100+ Dancer Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: "Black Swan Choreographer Benjamin Millepied on Teaching Natalie Portman to Have Swan Arms" by Rebecca Milzoff, www.vulture.com. December 3, 2010.

topic: Lakes, Swans, Dancer, Swan Lake

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

- Benjamin Millepied

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Thinking, Dancer, Anorexia

As a dancer I couldn't outdance Ginger Rogers or Eleanor Powell. As a singer I'm no rival to Doris Day. As an actress I don't take myself seriously...I'm the girl the truck drivers love.

- Betty Grable

topic: Girl, Dancer, Rivals, Love Films, Truck Driver

There was this long lovely dancer in a little club downtown, love to watch her do her stuff.

- Bob Seger

topic: Long, Dancer, Lovely, Social Taboos

My kids have become wonderful dancers themselves and enjoy teaching just as much as I do.

- Bobby Burgess

topic: Teaching, Kids, Dancer

I'm a singer who moves like a dancer.

- Bobby Darin

topic: Moving, Dancer, Singers

I'm a terrible dancer! Oh, I'm an awful dancer!

- Bobby Orr

topic: Dancer, Awful, Terrible

I think what really clicked for me was when I started booking commercials as a dancer... just being on set and seeing every element of production, it was magic to me.

- Bree Turner

topic: Thinking, Dancer, Magic

No person can ever know everything that is in the heart of another. We are all Face Dancers in our souls.

- Brian Herbert

source: Brian Herbert, Kevin Anderson (2003). “Dune: House Harkonnen”, p.689, Spectra

topic: Heart, Dancer, Soul

I don't date dancers, but I've always wanted to teach guys how to dance.

- Briana Evigan

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Dancer, Guy, Teach

The actual cheerleaders in our film are all Broadway dancers.

- Brooke Langton

topic: Dancer, Broadway, Cheerleader

It's important for a dancer to wear very tight underpants. I used to feel a bit exposed if I wasn't being held up in the right place.

- Bruce Forsyth

topic: Dancer, Important, Used, Underpants

Little did I know that there's nothing more competitive in the world than a professional ballroom dancer. They are as competitive as Olympic athletes.

- Bruce Forsyth

topic: Athlete, Dancer, World, Ballroom

They do say, the smaller the feet, the better the dancer.

- Bruce Forsyth

topic: Feet, Dancer

Lady Gaga? She's cool! She works really hard. When we would have our dance rehearsals, she wasn't the singer that was like, 'Oh, I'll just stand in front.' She wanted to learn everything - she was doing the dance moves. She's a good dancer.

- Caity Lotz

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Moving, Dancer, Rehearsal, Dance Moves

All dancers have a cumulative tendency, because each beat of the tom-tom has an almost irresistible appeal. Soon, those who were just spectators would dance too.

- Camara Laye

topic: Dancer, Ballet, Beats

I was a ballet dancer growing up and that's what I was convinced I would be.

- Candice Swanepoel

topic: Growing Up, Dancer, Ballet

A good dancer is one who listens to the musicWe dance the music not the steps. Anyone who aspires to dance never thinks about what he is going to do. What he cares about is that he follows the music. You see, we are painters. We paint the music with our feet..

- Carlos Gavito

topic: Thinking, Feet, Dancer, Aspire, Dance Steps

As a dancer, I love music that makes me want to move.

- Carmen Electra

topic: Moving, Dancer, Want

I'm glad I was born when I was. My time was the golden age of variety. If I were starting out again now, maybe things would happen for me, but it certainly would not be on a variety show with 28 musicians, 12 dancers, two major guest stars, 50 costumes a week by Bob Mackie. The networks just wouldn't spend the money today.

- Carol Burnett

topic: Stars, Two, Dancer, Starting Out, Guest Stars

I realized that performing was what I wanted to do when I did my first professional gig as a dancer with my company Synergy in Canada. I was overwhelmed with how it felt to perform in front of an audience.

- Catherine Mary Stewart

topic: Dancer, Gigs, Canada

I really became convinced I wanted to tell the story of the real-life model for the Degas sculpture 'Little Dancer Aged 14,' which was unveiled in 1881, the Belle Epoque.

- Cathy Marie Buchanan

topic: Real, Dancer, Sculpture, Belle, Degas

I try to imitate on the piano the leaps in space a dancer makes.

