Dancer Quotes - Page 13

The highest heels I do are six-inch heels - but mostly only dancers can wear them, since they are used to being on point in ballet shoes. Their feet are arched.

In vocal choreography you had to give a lot of consideration to the fact that you were working with singers and not dancers. But you had to make singers look like they were dancers, and to make the movements as natural as possible, and there to be an association with the movement, uh, somewhat to what the lyric was saying.

As a dancer I've always checked my body constantly; 'Am I having a good day or am I having a fat day?'

There was this long lovely dancer in a little club downtown, love to watch her do her stuff.

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

My goal is to be the best TV presenter, the best entertainer, the best singer. I still want to be the best dancer. I want to be the best at everything I do.

I was a dancer. I was really seriously into dancing.

O, high the happy bosom heaves When love is in the dancer!

I have trod a measure, I have flattered a lady, I have been politic with my friend, smooth with mine enemy.

Say, what abridgement have you for this evening? What masque, what music? How shall we beguile The lazy time if not with some delight?

You ask what I have found and far and wide I go, Nothing but Cromwell's house and Cromwell's murderous crew, The lovers and the dancers are beaten into the clay, And the tall men and the swordsmen and the horsemen where are they?

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.

Dancers can get to see almost everything now. When I used to go into companies to make a piece, the dancers had hardly ever seen my work. Now they can watch it on YouTube. It means they're much faster at picking up material.

They call them performance artists, but they shouldn't be making an album. They should just be dancers. I don't know, I'm a musical snob. I feel like if you're going to record music and you're going to be a singer, you have to be able to sing.

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

The cat crossed the street daintily, pointing his feet like a ballet dancer, lifting them high as if his feet were too good for the pavement.

Dancing was a big part of my life, but I would never consider myself a dancer. I adore singing, and music has always been a huge part of my life, but I also enjoy acting.

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

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

I walk into a large white room. It's a dance studio in midtown Manhattan. The room is clean, virtually spotless if you don’t count the thousands of skid marks and footprints left there by dancers rehearsing. Other than the mirrors, the boom box, the skid marks, and me, the room is empty.

I heard a lot in school, 'You've got a really great talent, but there's no way you're going to be a dancer with that body.

I really wanted to make it as a ballet dancer to make my mom proud. But it didnt happen.

Writing is an art like other arts. Dancers don't dance every once in a while. Musicians don't stop practicing. They are dedicated to what they do.

I started out as a dancer as a kid; I've been dancing since I was 4. So performing was always part of what I was.

So I'm studying ballet every day and really training so people will see me as a ballet dancer, which no one's seen before.