Dancer Quotes · Page 18

“You need to present yourself as a twenty-year-old pole dancer.”

— Sarah Morgan

After 'The Blues Brothers,' I wanted to do a good musical number with real dancers and shoot it correctly.

— John Landis

The lips are closed, for the dancer has plenty of other voices at his service.

— Lucian

If I was tall and blonde, I might have been a dancer or singer.

— Agnes Varda

“A fit, healthy body—that is the best fashion statement”

— Jess C Scott

I've always been interested in dance and want to be a trained contemporary dancer.

— Radhika Apte

I am thankful that 'Jhalak' made me a professional dancer now from just a 'barat' dancer.

— Ashish Sharma

To see the clothes in movement like that, to create for dancers, is special.

— Isabel Toledo

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

My father was a promoter of Fresh Fest, and they needed an opening act. He got me a slot as a dancer.…

— Jermaine Dupri

I think people don't often realize how much goes into being a male dancer. It's athletic and it's hard. It's not just…

— Amanda Schull

I have this ridiculous chip on my shoulder, having been a dancer, that I feel like I really ought to be able…

— Amanda Schull

Storyless is not abstract. Two dancers on the stage are enough material for a story; for me, they are already a story…

— George Balanchine

I could say now at 66, yeah, I was a fabulous dancer. I was really terrific, you know. But I was always…

— Judith Jamison

I don't have many actors in my family, but I do have a Great Uncle that is a film-maker in Philadelphia, and…

— Aubrey Plaza

The philosopher's soul dwells in his head, the poet's soul is in his heart; the singer's soul lingers about his throat, but…

— Anonymous

I used to love to see Willie Pep and Ray Robinson. To me, the epitome of a great athlete is a great…

— Emanuel Steward

To me, this acquirement of nervous, physical, and emotional concentration is the one element possessed to the highest degree by the truly…

— Martha Graham

The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than…

— Doris Humphrey

I believe you have to start with a craft; you don't just start with a dream. You've got to put a lot…

— Goldie Hawn

The discipline that ballet requires is obsessive. And only the ones who dedicate their whole lives are able to make it. Your…

— Penelope Cruz

I like the line leading up to that: "I made your daughter the lead dancer, and you're not committed!" It's how people…

— Beth Grant

Rhythm is born in all of us. To be a desirable dancing partner, you don't have to do all the intricate fancy…

— Ginger Rogers

Her professors were astonished by her leaps of thought, by the finesse and elegance of her insights. She arrived at hypotheses by…

— Deborah Eisenberg

I am a singer and dancer, and I've been perfecting it for a lot of years.

— Tony Danza

I'm thought of as a cool, unemotional dancer, but inside I'm not.

— Suzanne Farrell

The dancer will not belong to any nation but to all humanity.

— Isadora Duncan

Dean Magraw so liquid, lyrical and effortless it's like listening to a dancer.

— Steve Tibbetts

If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts.

— Ritchie Blackmore

I don't understand why no one says 'I want to become a dancer.'

— Shakti Mohan

My mom was a dancer, my dad's a singer and I've always had that kind of music in my life.

— Elvis Stojko

I liked to read but, being a dancer, I didn't have a lot of time to read.

— Suzanne Farrell

Oh, God! That boy moves in a very exceptional way. That's the greatest dancer of the century.

— Fred Astaire

My mother was a dancer, so I like to use the body as part of the instrument of acting.

— Nicolas Cage

All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.

— Al Pacino

I never wanted to be a dancer. It's true! I wanted to be a shortstop for the Pittsburgh Pirates.

— Gene Kelly

Dancers, like all performing artists, like nothing better than to be challenged.

— Karen Kain

Not everyone is a good dancer but you just have to enjoy doing it. Dance as if no one is watching.

— Sanya Malhotra

“The nation that honors a dancer more than a scholar is no more a nation.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

Of two sisters one is always the watcher, one the dancer.

— Louise Glück