- Cecil Taylor

source: "Innovation, improvisation". Interview with Miya Masaoka, www.miyamasaoka.com. October 25, 2000.

topic: Piano, Space, Dancer

There are so many things I want to do. Like, I want to get an artist, a musician, a photographer, and a bunch of dancers that I know and just travel across Africa and just film it and just see what happens. Do and learn as much as I possibly can. Luckily, I have a lot more time.

- Channing Tatum

topic: Artist, Dancer, Musician

Now, 'Dasher!' now, 'Dancer!' now, 'Prancer' and 'Vixen!' On, 'Comet!' on, 'Cupid!' on, 'Donner' and 'Blitzen!'

- Clement Clarke Moore

source: Clement Clarke Moore (1973). “The night before Christmas in signed English”, Clerc

topic: Christmas, Dancer, Vixens, St Nicholas, Comets

When she goes about her kitchen duties, chopping, carving, mixing, whisking, she moves with the grace and precision of a ballet dancer, her fingers plying the food with the dexterity of a croupier.

- Craig Claiborne

source: "Food and Drink: A Book of Quotations". Book by Susan L. Rattiner, September 19, 2012.

topic: Moving, Dancing, Dancer, Carving, Chopping

If you're not messing up every now and then at practice, you're not doing anything above your ability to progress.

- Crazy Legs

topic: Practice, Dancer, Progress, Messing Up, Bboy

The floor is milk, churn it and make it butter.

- Crazy Legs

topic: Dancer, Milk, Bboy

When I first moved to L.A. as a dancer, all I wanted to do was dance. I never even considered trying to act or direct.

- Cris Judd

source: "Dirty Dancing: The Secrets Behind Its Sexy TV Makeover". Interview with Angel Cohn, www.tvguide.com. December 6, 2006.

topic: Dancer, Trying, Firsts

The majority of people know me as a dancer, but they don't also know that I'm a director, a songwriter and a producer.

- Cris Judd

source: "Dirty Dancing: The Secrets Behind Its Sexy TV Makeover". Interview with Angel Cohn, www.tvguide.com. December 06, 2006.

topic: People, Dancer, Majority

Before I was an actor I was a break dancer, one of those street performers you see. I guess my introduction into the professional world of performing was a stint as back up dancer for Lionel Richie and I performed at the closing ceremony at the '84 Olympics.

- Cuba Gooding, Jr.

topic: Dancer, World, Olympics, Street Performers

In November, the trees are standing all sticks and bones. Without their leaves, how lovely they are, spreading their arms like dancers. They know it is time to be still.

- Cynthia Rylant

source: Cynthia Rylant (2015). “In November”, p.9, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Dancer, Tree, Lovely

Mum, who had been a dancer with a small ballet company before she got married, was full of encouragement. She didn't say, "This is really good, you should do this", She just encouraged us to do whatever we liked.

- Dannii Minogue

topic: Encouragement, Dancer, Ballet

I have all these opinions about the dancers but they should be kept to myself. No one consults me. I keep asking to be invited to the dance tryouts but no one ever allows me there. I'll just say this: My general philosophy is that you can teach them to dance.

- Daryl Morey

topic: Philosophy, Dancer, Asking, Tryouts

I fell in front of the SYTYCD dancers. I was tryin to do the twirl, and I bit it...pretty hard. Then Michael Johns made fun of me, and...

- David Cook

topic: Fun, Dancer, Made

My wife is the dancer, but I certainly know how to sing.

- David Hasselhoff

topic: Wife, Dancer, My Wife

The woman in charge of costuming assigned us our outfits and gave us a lecture on keeping things clean. She held up a calendar and said, "Ladies, you know what this is. Use it. I have scraped enough blood out from the crotches of elf knickers to last me the rest of my life. And don't tell me, 'I don't wear underpants, I'm a dancer.' You're not a dancer. If you were a real dancer you wouldn't be here. You're an elf and you're going to wear panties like an elf.

- David Sedaris

topic: Real, Blood, Dancer, Knickers, Underpants

So I forcibly shove aside my prickles of pissed-off, which is easier than it sounds when millions of little sequined caffeine dancers are doing their big Broadway number on your internal stage. (Page 173)

- Deb Caletti

topic: Numbers, Dancer, Pissed Off

I always recommend a sensible diet, including lots of carbohydrates and avoiding too much fat. Dancers don't need different fuel from other people - they just need more of it because they use more energy.

