Dancer Quotes - Page 5

What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.

The philosopher's soul dwells in his head, the poet's soul is in his heart; the singer's soul lingers about his throat, but the soul of the dancer abides in all her body.

I think I just have this need to be a storyteller. That's why I wasn't a great dancer - I couldn't articulate a story. I was a better choreographer. I have the need to to just express myself in that way. I can't explain it.

My goal has always been to be a principal dancer with ABT.

I'm not an egomaniac like a lot of people say. But I am the world's best dancer, that's for sure.

The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body. I don't leap and jump anymore. I look at young dancers, and I am envious, more aware of what glories the body contains. But sensitivity is not made dull by age.

The noblest art is the nude. This truth is recognized by all, and followed by painters, sculptors and poets. Only the dancer has forgotten it, who should remember it, as the instrument of [the dance] art is the human body itself.

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

Being one with life is being one with Now. You then realize that you don't live your life, but life lives you. Life is the dancer, and you are the dance.

I don't think of myself as a dancer. I think of myself as a singer-actress who moves really well.

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

I am NOT a belly dancer. I have never been one, and never will be. What I do is not what Hollywood vulgarly calls 'belly dance', but it's art. I have traveled the world to prove that my dance is not a dance of the belly but a refined, artistic dance full of tradition, of dreaming and beauty. Oriental dance is primarily an expressive dance; in that resides the beauty.

I was a gymnast for many years before I was a dancer, so it comes in pretty handy when I do stunts.

Many girls want to be carnal with me because I'm such a premium dancer.

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

When I was younger I'd berate myself: You're fat, you're not a good dancer, you'll never have a boyfriend. I don't sweat that kind of stuff anymore. Now every day is a miracle. I've also learned that if something is painful or upsetting, you shouldn't hide from it. You should make it part of your life instead.

A jazz musician is a combination orator, dialectician, mathematician, athlete, entertainer, poet, singer, dancer, diplomat, educator, student, comedian, artist, seducer, public masturbator, and general all-round good fellow.

The moon has become a dancer at this festival of LOVE.

If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts.

Hoop Dancer is a rendering of my understanding of the process by which one enters into timelessness -- that place where one is whole.

You cannot dance physically certain things. But look at tango dancers or flamenco or Japanese classical theater. You can, if you're smart enough and you collaborate with the right choreographers, you could really dance your age.

People strangely revere dance. They see it as another world, and dancers are somehow mysterious - just because they don't speak.

you...are...a...frige...with...wings...we...are...freaking...ballet...dancers!

A dancer on break approached him. She smiled. Each tooth was angled in a different direction, as if her mouth were the masterwork of a mad orthodontist. "Hi," she said. "Hi." "You're really cute." "I don't have any money." She spun and walked away. Ah, romance.

If I had an extra 20 or 50 years physically, I could have been the dancer of my dreams. But I never became that dancer.