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Dancer Quotes by Mikhail Baryshnikov
- No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.
- Dancers are stripped enough onstage. You don't have to know more about them than they've given you already.
- I am not the first straight dancer or the last.
- You see, dancers are quite mature people because they start performing so early. They become professionals when they start to take everyday classes.
- I have been very lucky to work in so many new ballets, but that is what a dancer's work is.
- Nobody is born a dancer.
- Obviously, the young dancers lack a certain air of maturity.
- When a dancer comes onstage, he is not just a blank slate that the choreographer has written on. Behind him he has all the decisions…
- What do dancers think of Fred Astaire? It's no secret. We hate him. He gives us a complex because he's too perfect. His perfection is…
- No one is born a dancer. You have to want it more than anything.
- The body cannot lie. You cannot be somebody else onstage, no matter how good of an actor or dancer or singer you are. When you…
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- One is born to be a great dancer. — George Balanchine
- No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- Dancers are stripped enough onstage. You don't have to know more about them than they've given you already. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- I am not the first straight dancer or the last. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- You see, dancers are quite mature people because they start performing so early. They become professionals when they start to take everyday… — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- I have been very lucky to work in so many new ballets, but that is what a dancer's work is. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- Nobody is born a dancer. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- Obviously, the young dancers lack a certain air of maturity. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and… — Warren G. Bennis
- If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts. — Ritchie Blackmore
- I went through my first big breakup, with a boyfriend who I had been with for more than two years. He had… — Christina Aguilera
- The comedian sticks as religiously to her theme as a dancer sticks to a diet. — Jo Brand