't get grumpy at a 'Strictly' level, you understand. We're just making a television show - the person I'm dancing with can't dance; they're doing their best, and we're not going to win the World Championships.

— Anton du Beke

I just get grumpy with bad behaviour.

— Anton du Beke

I've never worried about being rich or famous - for me, it's all about the dancing.

— Anton du Beke

I went professional with my partner, Erin Boag, 11 years ago, and we had success competing round the world, but appearing on 'Strictly' has changed my life.

— Anton du Beke

It may sound cliched, but 'Strictly' is a real journey. I try to encourage my partner to stay in as long as they can, but above all to enjoy it.

— Anton du Beke

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