Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Alex Meraz

I was a professional dancer before I was an actor.

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.

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.

Haley Webb

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

Even the fall of a dancer is a somersault

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.

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.

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.

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.

Agnes Varda

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

John Cullum

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

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.

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.

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.

That's the Claiborne way. That's the way it was with Mr. Prospector and Nijinsky, and that probably had a big influence on the longevity of their stallions careers. Northern Dancer wasn't a very fertile stallion, but all three of those, all of them his sons who stood here, had very long careers.

David Hallberg

Ballet needs figures that people can recognize and relate to. People don't know ballet dancers as well as they know other artists.

Jessica Pare

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