I'm a singer who moves like a dancer.
As a dancer I couldn't outdance Ginger Rogers or Eleanor Powell. As a singer I'm no rival to Doris Day. As an actress I don't take myself seriously...I'm the girl the truck drivers love.
All dancers are, by and large, a photographer's dream. They communicate with their bodies and they are trained to be completely responsive to a collaborative situation.
There are a lot of things that dancers can do that actors cannot and actors can do that dancers cannot.
What I mean is that none of my talents had a - what's that great word - rubric. A singer, an actor, a dancer - there was nothing I could really say I was. The writing came much later. And, actually, thank God, because if I had said I'm a singer, I would really have just had one thing to do.
One of our problems is our sense of discipline - dancers have an extraordinary sense of self-discipline.
Now I want to become an artist, rather than one thing, like a dancer, or a movie star, or a choreographer.
I look around me and I don’t see any rock’n’roll at the moment. Instead it’s all choreography and stylists and wigs and stuff. It’s like they’re afraid to let the music breathe. No one has their own identity like the Ronettes did back in the day. We had the skirts with the slits up the side, sort of tough, sort of Spanish Harlem cool, but sweet too. We didn’t have no dancers, we didn’t have no goddamn wigs.
If I can play one note and make you cry, then that's better than those fancy dancers playing twenty notes.
Actors are born, good actors are trained. Dancers are born, good dancers are trained.
Nobody is born a dancer.
I don't go to these places where there are belly dancers and this and that.
The dancer will not belong to a nation but to all humanity.
The actual cheerleaders in our film are all Broadway dancers.
I've been on stage since I was 7. That's where I'd rather be than anywhere else. Just because you can do a bunch of things doesn't mean you are a bunch of things. I can act. I can sing. But I am a dancer
I'm not a dancer, and it was very time-consuming. But I met great people, and it was flattering to be asked to be on. You don't understand how demanding that show is until you're on the inside. That is real work. Real work!
I'm your private dancer, a dancer for money, I'll do what you want me to do.
Western dance begins with its feet firmly planted on the ground whereas Butoh begins with a dance wherein the dancer tries in vain to find his feet
The life of a dancer is not for everyone. You really have to have some thick skin. You really have to know what you're going into and how competitive the field is.
Since the days of slavery, if you were a good singer or dancer, it was your job to perform for the master after dinner.
I actually wanted to be an exotic dancer, but that didn't work out so I thought I'd take on acting.
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.
Sabine gestured to him with the half-eaten crust. "I like him. Not sure why he's wasting his time with the pole dancer, though." Tod laughed out loud and I groaned. "Sophie takes ballet and jazz. She's not a pole dancer." "There's more money in pole dancing," Sabine insisted.
I'm not a great dancer. I know I'm not. But I know that I can move. I can throw shapes, just not in the right order.
Fred Astaire told me things I will never forget. Gene Kelly also said he liked my dancing. It was a fantastic experience because I felt I had been inducted into an informal fraternity of dancers, and I felt so honored because these were the people I most admired in the world.
