Dancer Quotes - Page 15

He was one of those earnest, persevering dancers--the kind that have taken twelve correspondence lessons.

Yoga changed my body 100 percent. It tones everything and leans you out. Dancer's pose is amazing. It works every muscle!

You have to imagine - for those who are good dancers, maybe they don't have to train as much - but for me at least, not being a very good dancer you have to hit the reset button every week and come in on Tuesday, the day after the live show, and start all over and learn a whole new dance with a whole new set of emphasis. Some weeks, you want to have body doing one thing. The next week, it's a totally different thing. You always have to relearn everything on a weekly basis and it takes a lot of work mentally and physically.

A lot of people don't know the first time I was ever on national television I was a 'Soul Train' dancer.

Shall we go dance the hay, the hay? Never pipe could ever play Better shepherd's roundelay.

He stared up at the stars: and it seemed to him then that they were dancers, stately and graceful, performing a dance almost infinite in its complexity.

I always thought I was going to be a dancer and then fashion kind of took over.

My son is a better dancer than me. I always try to encourage him in his endeavours.

I will never be the best dancer or artist. I will be growing until the day I retire.

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

Ideally if I settled down with a wife I would love to form my own troupe of mini dancers!

My dancers are the real stars.

I was born with rhythm but I don't know if - I'm not a break dancer.

Dancers are kept in a perpetual state of pre-puberty, and for young girls in particular, that type of pressure breeds insecurities.

I wanted to be a dancer from when I was about nine or something like that and started ballet. I used to really like it and got into it and did it full time for a couple of years. I did a lot of ballet but I traded that in for acting when I was about 15.

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

I've been to strip clubs where the dancers have these whole routines that they create just for the wow factor and to say, 'Look how strong and physically fit I am.' Most women couldn't do it, and it's not necessarily sexual. It's just a performance.

Each time a dancer moves devoutly or a composer faithfully searches the silence for the veiled melodies, eternity is engaged.

I really wanted to be a dancer, but I just wasn't good enough to do that so that didn't happen.

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.

How many leaps did Nijinksy take before he made the one that startled the world? He took thousands and thousands and it is that legend that gives us the courage, the energy, and arrogance to go back into the studio knowing that while there is so little time to be born to the instant, you will work again among the many that you may once more be born as one. That is a dancer's world.

I’m a dancer who cannot dance.

His movements were so graceful that I wondered if he had been a dancer, but his words betrayed to me that his fluid gestures were those of a trained killer.

I'm not a trained dancer in the slightest.

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.