Dancers Quotes · Page 3

Dancers aren't made of their technique, but their passion.

— Agnes de Mille

You should have go-go dancers and happenings. And that would be so cool.

— Abe Vigoda

Actors are born, good actors are trained. Dancers are born, good dancers are trained.

— Mithun Chakraborty

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

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

I used to rely too much on arrangements and production, things like dancers and explosions.

— Thalia

As a dancer I feel fulfilled and would want all dancers to be proud of themselves.

— Shakti Mohan

My sisters and my brother were all very much into music. A couple of them were dancers.

— Denny Laine

By the way, dancers are not human beings. How can you be human and do what they do?

— Alesha Dixon

Dancers are always striving for perfection. A great dancer never achieves it: you always want to do another turn, a higher jump,a…

— Abby Lee Miller

The Kirov is a great ballet company because it has so many terrific dancers, but it doesn't always know what to do…

— Robert Gottlieb

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…

— Lenny Kravitz

They improve greatly, and sometimes I go and see the performances they do and I am consciously aware that there isn't enough…

— Siobhan Davies

I do drag. Just because my drag is not the drag of Creme Fatale or Holy McGrail doesn't mean it's less drag.…

— Michelle Visage

My songs aren't bubble gum pop dance songs and I don't have background dancers on every single song.

— Avril Lavigne

All of my friends are really good dancers, which was initially why I never danced - we'd go out, and they would…

— Chet Faker

Dancers, you know, they have pain everywhere: ankles in the morning, or back or neck or ribs or knees or the muscles.…

— Sylvie Guillem

We put too much on contemporary dancers. A lot of them cannot change styles; a lot of them can't do anything else…

— Nigel Lythgoe

A lot of professional dancers become professional when they turn 15 or 16 years old, when they're still children. So you've trained…

— Amanda Schull

Dancers work and they work and they work, and they master their skills so far that improvisation just comes flowing out of…

— Pete Carroll

Ballet in September used to be dead as a dodo. Now, with City Ballet's ingenious decision to give us four weeks of…

— Robert Gottlieb

There is something about dance that is actually a great tension. There is something that is incredibly freeing about dancing for dancers…

— George Nolfi

I couldn't get into classical companies in the U.S. and Canada. I would make the cuts in auditions and would be one…

— Michaela DePrince

'Eclipse' is a concept piece, and its concept centers on 36 large light bulbs strung from above in a geometrical pattern and…

— Robert Gottlieb

My 'Strictly' experience has taken my admiration for the skill and stamina of dancers to a whole new level. They really are…

— Angela Rippon

Dancers dance through their pain I shrink from mine.

— Mason Cooley

“In this room full of dancers, why do you still sit?”

— Hardesh

I feel the way India has loved and supported dancers is incredible.

— Shakti Mohan

“Oh, the best dancers know/what grace/every stumble/contains.”

— Em Claire

I wouldn't say that I am one of the greatest dancers, but I am really quite good at what I do.

— Lady Gaga

My choreography suits men very well, and the women who can do it are damn hard, strong dancers.

— Paula Abdul

A person can be danced. In all continents the dancers carry little children on their shoulders.

— Curt Sachs

I find that dancers are only well trained in ballet these days.

— Twyla Tharp

I'd say the only time I ever get nervous is around great ballet dancers or people I really admire.

— Dita Von Teese

I know that dancers, especially ballet dancers, can't do it forever.

— Kelli Berglund

I don't try to tell the dancers exactly what a dance means before they do it.

— Martha Graham

“We would all be better off dead, useless eaters of the lotus that we are.”

— Michael Moorcock

“Dancing is creating a sculpture that is visible only for a moment.”

— Erol Ozan

I don't ever use dancers, and when I do, it's literally, like, four break dancers.

— Rita Ora

Modern dancers should be doing things no one else is doing, and it should come from the gut.

— Twyla Tharp

At our most primitive we are storytellers and dancers.

— Anne Lamott