Famous Quotes & Sayings

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tighrope dancer so that no incompetent would dare step upon it.

Judith Jamison

People don't remember me for how high my legs went, even though they went up very high, and how many pirouettes I did. They don't remember me for that. They remember me and any other dancer because something touched them inside. It's an indelible memory on the heart and in the mind.

Robert Gottlieb

The mystery of Christopher Wheeldon deepens. Yes, he's the most talented of the younger ballet choreographers - indeed, where's the competition? Yes, he's particularly good at nurturing dancers and identifying their essential qualities.

You meet new friends and meet old friends. Dancers learn new steps, and drummers learn new songs.

Jerry Hall

My favorite dancer is Sylvie Guillem.

Jeremy Bulloch

I'm not a singer, and I'm not a brilliant dancer.

Cassandra Clare

Well, I'm certainly not Ragnor Fell the exotic dancer.

Gillian Jacobs

I'm a pretty goofy person. I'm an awkward dancer, for instance, and a terrible singer.

James Brown

I taught them everything they know, but not everything I know.

Elton John

Hold me closer tiny dancer, count the headlights on the highway. Lay me down in sheets of linen, you had a busy day today.

Jennifer Garner

I was a ballet dancer and that kind of bled into musical theater. I was constantly in rehearsal for one thing or another.

Jennifer Lopez

I was always a singer and a dancer, and I always wanted to be an actress. For me, it's all just one thing.

Jennifer Lopez

I just knew that was what I wanted to do. I was going to perform as a singer; I was going to perform as a dancer, and I was, you know, going to do movies and be an actress. I was going to do it or die trying. That's what my life was

Jackson Browne

Into a dancer you have grown from the seeds somebody else has sown

Francesca Annis

I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.

Felicity Jones

I'm more of a freestyle dancer. I like to do my own thing.

Jeff Goldblum

I don't go to these places where there are belly dancers and this and that.

Gelsey Kirkland

I embarked on a risky course of plastic surgery and silicone injections, major dental realignments and gruesome medical procedures. I pray that young dancers, those who imitate me at their peril, will avoid this blind alley. It is more than a dead end; it is a dead beginning.

Even the fall of a dancer is a somersault

Mads Mikkelsen

I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.

I've always been physical. I loved sports growing up. I was never specifically a dancer or anything like that.

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.

It's not mechanical. People just let go. The drummers are animated. Their hands reflect every gesture the dancers do. There are a lot of quick steps with the feet, shoulders, waist, hips and breasts.

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.

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.

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

Erin Morgenstern

Could you do such things when you were a dancer?' Tara asks her, as Tsukiko pulls a leg up impossibly far over her head. 'I would have had a much busier social calendar if I could,' Mme. Padva replies with a shake of her head.

Erin Morgenstern

The Burgess sisters arrived together. Tara and Lainie do a little bit of everything. Sometimes dancers, sometimes actresses. Once they were librarians, but that is a subject they will only discuss if heavily intoxicated.

Kristin Cavallari

I'm not a big dancer!

Mike Birbiglia

Backup dancers are completely respectable. They're the studio musicians of dance.

Georg Brandes

I became an ardent, but never a specially good, dancer.

Gene Kelly

It fit into my scheme of things for many reasons. At the time it was true that male dancers were looked down upon, and it was true that a lot of the male dancers were effeminate. But what I was really trying to do was develop something that would be American.