Famous Quotes & Sayings

FKA twigs

I moved to London to go to dance school when I was about 17, but then I realized that I didn't want to be a dancer anymore, so I dropped out after five or six weeks. All I wanted to do was sing and make music.

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.

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.

Anne Lamott

At our most primitive we are storytellers and dancers.

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.

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.

Drew Seeley

I think it's always great to not be the smartest person in the room because I don't want to ever feel like I can't improve upon what I'm doing. I just want to surround myself with people that are better actors than me and better singers and dancers and see what happens.

Patricia Velasquez

I think that comes from being a dancer and from being in the theater since I was four years old. It teaches you discipline.

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.

Paul Taylor

But painters are different, ... It's paint, paint, paint. It's a mania. But choreographers can't do that. You have to have your dancers to do it.

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.

Patricia McBride

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

We estimate that most professional dancers and students on a professional track probably do over 2 million little jumps a year. That's a lot of wear and tear.

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.

John Cullum

I was married to a dancer who had a dance company in New York City, and she toured.

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.

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.

Antony Tudor

My body can't demonstrate. It isn't willing to explore movements the way it used to. I've always had to find the movement in myself then show it in myself. If I've got the sense of movement for the character, I expect the dancer to get it too.

Jo Brand

The comedian sticks as religiously to her theme as a dancer sticks to a diet.

Katy B

I had wanted to be a dancer when I was younger. But at some point I figured out I was a better singer.

Lyndsy Fonseca

I wanted to be a dancer my whole life. And when I gave it up to act, I always had a really sad part of myself that missed it and missed performing and missed being physical in that way.

Maksim Chmerkovskiy

As a dancer, obviously, we are all inspired by Michael Jackson, and I always looked up to Gene Kelly. He was a bigger version of Fred Astaire, and he was amazing as well.