Dancer Quotes

My favorite dancer is Sylvie Guillem.

The life of a dancer is tragically short. What is remarkable about the New York City Ballet is that it makes us forget that. Because it keeps the ballet alive.

We've always just gotten up there and played. We don't have any dancers, we don't have all that stuff going on, we just get up there and play.

There were many good actresses in my time like Jane Powell and Debbie Reynolds, but I was the only dancer.

Fred Astaire was a more formal, trained dancer who loved waltzing and only danced with the girls.

Dancer, bride, runaway wife, radical filmmaker and pioneer - Shirley Clarke is one of the great undertold stories of American independent cinema.

Since I became a dancer, I have felt much better about myself.

The connection between conscious and unconscious poses particular problems in the dancer because the body is the soul of action.

I'm not a great dancer. I know I'm not. But I know that I can move. I can throw shapes, just not in the right order.

Obviously, the young dancers lack a certain air of maturity.

I have been very lucky to work in so many new ballets, but that is what a dancer's work is.

I've got no plans to be a ballet dancer at the moment.

Forget the dancer, the center of the ego; become the dance. That is meditation.

You're a dancer; don't strain, don't force it. Be one with the hurdle, let it happen, relax while running fast.

Dancing is not one of my talents. But when you've had a few drinks anyone is a good dancer, right?

I used to get so comfortable running the hurdles, I was just like a ballet dancer going out there and going through the routines.

Repetitiveness and discipline are the secrets of cake decorating. The art comes from the meticulous technique, the way it does for a dancer.

All the dancer's gestures are signs of things, and the dance called rational, because it aptly signifies and displays something over and above the pleasure of the senses.

I'm a terrible dancer. The worst.

I had a wonderful childhood, coming from Cincinnati, and I think that it was great going into the life that I was going to have, where you have to start young as a dancer.

I liked to read but, being a dancer, I didn't have a lot of time to read.

The greater the fool the better the dancer.

It's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer.

In those days, male dancers were a rarer breed than women. as they are still today, A good male dancer, one as strong as we were, was very difficult to come by if you couldn't afford to pay them.

But now - look, I have to take care of myself. I work out every day. I'm a dancer. I've always been an athlete, and I'm one of those people who start to go crazy if they don't run or do something.

I can relax in L.A. I think I'm the only person in that town who doesn't want to act. I was an OK singer. I was an OK dancer. But acting? Never could do it.

Anyone who has a child today should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he'll escape.

I dance with the dancers.

In the beginning, all I wanted to do was to be a singer and a dancer. That was my real groove, my real interest. When it came to doing films, my biggest goal was to do a commercial.

She didn't even have to smile, and she rarely did outside her house--it was the eyes, her dancer's carriage, the way she seemed to deliberate over the smallest movement of her body.

A dancer differeth from a madman only in length of time; one is mad so long as he liveth, the other while he danceth.

As a singer you're a great dancer.

EVERY SINGLE DANCER, SINGER and BAND MEMBER is a BRILLIANT SOLO ARTIST

I don't date dancers, but I've always wanted to teach guys how to dance.

I was a dancer before I was an actress, so I've always been someone who likes to communicate from my body and movement.

A good dancer changes the way dancing was thought after he left the floor.

I initially told people I wanted to be a dancer and ultimately a "Rockette." I didn't really know what a musical theatre performer was other than the Shirley Temple type.

Human nature is so weak that the honest men who have no religion make me fret with their perilous virtue, as rope-dancers with their dangerous equilibrium.

I didn't want to be a dancer... I just did it to work my way through college. But I was always an athlete and gymnast, so it came naturally.

I've never fancied myself as a pole dancer.

Always the question for dancers is: Can we fly?

I was a terrible dancer. I dance like an Englishman.

Each dancer has a different dialect that they speak.

I always call Billy Elliot a fantasy autobiography because I never wanted to be a dancer, but I got a lot of stick from the other kids about wanting to be a writer and being interested in drama.

I love Abby Lee Miller. Honestly, if there's such a thing as past lives, I was definitely a dancer.

The dancer becomes the dance. And I am the writing.

The relationship between the audience and the dancers goes through many different stages. Someone seeing my work for the first time may or may not pick up on that.

I was a dancer first, which made me realize how much I loved performing.

I have a bit of a frustrated dancer in me.

My mother was a dancer, so I like to use the body as part of the instrument of acting.