Audience Quote by Martha Graham

I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not…

— Martha Graham

I didn't want people to think I'm a dancer. I'm much more. I'm a human being.

— Sergei Polunin

A dancer must listen to his body and pay homage to it. Behind the movement lies this terrible, driving passion, this necessity. I won't…

— Martha Graham

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

By the way, dancers are not human beings. How can you be human and do what they do?

— Alesha Dixon

I always wanted to devote a certain part of my life to dance - my true being is to be a dancer.

— Nita Ambani

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

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

If I was trained as a dancer then I probably would have been a dancer, and I'm not.

— Caroline Flack

The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of her soul...This is the truly creative dancer, natural but not imitative, speaking in movement out…

— Isadora Duncan

I wanted to inspire every little girl who wants to be a dancer to fire their imagination about the joys of being on the…

— Darcey Bussell

I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.

— Martha Graham