Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Patricia McBride

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

Haley Webb

I will never give up my dream of being a prima ballerina and backup dancer for Justin Timberlake!

Anne Lamott

At our most primitive we are storytellers and dancers.

Cuba Gooding, Jr.

Before I was an actor I was a break dancer, one of those street performers you see. I guess my introduction into the professional world of performing was a stint as back up dancer for Lionel Richie and I performed at the closing ceremony at the '84 Olympics.

Donna Mills

I also loved musicals because I was a dancer.

Cris Judd

When I first moved to L.A. as a dancer, all I wanted to do was dance. I never even considered trying to act or direct.

Dustin Diamond

Stand-up in general is the most raw form of entertainment. There is no pyrotechnics or back-up dancers, it's just live and die by your jokes, that's it.

David Carradine

I was enough of an acrobat and a gymnast and a dancer and everything else so that I could handle the kung fu, because it's just choreography.

Andie MacDowell

Dancers work really hard, they don't make any money. It's hard.

Andy Warhol

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

Anais Nin

Coming near him like a ballet dancer she took a leap towards him, and he, frightened by her vehemence, and fearing that she would crash against him, instinctively became absolutely rigid, and she felt herself embracing a statue.

Annette Funicello

I always considered myself a dancer before anything else.

Anne Sexton

Someone is dead. Even the trees know it, those poor old dancers who come on lewdly, all pea-green scarfs and spine pole.

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.

Billy Eichner

I'm not much of a dancer.

Bobby Orr

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

Bella Thorne

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

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.

Ed Sheeran

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

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.

Agnes Varda

If I was tall and blonde, I might have been a dancer or singer.

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.

Adam Lambert

I would love to do a live show with dancers and fashion and scenic elements - definitely bring my love of the theater to a concert-style performance.

Jessica Pare

I'm not a trained dancer - I know, I know, you're shocked, I'm sure.

Jenna Elfman

No. It's on films I've done and such. And I was a dancer and I performed music videos. It's just, I've been around.

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.

If you cloned Northern Dancer and put him out to race, he might end up just being an also-ran,

Isadora Duncan

The dancer will not belong to any nation but to all humanity.

Dean Winters

I grew up in New York, and I've always been surrounded by fashion. My grandmother used to write for 'Vogue' in the '50s, and my mother was a dancer and a model.