Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mikhail Baryshnikov

To achieve some depth in your field requires a lot of sacrifices.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Nobody is born a dancer.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

I want to see people dance, and I would like to guess what kind of people they are. I don't want to know the recipe for their pasta.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

The problem is not making up the steps but deciding which ones to keep.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Just sit and open your eyes and open your heart. It's dance theater.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

We're trying to stretch our muscles creatively. It gives us so much more freedom.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

No one is born a dancer. You have to want it more than anything.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

It doesn't matter how high you lift your leg. The technique is about transparency, simplicity, making an earnest attempt.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

There comes a moment in a young artist's life when he knows he has to bring something to the stage from within himself. He has to put in something in order to be able to take something.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

The more injuries you get, the smarter you get.

Margot Fonteyn

Dancing was something to be taken very seriously when engaged in and otherwise put out of mind.

Margot Fonteyn

Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the first time

Margot Fonteyn

The world of dance is a natural world from which civilization has divorced many of us by making it appear remote - something reserved for the few who have a special talent.

Margot Fonteyn

Jumping for joy' is a very basic human reaction, and a child skipping down the street is simply an untrained dancer.

Margot Fonteyn

I explained it when I danced it.

Margot Fonteyn

Ballet is more than a profession - it is a way of life.

Margot Fonteyn

Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.

Margot Fonteyn

The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.

Margot Fonteyn

Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.

Mithun Chakraborty

Actors are born, good actors are trained. Dancers are born, good dancers are trained.

Margaret Atwood

I would rather dance as a ballerina, though faultily, than as a flawless clown.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

For hardly any man dances when sober, unless he is insane. Nor does he dance while alone, nor at a respectable and moderate party. Dancing is the final phase of a wild party with fancy decorations and a multitude of delights.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

No sober person dances.

Margaret Cho

Since I became a dancer, I have felt much better about myself.

She likes to dance and splash in the water, and she loves being outside.

So far, it has been huge for us. We have one of our guys train people to line dance and we have half price steak nights the same night. So people can come, enjoy dinner and then stay for dancing.

Mary Oliver

As long as you're dancing, you can break the rules.

Martine McCutcheon

I've been told if you're an actress you can't sing, if you're a dancer you can't act, you can't do theatre and be respected if you've done a TV soap, you can't have a No. 1 record. All these different things they've told me I can't do, but I wanted to do them, so I've done them.

Pink

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

Paulo Coelho

When you dance you can enjoy the luxury of being you.

Pierce Brosnan

Love is a lot like dancing; you just surrender to the music.

Mother Teresa

Success will win you false friends and true enemies - succeed anyway.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Not in his goals but in his transitions, man is great.