Dancer Quotes

By patting somebody on the back, a boy or a girl, a professional dancer, male, female, it really makes people feel good and I know it certainly made me feel good.

Maybe I'd be a storyboard artist. Graphic novel/comic book artist. Backup dancer. Singer. It would be cool to focus on one of these full time. But I like seeing them all intertwine.

In the New Hebrides, any dancer making a mistake was assaulted, wounded, and possibly killed by bowmen posted to keep careful watch for inaccuracies in rituals.

You've got your Justins who have all the back flipping dancers and stuff, and then you've got Lemar, and he totally moves you without having to do all of that, and he's gorgeous.

I grew up in a crazy, gypsy-like household of actors, dancers and loony Broadway people. It was their way of life, and I didn't know anything else.

It's a treat to beat your feet on the Mississippi mud.

You...are...a...fridge...with wings,' Fang ground out, punching an Eraser hard with every word. 'We're...freaking...ballet...dancers.

I closed my eyes to watch tiny dancers like jeweled birds cross the dark screen of my eyelids.

I was very personable and outgoing and was friends with most everybody in my class but I was a diehard dancer so I was constantly at dance classes and working toward my passion of dance.

An extraordinary dancer, whose blend of tautness and buoyancy is not only exciting but also suggestive of clarity and immediacy with which dance can communicate deep, conflicting emotions.

I trained as a ballet dancer - well, I started when I was two and a half, and was serious about it from when I was eight until I was 18.

I grew up always wanting to be a dancer and when I went to New York, I fell in love with the idea of performing in all ways.

The people that have inspired me the most were dancers and choreographers.

I smoke crack. I get all my dancers together and we do a prayer.

I danced in a Lifetime film. We shot in Canada and I got to work with a lot of the dancers who do So You Think You Can Dance, Canada.

Arthur Murray taught me dancing in a hurry.

I like to dance, but I'm not a dancer.

Every dancer lives on the threshold of chucking it.

Participants in dance, both dancers and viewers, may experience catharsis and develop a sense of mastery or self-discovery.

If you just work on your upper body, you're not going to be a full-range dancer or performer. You've got to work in all directions as much as you possibly can.

What's a dancer's worst enemy? Sometimes it's age, but sometimes it's the dancer themselves.

Dancers, like all performing artists, like nothing better than to be challenged.

I grew up dancing, and my ballet teacher was literally a drill sergeant; she was so strict and so scary. And it made me a better dancer.

I've always been athletic and a dancer, so I love doing fight choreography.

I had wanted to be a dancer when I was younger. But at some point I figured out I was a better singer.

As much as I love to dance, and I still take class, aerobics and that sort of thing, and I still move very well and all of that - I'm really not a dancer anymore.

I used to get made fun of a lot for being a male dancer, especially growing up in Boston. Kids are terrible, they don't realize how heavy words can be.

I'm not a big dancer!

For me, a dancer is part of an artist’s entertainment - “backup dancer” isn’t even in my vocabulary.

My peer would have to be dark-haired and handsome, a wonderful dancer... and he would never ask permission before he kissed me." -Lillian Bowman

He moves like a dancer.

I disagree with the idea that modern dancers are cold or unemotional.

I wanted to be a dancer my whole life. And when I gave it up to act, I always had a really sad part of myself that missed it and missed performing and missed being physical in that way.

When I was a dancer, I felt this great sense of knowing my body and being in my body, and I think it's really easy as women to lose that and not really be one and loving it.

I know I'm not the greatest singer or dancer, but that doesn't interest me, I'm interested in being provocative and pushing people's buttons.

I became a dancer late and an actor late.

As a dancer, obviously, we are all inspired by Michael Jackson, and I always looked up to Gene Kelly. He was a bigger version of Fred Astaire, and he was amazing as well.

I'm not a trained dancer in the slightest.

His movements were so graceful that I wondered if he had been a dancer, but his words betrayed to me that his fluid gestures were those of a trained killer.

I’m a dancer who cannot dance.

I really wanted to be a dancer, but I just wasn't good enough to do that so that didn't happen.

Each time a dancer moves devoutly or a composer faithfully searches the silence for the veiled melodies, eternity is engaged.

If you've got hips, you can't be a gymnast or dancer. That ruled me out.

Dancers are kept in a perpetual state of pre-puberty, and for young girls in particular, that type of pressure breeds insecurities.

I was born with rhythm but I don't know if - I'm not a break dancer.

My dancers are the real stars.

Ideally if I settled down with a wife I would love to form my own troupe of mini dancers!

Backup dancers are completely respectable. They're the studio musicians of dance.

I will never be the best dancer or artist. I will be growing until the day I retire.

Ballet was exactly what I was searching for, but my environment definitely made me the dancer and the person that I am today. And the Hip-Hop culture was a big part of it.