Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paz Vega

We are a very typical Spanish family - a bullfighter, an actress, a flamenco dancer and singer!

Marques Houston

You know Marques Houston, you know I'm a dancer, I'm a singer, but I wouldn't want to do a movie that I'm a dancer and a singer in. I want to do movies that people can take me more seriously in as an actor, because when you're making that transition, it is tough.

Neil Patrick Harris

I've got no plans to be a ballet dancer at the moment.

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.

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.

Lady Gaga

I wouldn't say that I am one of the greatest dancers, but I am really quite good at what I do.

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.

Joan Chen

I went to the International Ballet competition when I was 15 or 16 and that was the first time I competed. I didn't get very far but it was the first time that I realized what I needed to do to become a dancer. I realized how hard it was.

Robin Williams

Being a functioning alcoholic is kind of like being a paraplegic lap dancer - you can do it, just not as well as the others, really.

Rob Gronkowski

Julian Edelman. He's the worst dancer.

Victoria Beckham

I was an okay singer. I was an okay dancer. But acting? Never could do it.

Rita Rudner

When you're a dancer, you start with the basics. You don't all of a sudden do a grand jete and pirouette. You start with first position, second, third.

Subcomandante Marcos

In the cabaret of globalization, the state shows itself as a table dancer that strips off everything until it is left with only the minimum indispensable garments: the repressive force.

Suzanne Farrell

I liked to read but, being a dancer, I didn't have a lot of time to read.

Suzanne Farrell

I'm thought of as a cool, unemotional dancer, but inside I'm not.

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.

Shakira

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

Rachel Stevens

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

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.

Maddie Hasson

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

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.

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.

Twyla Tharp

I was interested in becoming a show dancer, for which I tried, but I'm not tall enough.

Twyla Tharp

Modern dancers should be doing things no one else is doing, and it should come from the gut..

Twyla Tharp

A dancer's life is all about repetition.

Ricki Lake

I am not a natural dancer.

Rupert Friend

I'm a terrible dancer.