Ballet Quote by Agnes de Mille

Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.

— Agnes de Mille

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

— Twyla Tharp

Dancers carry themselves in completely different ways to how we do in our everyday lives. They are very free with their bodies which I'm…

— Kristin Cavallari

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

— Ruthie Henshall

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

— Heather Morris

All dancers are, by and large, a photographer's dream. They communicate with their bodies and they are trained to be completely responsive to a…

— Annie Leibovitz

People strangely revere dance. They see it as another world, and dancers are somehow mysterious - just because they don't speak.

— Matthew Bourne

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

— Twyla Tharp

Dancers should realise that they are really lucky. Dancing is not a job. It's people who are chosen. And you must realise that you…

— Sylvie Guillem

We've never seen what it is that companies go through, what it is that dancers go through on a daily basis, financially, physically, mentally,…

— Neve Campbell

Dance in this century has remained primarily a personal ritual operating, like most avant-garde art, as an idiosyncratic form rather than a tribal expression…

— Jamake Highwater

We put too much on contemporary dancers. A lot of them cannot change styles; a lot of them can't do anything else other than…

— Nigel Lythgoe