- Deborah Bull

source: "Nutrition" by Kate Smith, www.ascendingstardance.com.

topic: People, Dancer, Energy, Carbohydrates

A good dancer is an educated one, so dont abandon school.

- Deborah Bull

topic: School, Dancer, Educated

But you do have to start young as a dancer if you're going to achieve the physical skills necessary.

- Deborah Bull

topic: Skills, Dancer, Achieve, Physical Attraction

As you get older, the physical abilities decrease, which is particularly frustrating because your brain gets so good! So as you are becoming less technically or physically able, younger dancers are emerging who need the space to perform.

- Deborah Bull

topic: Space, Dancer, Brain, Emerging, Physical Ability

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

- Deborah Bull

topic: Thinking, Dancer, Might

Her professors were astonished by her leaps of thought, by the finesse and elegance of her insights. She arrived at hypotheses by sheer intuition and with what eventually one of her mentors described as an almost alarming speed; she was like a dancer, he said, out in the cosmos springing weightlessly from star to star. Drones, merely brilliant, crawled along behind with laborious proofs that supported her assertions.

- Deborah Eisenberg

source: Deborah Eisenberg (2016). “Twilight of the Superheroes”, p.36, Pan Macmillan

topic: Stars, Dancer, Intuition, Finesse

Physical expression was my first language: Before I was an actor, I was a dancer, an acrobat, a mime and a street performer.

- Denis Lavant

topic: Expression, Dancer, Actors, Street Performers

I've always been a bit of an orphan, because actors say, 'Well, he's more of a dancer.' And dancers say, 'No. He's really a singer.' And singers say, 'No. He's an actor.'

- Dick Van Dyke

topic: Dancer, Actors, Singers

Originality is when you mix two things that haven't been mixed.

- DJ Marlboro

topic: Two, Dancer, Originality, Bboy

I also loved musicals because I was a dancer.

- Donna Mills

topic: Dancer

A good dancer changes the way dancing was thought after he left the floor.

- Donnie Burns

topic: Dance, Dancing, Dancer

It was the only ambition I ever had - not to be a dancer or Hollywood movie star, but to be a housewife in a good marriage.

- Doris Day

topic: Stars, Ambition, Dancer

More than anything, rave was an intentionally designed experience. The music, lighting, and ambience were all fine-tuned to elicit and augment altered states of consciousness. The rhythm of the music was precisely 120 beats per minute, the frequency of the fetal heart rate, and the same beat believed to be used by South American shamans to bring their tribes into a trance state. Through dancing together, without prescribed movements, or even partners, rave dancers sought to reach group consciousness on a level they had never experienced before.

- Douglas Rushkoff

topic: Heart, Dancing, Dancer, Rave, Altered States

Somewhere in there the grace of a ballet dancer joins with the strength of an SAS squaddie, the dignity of an ancient kind, the nerve of a bomb disposal officer...

- Eamon Dunphy

topic: Soccer, Football, Dancer

Once you have made peace with the present moment, see what happens, what you can do or choose to do, or rather what life does through you. There are three words that convey the secret of the art of living, the secret of all success and happiness: One with Life. Being one with life is being one with Now. You then realize that you don't live your life, but life lives you. Life is the dancer and you are the dance.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Art, Peace, Dancer, New Earth

Being one with life is being one with Now. You then realize that you don't live your life, but life lives you. Life is the dancer, and you are the Dance.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Dancer, Live Your Life, Realizing

If I ever have any back-up dancers, I want the penguins from Madagascar.

- Ed Sheeran

topic: Dancer, Madagascar, Want

People call me the painter of dancers, but I really wish to capture movement itself.

- Edgar Degas

topic: People, Dancer, Wish

A tap dancer is really a frustrated drummer.

- Eleanor Powell

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Dancer, Frustrated, Tap Dancers

I get enough sleep. I take very good care of myself. Growing up as a dancer, you know your body so well, you know what to do to overcome something.

- Elizabeth Berkley

topic: Growing Up, Sleep, Dancer, Enough Sleep

You have to be a little crazy to be a dancer.

- Elizabeth Berkley

topic: Crazy, Dancer, Littles

No one can hand you anything as a dancer. You have to earn it.

- Elizabeth Berkley

topic: Hands, Dancer

For me, as an actress, being a dancer has helped me. I've done it with my feet bloody.

