Best Quote by Judith Jamison

Going on stage and transcending the audience and becoming this otherworldly thing makes you a dancer. It's not so black and white.

— Misty Copeland

I really wanted to be a dancer, but I just wasn't good enough to do that so that didn't happen.

— Maura Tierney

The fact that black young dancers consider me to be a role model is incredible. I hope that they can continue to realize that…

— Michaela DePrince

I've always wanted to be a good dancer. It used to be my passion.

— Aishwarya Rajesh

I had wanted to be a dancer when I was younger. But at some point I figured out I was a better singer.

— Katy B

I really wanted to be a dancer, actually. Michael Jackson inspired me a lot.

— Charice Pempengco

I didn't want to be a dancer... I just did it to work my way through college. But I was always an athlete and…

— Gene Kelly

I'm still trying to change the way people see black dancers that we can become delicate dancers, that we can be a ballerina,

— Michaela DePrince

I wanted to be a professional dancer my whole life.

— Cheryl Burke

I never wanted to be a dancer. I was too big, I was too slow. I remember not liking it. Later on, when I…

— Maksim Chmerkovskiy

One dance had made me the most famous colored woman in the world.

— Josephine Baker

I was a dancer first, which made me realize how much I loved performing.

— Maddie Hasson