Dancer Quotes

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.

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.

The moon has become a dancer at this festival of LOVE.

The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.

It's not that I wanted to be an actor; it's that I didn't want to be a dancer! I was trained in traditional Chinese dance, and after working so hard it seemed unfair to just disappear into a group.

Dancers are stripped enough onstage. You don't have to know more about them than they've given you already.

If he had had all Peru in his pocket, he would certainly have given it to this dancer; but Gringoire had not Peru in his pocket; and besides, America was not yet discovered. (p. 66)

I was a Ukrainian folk dancer in my teens, and I toured the country in 1991, shortly before the break-up of the Soviet Union.

The lips are closed, for the dancer has plenty of other voices at his service.

A long time ago, when I was a young dancer in New York City, I fell in love with Jimmy Dean and he fell in love with me.

I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.

But I still show up for gentleman practice in the company of lead dancers, hoping their grace will get stuck in my shoes.

The domain of the ballet dancer is not earth but air.

We are a very typical Spanish family - a bullfighter, an actress, a flamenco dancer and singer!

I went away when I was 9 to a ballet school. I thought I wanted to be a dancer, but eight years of ballet cured me of that.

There are three steps you have to complete to become a professional dancer: learn to dance, learn to perform, and learn how to cope with injuries.

Egyptian President Sadat had a belly dancer entertain President Nixon at a state dinner. Mr. Nixon was really impressed. He hadn't seen contortions like that since Rose Mary Woods.

People call me the painter of dancers, but I really wish to capture movement itself.

My mom was a dancer, my dad's a singer and I've always had that kind of music in my life.

I actually wanted to be an exotic dancer, but that didn't work out so I thought I'd take on acting.

I have never sung a whole song on my own before and I am not the best dancer in the world, but I would rather try and fall than not not try at all.

A lot of my joy this year has been to give away awards to young people, no matter of race, creed or color, because they were a terrific violinist or a terrific dancer.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

The mob, when they are gazing at a dancer on the slack rope, naturally writhe and twist and balance their own bodies, as they see him do.

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

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.

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?

My favorite dancer is Sylvie Guillem.

I'm not a singer, and I'm not a brilliant dancer.

I was a ballet dancer and that kind of bled into musical theater. I was constantly in rehearsal for one thing or another.

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.

Into a dancer you have grown from the seeds somebody else has sown.

I very much like dance and dancers.

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.

My wife is the dancer, but I certainly know how to sing.

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 think it's useful to experience other types of dance and other cultures, and the life of a classical dancer these days is certainly not all tutus! So experience of other dance forms is a good idea.

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