- Elizabeth Berkley

topic: Feet, Dancer, Actresses

I was embarrassed that I even wanted to become an actress because coming from L.A., with two older sisters in the business and a mom who had been a ballet dancer, it was such a cliche.

- Elizabeth Olsen

topic: Mom, Two, Dancer, Older Sister

I was a tap dancer as a child, so I understand precision and repetition.

- Elliott Gould

source: "Elliott Gould on throwing his lunch at Robert Altman and Saturday Night Live's Five-Timers Club". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. July 26, 2013.

topic: Children, Dancer, Precision, Tap Dancers

My mom was a dancer, my dad's a singer and I've always had that kind of music in my life.

- Elvis Stojko

topic: Mom, Dad, Dancer

I used to love to see Willie Pep and Ray Robinson. To me, the epitome of a great athlete is a great boxer. I just love the rhythm of seeing a man dance, slip punches. I loved the dancers and boxers. I would see them and be mesmerized.

- Emanuel Steward

topic: Athlete, Men, Dancer, Mesmerized, Pep

I already feel a bit annoyed at myself for writing screenplays. It's a bit, I don't know, model-singer-dancer-actress that went to a posh school. There's something too weirdly predictable about it.

- Emily Mortimer

topic: Writing, School, Dancer, Posh

Let me tell you something: when you dance, you are the greatest dancer who has ever lived. And when you sing, you will have the courage to raise your voice to the heavens, knowing that you may never get an answer.

- Emma Forrest

topic: Voice, Knowing, Dancer, Raise Your Voice

If I had an extra 20 or 50 years physically, I could have been the dancer of my dreams. But I never became that dancer.

- Erik Bruhn

topic: Dream, Years, Dancer

Are we going to discuss whatever it is you are here to discuss instead of dancing around it?â€ he asks. â€œI was never a particularly good dancer.

- Erin Morgenstern

topic: Dancing, Dancer

I met my wife, Doreen, who was a dancer in the show.

- Ernie Wise

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Wife, Dancer, Mets

Many girls want to be carnal with me because I'm such a premium dancer.

- Eugene Hutz

topic: Girl, Dancer, Want, Everything Is Illuminated, Premium

I'm more of a freestyle dancer. I like to do my own thing.

- Felicity Jones

topic: Dancer, Freestyle

I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.

- Francesca Annis

topic: Dancer, Acting

Lightness of movement is the cardinal demand one has to make on a dancer.

- Frank Thiess

topic: Dancing, Dancer, Movement

It is no doubt possible to fly--but first you must know how to dance like an angel.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Angel, Dancing, Dancer

How do you expect to learn to dance when you have not even learned to walk! And above the dancer is still the flyer and his bliss.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Dancing, Dancer, Flying, Flyers

After an hour your power goes sour.

- Frosty Freeze

topic: Dancer, Hours, Sour, Bboy

If you have a body you are a dancer

- Gabrielle Roth

topic: Dancer, Body

I embarked on a risky course of plastic surgery and silicone injections, major dental realignments and gruesome medical procedures. I pray that young dancers, those who imitate me at their peril, will avoid this blind alley. It is more than a dead end; it is a dead beginning.

- Gelsey Kirkland

topic: Dancer, Medical, Praying, Injection, Medical Procedures

Any man who looks like a sissy while dancing is just a lousy dancer.

- Gene Kelly

topic: Men, Dancing, Dancer, Sissy

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 gymnast, so it came naturally.

- Gene Kelly

topic: Athlete, College, Dancer, Gymnast

I never wanted to be a dancer. It's true! I wanted to be a shortstop for the Pittsburgh Pirates.

- Gene Kelly

source: "What's the Best Way To Impress a Guy? Dancing with the Stars' Sexy Maksim Chmerkovskiy Spills the Secret!" by Jessica Radloff, www.glamour.com. April 30, 2012.

topic: Dancer, Pirate, Pittsburgh, Shortstops

I became an ardent, but never a specially good, dancer.

- Georg Brandes

topic: Dancer

God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do...

- George Balanchine

topic: Dance, Dancer, Stealing, Great Dance, Ballet Teachers

One is born to be a great dancer.

- George Balanchine

topic: Dancer, Born

I have never sung a whole song on my own before and I am not the best dancer in the world, but I would rather try and fall than not not try at all.

- Geri Halliwell