Ambition Quote by Robert Gottlieb

Twyla Tharp set her sights on ballet, and ballet, hungry for major talent, succumbed.

— Robert Gottlieb

I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.

— Patricia Velasquez

I used to get recognized quite often as being a 'Soul Train' dancer. Quite often, which was great at times but sometimes was not…

— Rosie Perez

My mother was a dancer when she was a kid and I gather she was very good, but was never allowed to go into…

— Denis Lawson

I was working on a dance theatre adaptation of Devdutt Pattanaik's story 'The Pregnant King.' While rehearsing for it, I discovered that I loved…

— Akshara Haasan

I don't think of myself as a dancer. I think of myself as a singer-actress who moves really well.

— Sutton Foster

I was a dancer for many years. I was a premier dancer with 'Porgy and Bess,' the opera. And I taught dance some, in…

— Maya Angelou

I saw Mikhail Baryshnikov do Twyla Tharp's Sinatra Suite on PBS. I have no numbers to prove it, but I bet that kids who…

— Gene Kelly

I studied dance for about 15 years, various disciplines, with classical ballet as my primary.

— Dana Loesch

Dance is so prominent, now more than it's been before, but I still feel like there's this void that needs to be filled that…

— Haley Lu Richardson

I had certain physical limitations that made me change the choreography for myself or made me more interested in choreography only rather than dancing.…

— Katherine Dunham

I think that, like any kind of career, there are many different people involved in the ballet world.

— Amanda Schull