Dancer Quotes

• If age someday grounds my feet and wilts my port de bras, what vestige of the old life will be left? The signs that I was a dancer will gradually fade like stripes on a beach towel. Even my knowledge of the art form, reaped in sweat over decades, could be lost over time.

  

  Sascha Radetsky
  • Time
  • Knowledge
  • Dancer

• I trained as a ballet dancer - well, I started when I was two and a half, and was serious about it from when I was eight until I was 18.

  

  Jessica Brown Findlay
  • Serious
  • Ballet
  • Dancer

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

  

  Sutton Foster
  • Actress
  • Singer
  • Dancer

• A dancer's life is hard - it is so physically demanding, and at any moment, you could have an injury that could end your career.

  

  Monica Cruz
  • Career
  • Moment
  • Physically

• I remember the first time I felt that I was sharing the stage with someone spectacular was dancing with Beyonce. It was the dancers, the band, Beyonce and me in front of thousands of people. That was sick. It was pretty amazing that I got to travel the world with someone like her.

  

  Harry Shum, Jr.
  • Band
  • Stage
  • Beyonce

• The dance, just as the performance of the actor, is kinesthetic art, art of the muscle sense. The awareness of tension and relaxation within his own body, the sense of balance that distinguishes the proud stability of the vertical from the risky adventures of thrusting and falling--these are the tools of the dancer.

  

  Rudolf Arnheim
  • Art
  • Proud
  • Dance

• I have trod a measure, I have flattered a lady, I have been politic with my friend, smooth with mine enemy.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Enemy
  • Dancing
  • Flattery

• I need to live in new shoes and not be a dancer.

  

  Heather Watts
  • Live
  • Shoes
  • Dancer

• My body is very different from most of the dancers I dance with. My hair is different than most I dance with. But I didn't let that stop me. Black girls rock and can be ballerinas.

  

  Misty Copeland
  • Different
  • Empowering
  • Dancer

• 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
  • Life
  • Stories
  • Models

• I was born with rhythm but I don't know if - I'm not a break dancer.

  

  Michael B. Jordan
  • Break
  • Rhythm
  • Dancer

• In vocal choreography you had to give a lot of consideration to the fact that you were working with singers and not dancers. But you had to make singers look like they were dancers, and to make the movements as natural as possible, and there to be an association with the movement, uh, somewhat to what the lyric was saying.

  

  Cholly Atkins
  • Giving
  • Natural
  • Consideration

• My son is a better dancer than me. I always try to encourage him in his endeavours.

  

  Mithun Chakraborty
  • Better
  • Dancer
  • Encourage

• It's an unfortunate reality of being a male dancer that it's not really looked upon... it's not appreciated.

  

  Sascha Radetsky
  • Reality
  • Dancer
  • Appreciated

• I feel like I represent every young dancer, and even non-dancer, who felt they were not accepted by the ballet world. I'd like to think that they can see themselves in me.

  

  Misty Copeland
  • Young
  • Accepted
  • Dancer

• Sometimes I say I feel more like a dancer than an actor, because there are things implied about being an actor that I don't really like. I feel more comfortable with the word 'performer'. I like being the thing. I like being the doer. There's a factualness to it. And then certain resonances happen out of how you apply yourself physically.

  

  Willem Dafoe
  • Sometimes
  • Actors
  • Certain

• Obviously, the young dancers lack a certain air of maturity.

  

  Mikhail Baryshnikov
  • Air
  • Certain
  • Maturity

• No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.

  

  Mikhail Baryshnikov
  • Business
  • Dance
  • Motivational

• I had to learn quick, because I was performing in Cinco de Mayo festivals with babies crying and people lifting their beers, and you know the feather dancers would come, and they'd say, "What are you, a poet? You're next".

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • People
  • Baby
  • Poet

• Venerable are letters, infinitely brave, forlorn, and lost. Life would split asunder without them. 'Come to tea, come to dinner, what's the truth of the story? have you heard the news? life in the capital is wonderful; the Russian dancers....' These are our stays and props. These lace our days together and make of life a perfect globe.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Perfect
  • Brave
  • Tea

• A tap dancer is really a frustrated drummer.

  

  Eleanor Powell
  • Dancer
  • Drummer

• When a dancer comes onstage, he is not just a blank slate that the choreographer has written on. Behind him he has all the decisions he has made in life. Each time, he has chosen, and in what he is onstage, you see the result of those choices. You are looking at the person he is, and the person who, at this point, he cannot help but be Exceptional dancers, in my experience, are also exceptional people, people with an attitude toward life, a kind of quest, and an internal quality. They know who they are, and they show this to you, willingly.

  

  Mikhail Baryshnikov
  • People
  • Quality
  • Decision

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

  

  Ernie Wise
  • Show
  • Dancer
  • My Wife

• Maybe its a generational thing, but I never wanted to be the best black dancer in the world. I just wanted to be the best.

  

  Judith Jamison
  • Best
  • Wanted
  • Dancer

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