Dancer Quotes
Being a functioning alcoholic is kind of like being a paraplegic lap dancer: You can do it, just not as well as the others, really.
I love women. I love all the bright and attractive people and things of this world, the flame and also the moth, the dancer and the dance.
Hold me closer tiny dancer, count the headlights on the highway. Lay me down in sheets of linen, you had a busy day today.
I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as a songwriter, or only as a tap dancer. I like to move around.
I was a gymnast for many years before I was a dancer, so it comes in pretty handy when I do stunts.
I don't think of myself as a dancer. I think of myself as a singer-actress who moves really well.
Some people say I'm obnoxious and lazy, that I'm uneducated, that my opinion means nothing, but I know I'm a real good dancer.
When the Negro musician or dancer swings the blues, he is fulfilling the same fundamental existential requirement that determines the mission of the poet, the priest and the medicine man.
If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts.
If I had an extra 20 or 50 years physically, I could have been the dancer of my dreams. But I never became that dancer.
People strangely revere dance. They see it as another world, and dancers are somehow mysterious - just because they don't speak.
All dancers are, by and large, a photographer's dream. They communicate with their bodies and they are trained to be completely responsive to a collaborative situation.
Someone need not be perfect to be a great dancer - feeling a soul is more important than what the body can do.
As a dancer I couldn't outdance Ginger Rogers or Eleanor Powell. As a singer I'm no rival to Doris Day. As an actress I don't take myself seriously...I'm the girl the truck drivers love.
Being one with life is being one with Now. You then realize that you don't live your life, but life lives you. Life is the dancer, and you are the dance.
Hoop Dancer is a rendering of my understanding of the process by which one enters into timelessness -- that place where one is whole.
Gene Kelly was a great dancer and I was lucky to be in 'Singin' in the Rain.' He was my teacher when I was 17 years old, when he was 37 years old. He taught me everything.
If I can play one note and make you cry, then that's better than those fancy dancers playing twenty notes.
One of our problems is our sense of discipline - dancers have an extraordinary sense of self-discipline.
There are a lot of things that dancers can do that actors cannot and actors can do that dancers cannot.
Actors are born, good actors are trained. Dancers are born, good dancers are trained.
Maybe its a generational thing, but I never wanted to be the best black dancer in the world. I just wanted to be the best.
Just because you are an architect and make decent buildings does not mean that you can suddenly become a set designer for one of the best avant-garde dancers in the world.
I was always a singer and a dancer, and I always wanted to be an actress. For me, it's all just one thing.
If I were born in other generation, I would be a singer rapper, dancing is also...I was famous as a good dancer. My dancing skill was just hided by other members better skill.
When you're a dancer, you start with the basics. You don't all of a sudden do a grand jete and pirouette. You start with first position, second, third.
I have forgiven all the old actors for dying. A new one comes on with the same lines, like large white growths, in his mouth. The dancers come on from the wings, perfectly mated.
It takes ten years, usually, to make a dancer. It takes ten years of handling the instrument, handling the material with which you are dealing, for you to know it completely.
The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for this school of affected grace and toe walking.
A cathedral, a wave of a storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped.
When I first moved to New York I wanted to be a dancer, I danced professionally for years, living a hand-to-mouth existence.
I grew up with classical music when I was a ballet dancer. Now when I have to prepare an emotional scene, to cry or whatever, I listen to sonatas. Vivaldi and stuff. It's just beautiful to me.
I haven't had a family, but I don't think of that as a sacrifice: my dancers are my family.
Now I want to become an artist, rather than one thing, like a dancer, or a movie star, or a choreographer.
Western dance begins with its feet firmly planted on the ground whereas Butoh begins with a dance wherein the dancer tries in vain to find his feet
Due to a big bust in Cuba, my father's business suffered badly, so I was free to choose my own career. I became a professional dancer, and I went on the road and started making real money.
The life of a dancer is not for everyone. You really have to have some thick skin. You really have to know what you're going into and how competitive the field is.
To express what is the most moral, healthful and beautiful in art this is the mission of the dancer, and to this I dedicate my life.
