Dancers Quotes · Page 2

Professional dancers are known for their barely-there costumes.

— Cheryl Burke

I've always worked very hard. I think dancers always do.

— Cyd Charisse

I love to have a band, but dancers are my priority because I really want a show, you know?

— Zara Larsson

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

— Erol Ozan

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

— Michael Moorcock

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

— Martha Graham

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

— Dita Von Teese

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

— Twyla Tharp

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

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

When I first moved to New York, I was friends with a lot of dancers - people from Merce Cunningham's company and…

— Lee Ranaldo

Most dancers have a young body. This is part discipline and part desire, because just sitting around makes one feel sluggish.

— Cyd Charisse

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

'ABCD' is an out-and-out dance film. I also dance in the film. I must say you would see better dancers than me…

— Prabhu Deva

I'm the only person on Earth who's not afraid to admit that black people are better dancers than white people! I said…

— Carlos Mencia

For 20 years, I've been running an institute in Chennai where serious dancers from Kerala come with aspirations of becoming professional dancers.

— Shobana

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

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

'Empty Moves' is elegantly and coolly inventive. Two pairs of dancers shadow each other in slow, deliberate rearrangements and manipulations of legs…

— Robert Gottlieb

I was a dancer from a young age. My parents were dancers; we were taken to a lot of ballet as children.…

— Elizabeth Debicki

When I first moved to New York, I wanted to be a dancer. I danced professionally for years, living a hand-to-mouth existence.…

— Madonna Ciccone

When I started off with 'Dance India Dance,' even the TV show people thought it won't be accepted. But with the talent…

— Terence Lewis

As a dancer, you really try to stay true to whatever the choreographer/artistic director is giving you. So, now the shoe is…

— Judith Jamison

My dancers must be able to do anything, and I don't care if they are black or white or purple or green.…

— Alvin Ailey

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

— Kelli Berglund

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

— Lady Gaga

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

— Shakti Mohan

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

— Hardesh

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

— Shakti Mohan

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

— Mithun Chakraborty

I like dancers who demand of themselves to achieve, not just technically but also as performers.

— Arlene Phillips

Dancers are a work of art - they are the canvas on which their work is painted.

— Patrick Duffy

Ballet dancers are among the greatest living athletes.

— Justin Peck

I watch Beyonce videos while I'm working out. The dancers' bodies are so inspiring!

— Minka Kelly

I love the physicality of instruments, and instruments as objects, like dancers are bodies.

— Bryce Dessner

For ballet dancers, style is about melding personal expression with physical form.

— Mary Helen Bowers

There are dancers who put themselves on strict diets, but I'm not one of them.

— Michaela DePrince

Dancers don’t think about things; they just do them.

— Heather Morris

The people that have inspired me the most were dancers and choreographers.

— Jillian Hervey

At our most primitive we are storytellers and dancers.

— Anne Lamott