Bones Quote by Martha Graham

Because muscle is heavier than fat, dancers weigh more than you might think, but they are usually very lean.

— Deborah Bull

Dancers use their bodies in extraordinary ways, so we are chronically pre-arthritic, because of how we use our muscles and our bones.

— Judith Jamison

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

One of the things I found as a dancer is that you're trying to perfect your body but also protect it and keep it…

— Mary Helen Bowers

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

— Darcey Bussell

If you have a body you are a dancer

— Gabrielle Roth

Most dancers have no awareness of how they look; half of them think they're fat. There is anorexia in the ballet world; there are…

— Benjamin Millepied

In a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate strength.

— Martha Graham

Dancers work really hard, they don't make any money. It's hard.

— Andie MacDowell

You are an athlete if you are a dancer.

— Sharon Lawrence

Dancers are both athletes and artists.

— Margot Fonteyn

Most dancers have a young body. This is part discipline and part desire, because just sitting around makes one feel sluggish.

— Cyd Charisse