Famous Quotes & Sayings

Judith Jamison

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

If you look at a dancer in silence, his or her body will be the music. If you turn the music on, that body will become an extension of what you're hearing.

Lyndsy Fonseca

I wanted to be a dancer my whole life. And when I gave it up to act, I always had a really sad part of myself that missed it and missed performing and missed being physical in that way.

Maksim Chmerkovskiy

As a dancer, obviously, we are all inspired by Michael Jackson, and I always looked up to Gene Kelly. He was a bigger version of Fred Astaire, and he was amazing as well.

Maddie Hasson

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tighrope dancer so that no incompetent would dare step upon it.

Jo Brand

The comedian sticks as religiously to her theme as a dancer sticks to a diet.

At intervals between the songs, more especially after the trances have begun, the dancers unclasp hands and sit down to smoke or talk for a few minutes.

Al Pacino

All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.

Ed Sheeran

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

Bobby Orr

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

Judith Jamison

People don't remember me for how high my legs went, even though they went up very high, and how many pirouettes I did. They don't remember me for that. They remember me and any other dancer because something touched them inside. It's an indelible memory on the heart and in the mind.

Mads Mikkelsen

I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.

I've always been physical. I loved sports growing up. I was never specifically a dancer or anything like that.

Robert Gottlieb

The mystery of Christopher Wheeldon deepens. Yes, he's the most talented of the younger ballet choreographers - indeed, where's the competition? Yes, he's particularly good at nurturing dancers and identifying their essential qualities.

Ben Okri

If we could be pure dancers in spirit we would never be afraid to love, and we would love with strength and wisdom.

Bella Thorne

I was never a dancer before 'Shake It Up'.

Dick Van Dyke

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.'

Brooke Langton

The actual cheerleaders in our film are all Broadway dancers.

Antony Tudor

My body can't demonstrate. It isn't willing to explore movements the way it used to. I've always had to find the movement in myself then show it in myself. If I've got the sense of movement for the character, I expect the dancer to get it too.

Even the fall of a dancer is a somersault

Donna Mills

I also loved musicals because I was a dancer.

Cris Judd

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.

Dustin Diamond

Stand-up in general is the most raw form of entertainment. There is no pyrotechnics or back-up dancers, it's just live and die by your jokes, that's it.

Adam Sandler

I prefer musicals, because I am the best dancer who ever lived. The best plies, the best sashays, and by far the best-smelling Capezios.

Alex Meraz

I was a professional dancer before I was an actor.

Andie MacDowell

Dancers work really hard, they don't make any money. It's hard.

Annette Funicello

I always considered myself a dancer before anything else.

Anne Sexton

Someone is dead. Even the trees know it, those poor old dancers who come on lewdly, all pea-green scarfs and spine pole.

Cuba Gooding, Jr.

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.

David Carradine

I was enough of an acrobat and a gymnast and a dancer and everything else so that I could handle the kung fu, because it's just choreography.

Anne Lamott

At our most primitive we are storytellers and dancers.

Andy Warhol

I never wanted to be a painter; I wanted to be a tap dancer.