Famous Quotes & Sayings

Susanna Hoffs

You realize you can get good at something, even though ballet almost felt like you could never be good enough. No matter how hard you worked, it was so hard to be a great dancer.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

I must confess I knew very little about the trance scene, I'm more house and commercial dance but it was really interesting and different.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Getting up to dance to your own stuff looks pretty pretentious. And leaving the dancefloor when it comes on is just awkward.

Shirley MacLaine

Being a dancer meant you nearly always thought about food.

Shirley MacLaine

To dance at all is to confront oneself. It is the art of honesty.

Shirley MacLaine

You can't lie when you dance. It's so direct. You do what is in you. It is impossible to dance out of the side of your mouth.

Shirley MacLaine

Dance is an art that imprints on the soul. It is with you every moment, it expresses itself in everything you do.

Shirley MacLaine

Then come the lights shining on you from above. You are a performer. You forget all you learned, the process of technique, the fear, the pain, you even forget who you are you become one with the music, the lights, indeed one with the dance.

Shirley MacLaine

I want women to be liberated and still be able to have a nice ass and shake it.

Shakira

I'm not a trained dancer, but I grew up in a culture that revolves around dance.

Pink

If God is the DJ, then Life is the dance floor; Love is the rhythm and You are the music.

Rachel Stevens

My personal trainer is an ex-dancer so we do a lot of ballet and jazz.

Rachel Stevens

Just because you've been on stage doesn't mean you can dance.

Thomas Hardy

To dance with a man is to concentrate a twelvemonth's regulation fire upon him in the fragment of an hour. To pass to courtship without acquaintance, to pass to marriage without courtship, is a skipping of terms reserved for those alone who tread this royal road.

Thomas Campion

Kind are her answers, But her performance keeps no day; Breaks time, as dancers. From their own Music when they stray.

Ruben Blades

We had something to say. Whenever we played, people didn't dance, they listened.

Umberto Eco

When you are on the dancefloor, there is nothing to do but dance.

Trey Songz

I'm no dancer. I got rhythm, I can dance if I need to, but I'm not Chris Brown. He's an amazing dancer. If I'm not going to be amazing at it, I'm not gon' do it. I'm gonna do what works for me, and you're going to feel it 'cause it's me.

Rick Dees

One's concentration as a performer must remain centered on the action of which one is a part. For it is in truth only one's own concentration on the imagined reality of the role that can force the audience's attention to that same place.

Maddie Hasson

I was a dancer first, which made me realize how much I loved performing.

K. D. Lang

To dance is human, to polka is divine.

Willem Dafoe

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.

Saint Augustine

Learn to dance, so when you get to heaven the angels know what to do with you.

Saint Francis de Sales

A dance is the devil's procession, and he that entereth into a dance, entereth into his possession.

Saint Francis de Sales

I have the same opinion of dances that physicians have of mushrooms: the best of them are good for nothing.

Saint Augustine

All the dancer's gestures are signs of things, and the dance called rational, because it aptly signifies and displays something over and above the pleasure of the senses.

Wim Wenders

There are a lot of things that dancers can do that actors cannot and actors can do that dancers cannot.

Zhang Ziyi

It's not that I wanted to be an actor; it's that I didn't want to be a dancer! I was trained in traditional Chinese dance, and after working so hard it seemed unfair to just disappear into a group.

Zhang Ziyi

From my opinion, 'geisha' means a woman skilled in the arts, like dancing, singing and playing musical instruments,.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

We have no adequate conception of the perfection of the ancient tragic dance. The pleasure which the greeks received from it had for its basis difference; & the more unfit the vehicle, the more lively was the curiosity & intense the delights at seeing the difficulty overcome.

Vince Young

Man, Coach Brown, he's so relaxed. We've seen that guy dancing this week at practice and he's dancing in the locker room. It brings tears to guys' eyes and brings happiness to everybody.

William Blake

What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.