Dancer Quotes
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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be, I am a dancer. But I don't think I would be on 'Dancing with the Stars,' mainly because I would be too shy.
Al Pacino
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You ask what I have found and far and wide I go, Nothing but Cromwell's house and Cromwell's murderous crew, The lovers and the dancers are beaten into the clay, And the tall men and the swordsmen and the horsemen where are they?
William Butler Yeats
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There are a lot of things that dancers can do that actors cannot and actors can do that dancers cannot.
Wim Wenders
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If I was tall and blonde, I might have been a dancer or singer.
Agnes Varda
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Well, I took ballet for many, many years, so my whole childhood really revolved around dance class. I grew up around dance; my mother was a dancer.
Amy Sherman-Palladino
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For me, I'm a dancer first. I could be the President of the United States, and I will always be a dancer, first and foremost.
Anne Fletcher
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My mum and dad teach, and all my brothers and sisters have been in 'Riverdance' and so forth. So I was forced to become a dancer; it's part of my family history.
Sean Maguire
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If you've got hips, you can't be a gymnast or dancer. That ruled me out.
Mia Hamm
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Dancers are stripped enough onstage. You don't have to know more about them than they've given you already.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and sulfurous hatreds where anything is likely, and dancers know it.
Shana Alexander
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The dancer, or dancers, must transform the stage for the audience as well as for themselves into an autonomous, complete, virtual realm, and all motions into a play of visible forces in unbroken, virtual time...Both space and time, as perceptible factors, disappear almost entirely in the dance illusion.
Susanne Langer
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If you have a body you are a dancer
Gabrielle Roth
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I try to imitate on the piano the leaps in space a dancer makes.
Cecil Taylor
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Dance was always part of my life because I was a dancer and my mother was a dancer, and I love the theater.
Amy Sherman-Palladino
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The dancer will not belong to a nation but to all humanity.
Isadora Duncan
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If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts.
Ritchie Blackmore Blackmore's Night
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My background is somewhat unusual, as I trained to be a ballet dancer. I worked in the theatre for eight or nine years as a contemporary dancer. But as an actor one does read Shakespeare and does try to learn the classics.
William Kempe
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How can we know the dancer from the dance?
William Butler Yeats
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A dancer must have tremendous personality. A God like Christ and even a godman like Rajneesh had some personality. Combination of talent, dedication, creativity and being emotive is imperative. A coupling of these four qualities with technique is essential. Monotony is deterrent as it regards your style and I notice today, that new dancers perform in a startlingly similar fashion.
Yamini Krishnamurthy
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I was using tape loops for dancers and dance production. I had very funky primitive equipment, in fact technology wasn't very good no matter how much money you had.
Terrence Mitchell Riley
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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
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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
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I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as a songwriter, or only as a tap dancer. I like to move around.
Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience
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As a singer you're a great dancer.
Amy Leslie