Famous Quotes & Sayings

Erin Morgenstern

The Burgess sisters arrived together. Tara and Lainie do a little bit of everything. Sometimes dancers, sometimes actresses. Once they were librarians, but that is a subject they will only discuss if heavily intoxicated.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

I have been very lucky to work in so many new ballets, but that is what a dancer's work is.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Dancers are stripped enough onstage. You don't have to know more about them than they've given you already.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

I am not the first straight dancer or the last.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

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

Martha Graham

I have spent all my life with dance and being a dancer. It's permitting life to use you in a very intense way. Sometimes it is not pleasant. Sometimes it is fearful. But nevertheless it is inevitable.

Martha Graham

You can be Eastern or Burmese or what have you, but the function of the body and the awareness of the body results in dance and you become a dancer, not just a human being.

Naomi Watts

I have a bit of a frustrated dancer in me.

Mithun Chakraborty

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

Mike Birbiglia

Backup dancers are completely respectable. They're the studio musicians of dance.

Margaret Cho

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

Kirsten Smith

He called us and said there was this gifted dancer he'd seen. We saw him and granted him a full scholarship to the festival and now he's on tour with us.

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.

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.

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.

David Hallberg

Ballet needs figures that people can recognize and relate to. People don't know ballet dancers as well as they know other artists.

Jerry Hall

My favorite dancer is Sylvie Guillem.

James Brown

I taught them everything they know, but not everything I know.

Elton John

Hold me closer tiny dancer, count the headlights on the highway. Lay me down in sheets of linen, you had a busy day today.

Jennifer Lopez

I was always a singer and a dancer, and I always wanted to be an actress. For me, it's all just one thing.

Jennifer Lopez

I just knew that was what I wanted to do. I was going to perform as a singer; I was going to perform as a dancer, and I was, you know, going to do movies and be an actress. I was going to do it or die trying. That's what my life was

Jackson Browne

Into a dancer you have grown from the seeds somebody else has sown

Jennifer Garner

I was a ballet dancer and that kind of bled into musical theater. I was constantly in rehearsal for one thing or another.

Jeremy Bulloch

I'm not a singer, and I'm not a brilliant dancer.

Jeff Goldblum

I don't go to these places where there are belly dancers and this and that.

Felicity Jones

I'm more of a freestyle dancer. I like to do my own thing.

Robert Pinsky

If I live near a dancer or a painter, or a clarinet player comes from my neighborhood, I take some pleasure in that, feel a little more as if I come from someplace in particular.

Even the fall of a dancer is a somersault

Sheena Easton

I'm a terrible dancer. The worst.

Scott Steiner

Buff Bagwell ain't nothin' but a chippendale dancer!

Mia Hamm

If you've got hips, you can't be a gymnast or dancer. That ruled me out.

Michel De Certeau

When he grew old, Aristotle, who is not generally considered a tightrope dancer, liked to lose himself in the most labyrinthine and subtle of discourses […]. ‘The more solitary and isolated I become, the more I come to like stories,’ he said.