Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

Margaret Cho

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

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.

P. G. Wodehouse

As a dancer, I out-Fred the nimblest Astaire.

Martha Graham

I have spent all my life with dance and being a dancer. It's permitting life to use you in a very intense way. Sometimes it is not pleasant. Sometimes it is fearful. But nevertheless it is inevitable.

Martha Graham

You can be Eastern or Burmese or what have you, but the function of the body and the awareness of the body results in dance and you become a dancer, not just a human being.

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.

Mads Mikkelsen

I became a dancer late and an actor late.

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.

Scott Steiner

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

Tom Hiddleston

Out of 10 how enthusiastic a dancer am I? 11

Solange Knowles

I actually was a ballet dancer - I studied ballet from three until 13 - but like very seriously, that's what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a contemporary ballet dancer. I wanted to go to Juilliard.

Rajneesh

Ego cannot bring anything extraordinary into the world; the extraordinary comes only through egolessness. And so is the case with the musician and the poet and the dancer. So is the case with everybody.

Jon M. Chu

Each dancer has a different dialect that they speak.

Jon M. Chu

I like to dance, but I'm not a dancer.

Sheena Easton

I'm a terrible dancer. The worst.

Joan Chen

I went to the International Ballet competition when I was 15 or 16 and that was the first time I competed. I didn't get very far but it was the first time that I realized what I needed to do to become a dancer. I realized how hard it was.

Lady Gaga

I wouldn't say that I am one of the greatest dancers, but I am really quite good at what I do.

Judith Jamison

Maybe its a generational thing, but I never wanted to be the best black dancer in the world. I just wanted to be the best.

Judith Jamison

If you look at a dancer in silence, his or her body will be the music. If you turn the music on, that body will become an extension of what you're hearing.