Dancers Quotes · Page 3

Dancers are allowed, indeed encouraged, to remain children forever.

— Twyla Tharp

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

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

— Patrick Duffy

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

— Arlene Phillips

Backup dancers are completely respectable. They're the studio musicians of dance.

— Mike Birbiglia

“Maybe the whole point of the dancers is just to bring a little wonder into our lives.”

— Nicola Yoon

Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.

— Martha Graham

I knew what my scripts would say before I opened them: 'Enter Conchita.' I played handmaidens, Indian squaws, and Mexican dancers.

— Rita Moreno

I'm very smart when it comes to choosing dancers and trying to show the world that there's a whole lot of dancing…

— Judith Jamison

I think there's something about dancers, they never ever forget where they come from. They never get grand, no matter what success…

— Ruthie Henshall

“You can never kill the spirit of an artist. They will always rewrite their resurrection and paint an eternal sunset with a…

— Shannon L. Alder

“When it was all over, the dancers who had been long in Shawn's service were given either a substantial (for those days)…

— Walter Terry

Well, I swim quite a bit, and ride horseback. That's supposed to be bad for dancers, but I don't care - I…

— Cyd Charisse

I've been around dancers a lot in my career, working on the fringes as an observer, but actually being part of it…

— Angela Rippon

Every act I see, their whole act is choreographed. I'm sick of seeing these dancers. The only reason they have them is…

— Ronnie Spector

I don't like teaching, because it's so repetitive - especially the beginning of class, which is always more or less the same…

— Merce Cunningham

So many people report to be contemporary dancers, and they're not. They are sort of jazz dancers that feel like they're throwing…

— Nigel Lythgoe

I would advise dancers, musicians and others in the entertainment industry to take up yoga, as it clears the mind and creates…

— Emmanuel Jal

“They had taken to the movement unlike anything he had ever seen, and he thought that should this venture of the Jews…

— Mark Helprin

When I graduated from high school, I made the decision to pursue my dance training in London, England. I was so scared…

— Catherine Mary Stewart

“I skipped between the dancers, twirling my skirts. The seated, masked musicians didn’t look up at me as I leaped before them,…

— Sarah J. Maas

... in general, the Anglo-Irish do not make good dancers; they are too spritely and conscious; they are incapable of one kind…

— Elizabeth Bowen

“Collaborative workshops and writers' peer groups hadn't been invented when I was young. They're a wonderful invention. They put the writer into…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

At our most primitive we are storytellers and dancers.

— Anne Lamott

Modern dancers should be doing things no one else is doing, and it should come from the gut.

— Twyla Tharp

I don't ever use dancers, and when I do, it's literally, like, four break dancers.

— Rita Ora

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

— Michaela DePrince

Listen - I like musicals. Even when they're bad, there's a couple of dancers I can watch.

— Richard Schiff

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

— Bryce Dessner

Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays.

— George Balanchine

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

— Mary Helen Bowers

I have two sisters and neither one of them are dancers.

— Cheryl Burke

I wanna get backup singers, but I don't think I will ever get backup dancers.

— Blackbear

People call me the painter of dancers, but I really wish to capture movement itself.

— Edgar Degas

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

— Jillian Hervey

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

— Heather Morris

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

— Kelli Berglund

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

— Twyla Tharp

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

— Dita Von Teese