Famous Quotes & Sayings

Twyla Tharp

Desire is the first thing a modern dancer should have. Skill can be developed. But if you don't have desire as a modern dancer, forget it.

Twyla Tharp

When I say I can see through clothes, sometimes I try to use it as an X-ray vision to look into the dancer and see who this dancer is right now, at this exact moment in time. I live inside them in a way.

Dick Van Dyke

I've always been a bit of an orphan, because actors say, 'Well, he's more of a dancer.' And dancers say, 'No. He's really a singer.' And singers say, 'No. He's an actor.'

Bebe Neuwirth

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

I was a dancer of no repute. But dance taught me a lot. You walk into a dance studio knowing you have to walk out with a dance. You improvise.

Sheridan Smith

As a kid, I was a dancer in Dick Whittington, Snow White and Cinderella. When I was 14, I played Baby Bear. I had a big head on, and you couldn't see my face. My mum was very disappointed.

Jane Seymour

I just did a film in which I had to be a dancer and I was able to do all kinds of extraordinary things. A lot of people turn 50 and talk about what they're not going to do anymore. I embarked on something that I'd wanted to do when I was 5.

David Foster

I told Celine Dion not to record that 'Titanic' song. That's about as big as you can get. 'Flashdance?' I thought, 'Welder by day, disco dancer by night - who wants to see that?'

Francia Raisa

I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commercials and doing guest star roles. My first big thing, which happened maybe six months after being discovered, was 'Bring It On: All or Nothing.'

Fanny Howe

I was a go-go dancer at the Dom on East 10th Street in NYC. This was a glittering ballroom over Stanley's Bar. 1965.

Today, dancers have so much more information and are much more mobile. Kids are traveling everywhere to go to summer programs, funding themselves with Kickstarter - putting their dreams on the Internet and seeing if they will pan out.

Nigel Lythgoe

I trained in every form of dance - started as a tap dancer when I was a kid, then contemporary, ballet, ballroom, everything. Russian, Swedish.

Melissa Rosenberg

I remember when I was a dancer and I had to do this performance and I was really nervous about it, and I happened at that moment to go see 'Flashdance.' I mean, it's silly, but I walked out of that movie going 'what a feeling!' I walked out with confidence.

Deborah Bull

Young dancers are training at a very vulnerable time in their lives, through adolescence, and while they are trying to work out who they are as people, never mind as a dancer. So train the whole person, not just the dancer.

Patricia McBride

In Europe, a great dancer might be on the same level as a movie star. In America, not so.

Maya Angelou

I was a dancer for many years. I was a premier dancer with 'Porgy and Bess,' the opera. And I taught dance some, in different places.

Caity Lotz

I like my feet. I have a tattoo on my foot with my last name. They're dancer feet. They're pretty. My toes are proportioned nicely. And they're strong - I can pinch people with my toes.

Al Pacino

All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.

Caity Lotz

I was a dancer before I was an actress, so I've always been someone who likes to communicate from my body and movement.

Billy Eichner

I'm not much of a dancer.

Ed Sheeran

If I ever have any back-up dancers, I want the penguins from Madagascar.

Bobby Orr

I'm a terrible dancer! Oh, I'm an awful dancer!

Lea Thompson

I had been a ballet dancer and never could make a living, and just being so excited that I got to, all of a sudden, live as an actor.

Bella Thorne

I was never a dancer before 'Shake It Up'.

Catherine Mary Stewart

I realized that performing was what I wanted to do when I did my first professional gig as a dancer with my company Synergy in Canada. I was overwhelmed with how it felt to perform in front of an audience.

Bruce Forsyth

It's important for a dancer to wear very tight underpants. I used to feel a bit exposed if I wasn't being held up in the right place.

Brooke Langton

The actual cheerleaders in our film are all Broadway dancers.

Eckhart Tolle

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.

Ben Okri

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

Mitchell Baker

There are dancers and painters and writers who pursued that whether or not they are paid for it. There are a lot of technologists who are the same.

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.

Michael Clarke

But that's why I had to. I couldn't finish anything, or communicate, or make decisions about what the dancers should do. I was at a very isolated place in my mind. I was always incredibly obsessive about my work, and I don't know how much I made that more extreme by drug use. But I'm glad not to be that person now.

Adam Sandler

I prefer musicals, because I am the best dancer who ever lived. The best plies, the best sashays, and by far the best-smelling Capezios.