I always considered myself a dancer before anything else.

When I first moved to L.A. as a dancer, all I wanted to do was dance. I never even considered trying to act or…

— Cris Judd

As a dancer, obviously, we are all inspired by Michael Jackson, and I always looked up to Gene Kelly. He was a bigger version…

— Maksim Chmerkovskiy

“Dance is an art in space and time. The object of the dancer is to obliterate that.”

— Merce Cunningham

I trained as a dancer and did all that kind of stuff. And as a dancer, pressure's a good thing.

— Caroline Flack

I wanted to be a dancer my whole life. And when I gave it up to act, I always had a really sad part…

— Lyndsy Fonseca

That's what all art's about - a sense of moving away from boundaries that you can't in real life. Like a dancer is always…

— Kate Bush

So I'm studying ballet every day and really training so people will see me as a ballet dancer, which no one's seen before.

— Sutton Foster

I am not the first straight dancer or the last.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

I have always wanted to tell stories. Even as a classical dancer, I revel in telling stories through my dance.

— Sobhita Dhulipala

There's no thinking involved in my choreography... I don't work through images or ideas. I work through the body... If the dancer dances, which…

— Merce Cunningham

To chase the glowing hours with flying feet.

— Lord Byron

I'm a horrible dancer, but I wanted to record songs that made me want to dance.

— Chris Lane

I'm not a dancer. Never took a dance class.

— Chrishell Stause

If you dance, you dance because you have to. Every dancer hurts, you know.

— Katherine Dunham

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…

— Deborah Bull