Famous Quotes & Sayings

Victoria Beckham

I was an okay singer. I was an okay dancer. But acting? Never could do it.

Jerry Hall

My favorite dancer is Sylvie Guillem.

Jeremy Bulloch

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

Jeff Goldblum

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

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

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.

Gillian Jacobs

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

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.

Felicity Jones

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

Francesca Annis

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

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

Cassandra Clare

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

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.

Even the fall of a dancer is a somersault

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.

Kirsten Smith

He called us and said there was this gifted dancer he'd seen. We saw him and granted him a full scholarship to the festival and now he's on tour with us.

Rob Marshall

great beauty, was a great dancer and had incredible spirit. There was no question at all when I met her.

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.

Robert Pinsky

If I live near a dancer or a painter, or a clarinet player comes from my neighborhood, I take some pleasure in that, feel a little more as if I come from someplace in particular.

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.

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.

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.

Jo Brand

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

George Balanchine

One is born to be a great dancer.