Dancers Quotes · Page 3

At our most primitive we are storytellers and dancers.

— Anne Lamott

I don't date dancers, but I've always wanted to teach guys how to dance.

— Briana Evigan

I disagree with the idea that modern dancers are cold or unemotional.

— Lucinda Childs

I sent 200, 300 of the clothes that I had made, and the dancers chose what they liked.

— Issey Miyake

Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.

— Agnes de Mille

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

— Karen Kain

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

— Isabel Toledo

You always want to please your choreographer, director. Dancers are just that way.

— Chita Rivera

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

— Shobana

Ballet Hispanico is far from Irish, and, though it has strong dancers, its Spanishness has always left me unconvinced.

— Robert Gottlieb

Show dancing stood very well on its own a long time ago with dancers like Bill Robinson and Marilyn Miller.

— Ann Reinking

Dancers are stripped enough onstage. You don't have to know more about them than they've given you already.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

I found I loved musicals as much or more than the pure dance world. I also think I became tired of dancing…

— Patricia Birch

Europe is great, especially for dance. It's a lot more accepting than the U.S. - there I struggled with the fact that…

— Michaela DePrince

“I know exactly what Einstein meant when he said, "Dancers are the athletes of God." You three look like angels. I can't…

— Kirsty Murray

Dancers are working their bodies just like a marathon runner would, and you have to eat to make it through a three-hour…

— Darcey Bussell

Same with anyone who's been flying for years and loves it still... we're part of a world we deeply love. Just as…

— Richard Bach

I don't just work with these kids to make them good tumblers or good dancers. I'm working with them to make them…

— Jesse White

Dancehall has always had a homophobic problem, but you go to dance parties in Jamaica, and some of the biggest dancers are…

— Diplo

When you are part of a massive TV show like Strictly,' it's not just about the professional dancers and celebrities taking part,…

— Shirley Ballas

I have all these opinions about the dancers but they should be kept to myself. No one consults me. I keep asking…

— Daryl Morey

I think it would be fair to say that most female dancers have dealt with, whether it's an extreme, or minor complex…

— Amanda Schull

With dancers, we are all the time dancing with somebody else. It happens often that you meet a new dancer or you…

— Blanca Li

I was one of those dancers who they say wants to feel the floor through their pointe shoes. I would end up…

— Margaret Qualley

It's exciting for me as a male to see other guys wanting to be ice dancers.

— Scott Moir

I haven't had a family, but I don't think of that as a sacrifice: my dancers are my family.

— Judith Jamison

I actually build my dreams around the dancers I've got in my company.

— Graeme Murphy

“Talent & Skills are useless & won’t get you anywhere, without lot of practice, commitment & prioritization”

— De philosopher DJ Kyos

I realize that dancers have worked long and hard for standards. However, on occasion, I think that it's good to examine one's…

— Twyla Tharp

The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind. From…

— Agnes de Mille

On a TV show, for instance, dancers have to be paid for a week and a half rehearsal time. So unless they're…

— Toni Basil

You can usually tell how healthy a ballet company is by the degree of your interest in the middle ranks of the…

— Robert Gottlieb

We got a gay following around the time we started using camp dancers who were stripped to the waist in cycling shorts…

— Keren Woodward

As long as there are dancers around who love to dance, there will be an Alvin Ailey American Dance Company. We miss…

— Judith Jamison

Someone is dead. Even the trees know it, those poor old dancers who come on lewdly, all pea-green scarfs and spine pole.

— Anne Sexton

Item song dancers like Silk Smitha and Jayamalini have become irrelevant. The heroines are doing those dances themselves.

— Radha Ravi

Dancers have always been a kind of background image, we've always danced behind an artist or we've danced in a movie behind…

— Lacey Schwimmer

America now has more and better dancers than they have ever had in the history of the country, but that won't account…

— Gene Kelly

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

— Buddy Wakefield

It's expensive to get studio space and dancers. My whole first three years, I was sneaking around in the studios and getting…

— Justin Peck