Dancers Quotes

A Nation's character is typified by its dancers.

— Confucius

In a fiddler's house all are dancers

— Proverb

Ballet dancers really know how to enter a room.

— Thelma Schoonmaker

This is the strange thing: Dancers don't age.

— Twyla Tharp

Dancers are the unsung heroes Broadway musicals.

— Stephen Schwartz

Dancers are both athletes and artists.

— Margot Fonteyn

Always the question for dancers is: Can we fly?

— Jean-Christophe Maillot

Dancers are the messengers of the gods.

— Martha Graham

I love to have a band, but dancers are my priority because I really want a show, you know?

— Zara Larsson

Here's to the dancers who love being inspired by others to dance harder and push themselves more.

— Anonymous

Real dancers are the ones who can hear the music in their soul.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I love the noise of my wooden clogs on my wooden floor. Dancers wear clogs. They're good for you.

— Carine Roitfeld

Professional dancers are known for their barely-there costumes.

— Cheryl Burke

I've always worked very hard. I think dancers always do.

— Cyd Charisse

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

— Michael Flatley

Compared to professional dancers, I'm obviously not professional but I do love to dance so much.

— Saara Aalto

'ABCD' is an out-and-out dance film. I also dance in the film. I must say you would see better dancers than me…

— Prabhu Deva

He stared up at the stars: and it seemed to him then that they were dancers, stately and graceful, performing a dance…

— Neil Gaiman

I'm the only person on Earth who's not afraid to admit that black people are better dancers than white people! I said…

— Carlos Mencia

All women are born dancers in the sense that natural movement becomes their body and grows out of their instinctive feeling for…

— Nelly Mazloum

I still can't believe I danced with Gene Kelly. How lucky am I that I've been in movies where I've danced with…

— Olivia Newton-John

“Like all dancers, so much of her body fat had been converted to muscle that she needed to eat regularly.”

— Christopher Fowler

The fact that black young dancers consider me to be a role model is incredible. I hope that they can continue to…

— Michaela DePrince

He was one of those earnest, persevering dancers--the kind that have taken twelve correspondence lessons.

— Anonymous

I don't just work with these kids to make them good tumblers or good dancers. I'm working with them to make them…

— Jesse White

My dancers must be able to do anything, and I don't care if they are black or white or purple or green.…

— Alvin Ailey

Same with anyone who's been flying for years and loves it still... we're part of a world we deeply love. Just as…

— Richard Bach

When you are part of a massive TV show like Strictly,' it's not just about the professional dancers and celebrities taking part,…

— Shirley Ballas

Dancehall has always had a homophobic problem, but you go to dance parties in Jamaica, and some of the biggest dancers are…

— Diplo

I think reality TV for dancers has changed for the better. There are more opportunities and the platforms that we are being…

— Laurieann Gibson

As a dancer, you really try to stay true to whatever the choreographer/artistic director is giving you. So, now the shoe is…

— Judith Jamison

“The thing is, baby, you don’t have long,’ he said. ‘We don’t have long. Dancers are like dragonflies – in one day,…

— Eva Rice

Ballet dancers are a self-chosen elite. To survive and surmount years of disciplinary preparation and seasons of even more arduous performance requires…

— Lincoln Kirstein

When I left the theater… I was thinking that I’d seen a classic of American dance. It confers a mythic dimension on…

— Arlene Croce

When a dancer comes onstage, he is not just a blank slate that the choreographer has written on. Behind him he has…

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

There are likewise three kinds of dancers: first, those who consider dancing as a sort of gymnastic drill, made up of impersonal…

— Isadora Duncan

“At Padovani Beach the dance hall is open every day. And in that huge rectangular box with its entire side open to…

— Albert Camus

The defect in wisdom and taste which exists among the majority of dancers is due to the bad education which they generally…

— Jean-Georges Noverre

“I am overwhelmed. I am the most discomfited of dancers. Simultaneously chillingly I am certain that the wedding guests sense it to…

— Carolyn Baugh

So many dancers feel that what they look like is more important than who they are. This is a real danger for…

— Alonzo King