Dancer Quotes · Page 15

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

— Shah Asad Rizvi

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

— Paul Bettany

I really wanted to make it as a ballet dancer to make my mom proud. But it didn't happen.

— Tracy Anderson

It is no doubt possible to fly--but first you must know how to dance like an angel.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

— Jerome Robbins

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

— Graeme Murphy

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

— Cecil Taylor

The superhuman power which exhiliration and hypnosis bring to a dancer is shown especially clearly in his almost inconceivable staying powers in…

— Curt Sachs

My body is very different from most of the dancers I dance with. My hair is different than most I dance with.…

— Misty Copeland

Jared told her he used to be an exotic dancer in San Francisco.' 'My body is a gift from God,' Jared said…

— Sarah Rees Brennan

My mum taught me that you don't have to do things the 'normal' way. I wanted to be an actress and a…

— Fearne Cotton

I was embarrassed that I even wanted to become an actress because coming from L.A., with two older sisters in the business…

— Elizabeth Olsen

I feel like in Atlanta, if you were a female dancer, the more you can dance like the boys, the more respect…

— Janina Gavankar

You open a section of 'The New York Times,' and there's a review or a story on a choreographer or a dancer,…

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

I grew up in a crazy, gypsy-like household of actors, dancers and loony Broadway people. It was their way of life, and…

— James Badge Dale

The dance, just as the performance of the actor, is kinesthetic art, art of the muscle sense. The awareness of tension and…

— Rudolf Arnheim

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'm Exie and despite what you may hear I am the best dancer here. No one else compares. So, don't even think…

— Jennifer Loren

Turn around, and the people you thought you knew might change. Your little boy might now live half a world away. Your…

— Jodi Picoult

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

Wrestling used to be interesting. There was a bit of sham involved, of course, but there was some real wrestling involved. They're…

— Shane MacGowan

I will make an average man into an average dancer, provided he be passably well made. I will teach him how to…

— Jean-Georges Noverre

Your soul is a seeker, lover and artist; shape-shifting through archetypal energy, between your darkness and fields of light, your body and…

— Gabrielle Roth

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

— Mouni Roy

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

— Marcia Haydee

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

— Taylor Russell

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

— Misty Copeland

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

No one is born a dancer. You have to want it more than anything.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

I am a dancer first. That is why I don't accept all roles that come my way.

— Shamna Kasim

I think by now everyone knows I am a terrible dancer, but I am an equally terrible singer.

— Andi Dorfman

I did community theater in Georgia and called myself a ballet dancer.

— Laura Slade Wiggins

I closed my eyes to watch tiny dancers like jeweled birds cross the dark screen of my eyelids.

— Janet Fitch

Diaghilev was the first to notice good character dancers and that sort of thing.

— Ninette de Valois

“O body swayed to music, O brightening glance, How can we know the dancer from the dance?”

— William Butler Yeats

The actual cheerleaders in our film are all Broadway dancers.

— Brooke Langton

Any man who looks like a sissy while dancing is just a lousy dancer.

— Gene Kelly

I will never give up my dream of being a prima ballerina and backup dancer for Justin Timberlake!

— Haley Webb

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

— Caroline Flack