Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Hallberg

I love the dancers in the Bolshoi, but all of my Moscow friends are outside the company. A friend introduced me to Vika Gazinskaya, a well-known Russian designer. I met her group. The rest is history.

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.

Cassandra Clare

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

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.

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.

Isadora Duncan

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

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.

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

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.

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.

At intervals between the songs, more especially after the trances have begun, the dancers unclasp hands and sit down to smoke or talk for a few minutes.

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

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.

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.

Mike Birbiglia

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

Mikhail Baryshnikov

I have been very lucky to work in so many new ballets, but that is what a dancer's work is.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Dancers are stripped enough onstage. You don't have to know more about them than they've given you already.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

I am not the first straight dancer or the last.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

No one is born a dancer. You have to want it more than anything.

Margaret Cho

Since I became a dancer, I have felt much better about myself.

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.

Glenn Roeder

I've never fancied myself as a pole dancer.

Naomi Watts

I have a bit of a frustrated dancer in me.

Mithun Chakraborty

Actors are born, good actors are trained. Dancers are born, good dancers are trained.

Jeff Goldblum

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

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.

Scott Steiner

Buff Bagwell ain't nothin' but a chippendale dancer!

Patricia Velasquez

I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.

Mia Hamm

If you've got hips, you can't be a gymnast or dancer. That ruled me out.

Michel De Certeau

When he grew old, Aristotle, who is not generally considered a tightrope dancer, liked to lose himself in the most labyrinthine and subtle of discourses […]. ‘The more solitary and isolated I become, the more I come to like stories,’ he said.