Dancer Quotes · Page 22

I was bullied about everything, from the way I looked to the fact that my father had been a dancer.

— Paul Bettany

“Dance to inspire, dance to freedom, life is about experiences so dance and let yourself become free.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

As a dancer, I was always the physical comedy girl. I love it so much.

— Anne Fletcher

“Through synergy of intellect, artistry and grace came into existence the blessing of a dancer.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

I love composing songs for Hrithik because he is a talented dancer.

— Rajesh Roshan

I am a professional dancer, so picking up dance steps was like brushing my teeth.

— Hazel Keech

I am a foodie at heart and dancer/actress by choice. For me, being fit is a priority.

— Mouni Roy

I look at the dancers and I get the inspiration for the work from them.

— Graeme Murphy

Well, I took ballet for many, many years, so my whole childhood really revolved around dance class. I grew up around dance;…

— Amy Sherman-Palladino

As a dancer, you dance and you shut up. You don't open your mouth. I started using the media as psychiatrists, I…

— Sergei Polunin

If we want to be musicians, dancers or sportspeople, we can download a certain amount and watch DVDs and read books, but…

— Tenzin Palmo

I once called EastEnders' Patsy Palmer 'a scrubber in a Puffa jacket who cries all the time' on 'Strictly.' She said I…

— Craig Revel Horwood

In the New Hebrides, any dancer making a mistake was assaulted, wounded, and possibly killed by bowmen posted to keep careful watch…

— Jamake Highwater

I've been an actor since I was 12 and my dream role is Sally Bowles in 'Cabaret.' What's crazy is that I'm…

— Emily Hampshire

If you think too much about being original, you're gonna be stuck some day. The most stupid or easy movements can be…

— Menno Simons

Say, what abridgement have you for this evening? What masque, what music? How shall we beguile The lazy time if not with…

— William Shakespeare

It's funny because a lot of people that know me as a dancer, don't know that I'm a singer, and a lot…

— Naima Adedapo

...and our footsteps rang and echoed till it sounded like the room was full of dancers, the house calling up all the…

— Tana French

Dance is so prominent, now more than it's been before, but I still feel like there's this void that needs to be…

— Haley Lu Richardson

Madonna is a pro. I don't like her and have no respect for her but- I don't think she should be called…

— Jon Fishman

I did do a little research. I went to a couple really fantastic strip clubs with really talented dancers, just in terms…

— Megalyn Echikunwoke

Mads [Mikkelsen] and I have a really epic brawl - a week shoot, lots of rehearsal - and he was just delightful.…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

Could you do such things when you were a dancer?' Tara asks her, as Tsukiko pulls a leg up impossibly far over…

— Erin Morgenstern

I feel like people used to leave their homes and go to their local theatre, and they used to watch ballet dancers…

— Laura Benanti

I try to imitate on the piano the leaps in space a dancer makes.

— Cecil Taylor

Dance is like life. It exists as you are flitting through it, and when it's over, it's done.

— Jerome Robbins

I'm not an egomaniac like a lot of people say. But I am the world's best dancer, that's for sure.

— Michael Flatley

“I would not know what the spirit of a philosopher might wish more to be than a good dancer.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I really wanted to be a dancer but that just wasn't in the cards for me.

— Taylor Russell

Someone need not be perfect to be a great dancer - feeling a soul is more important than what the body can…

— Marcia Haydee

My goal has always been to be a principal dancer with ABT.

— Misty Copeland

This journey from non-dancer to dancer has given me a lot of self-confidence and inner strength. I feel like a different person.

— Ashish Sharma

People tend to look at dancers like we are these little jewels, little cardboard cut outs, and yet we have blood and…

— Susan Jaffe

I'm still trying to change the way people see black dancers that we can become delicate dancers, that we can be a…

— Michaela DePrince

Sing like no one is listening, LOVE LIKE YOU'VE NEVER BEEN HURT, dance like nobody's watcbing, and live like it's heaven on…

— Anonymous

From the age of 12 when I decided to dance in high school, everyone was saying, 'Oh, you're a dancer,' and there…

— A. J. Pritchard

For a performer, passion is far more important than technical skills. If a dancer's leg isn't at a perfect angle, I can…

— Louise Nurding

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

— Buddy Wakefield

I started as a hoofer and all-round chorus girl. I did my first ballet lesson when I was three, then trained as…

— Caroline Quentin

The diagonal gives a three-dimensional feeling to dancers that cannot be achieved when they are only front and back. On the diagonal,…

— Lucinda Childs