Famous Quotes & Sayings

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

You'll be bothered from time to time by storms, fog, snow. When you are, think of those who went through it before you, and say to yourself, 'What they could do, I can do.'

Beeban Kidron

Making a big commercial movie is hard when you think about how many of them flop.

Bebe Neuwirth

People are at their happiest if they are true to themselves. I think that applies to their chosen profession, friends and relationships. It goes for your health too. If you are true to yourself, it seems to me everything should work out pretty well

Beck

For the records I've work on over the last 10 years, I get sent the really compressed version and the non-compressed version, and oftentimes you end up going with the more compressed one because it's what people's ears are attuned to. I think the bigger problem is saturation and people being desensitized.

Beck

I do think music sounds better when it's on tape and more simply recorded.

Beck

Sometimes, I think the way the music business has been destructive and the way the fans are been put through it and try to navigate through it, so much is so foreign to what musicians would actually want to do or what would be natural to them.

Beck

I think it's interesting being American, the expectations for an American guy, and the image that has to be projected. 'Oh, I can't wear pink,' that kind of stuff. There's none of that in Europe.

Beck

I think trying to be offbeat is the most boring thing possible.

Beck

I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.

Bebe Neuwirth

When you're a dancer who is injured, you are at the bottom of the food chain. We are so replaceable.

Bebe Neuwirth

Certainly the life of a dancer is very difficult. The training is very hard and relentlessly grueling.

Bebe Neuwirth

I've never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Wouldn't have pegged you for a dancer," he spoke to my mind "Funny, I would have pegged you for a stalker," I shot back.

Christina Hendricks

I was a dancer until I was 19. I never had to worry about working out or what I ate. So I've really had to train myself to get down to the gym.

Kimberly Schmitz

The American Indian Exposition has a new twist this year. It's not just American Indians. They have dancers from South America. They are here to show their wares as well.

David Hallberg

I think I'm the same dancer everywhere. But I've learned a lot with Bolshoi - the history of the theater, the technique of the theater, different nuances in my technique.

Sofia Carson

I always wanted to make a pop record. I'm a dancer myself, so I want to make something that people listen to and just want to dance to.

Bebe Neuwirth

I'll always be a dancer first, ... Chicago.

Robert Gottlieb

Melissa Barak, an ex-City Ballet dancer and sometime choreographer, has put together an unspeakably dopey and incompetent mess called 'Call Me Ben,' combining ultra-generic dance, terrible dialogue and disastrous storytelling, about the founding of Las Vegas by the gangster Bugsy Siegel, who insists, violently, on being addressed as 'Ben.'

Jessica White

My mother and my father always had me in ballet and dance, and I sang in a girl's group.

Sarah Brightman

I don't force myself to exercise; I find going to gyms really boring. I find it easier to go for a fast walk or a jog in Central Park. I wear sensible shoes because my ballet dancing left me with a bunion on one foot after all the pointe exercises.

Charlize Theron

I come from a ballet background; I did ballet for 12 years and I consider that my theater. I told stories with my body for 12 years and then came into this industry. I couldn't let go of that and it's still important to me. I really wanted to learn the skills of what Aeon had. I wanted to learn gymnastics; I didn't want to just be on wires and fake everything. I learned some skills I never thought I would learn.

Sierra McCormick

If I'm at a party, I can put on some crazy dance moves. However, it's not synchronized, beautiful or choreographed like a ballet dancer. I'd love to be graceful like that.

Raymond Rodriguez

I feel that Ballet San Jose Silicon Valley is strong and on the right path for establishing an institution that will thrive for many years to come.

Marques Houston

I didn't grow up on dance class. I was always natural. I've been in the industry since I was eight and I've always had a choreographer since then. But I never really took ballet or anything like that.

Leila Janah

I love dancing and practiced ballet for ten years until I realized I wouldn't make it professionally - then I started taking salsa classes. I learned to dance samba in Rio and Salvador when I lived in Brazil.

Cynthia Anderson

I think it's Harris Ferris who made the difference. His vision is that what makes a successful ballet company is the cohesion of music and dance.