Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Karen Allen

If you just work on your upper body, you're not going to be a full-range dancer or performer. You've got to work in all directions as much as you possibly can.

Lyndsy Fonseca

I wanted to be a dancer my whole life. And when I gave it up to act, I always had a really sad part of myself that missed it and missed performing and missed being physical in that way.

Maksim Chmerkovskiy

As a dancer, obviously, we are all inspired by Michael Jackson, and I always looked up to Gene Kelly. He was a bigger version of Fred Astaire, and he was amazing as well.

Maddie Hasson

I was a dancer first, which made me realize how much I loved performing.

John Cleese

I was a terrible dancer. I dance like an Englishman.

Marques Houston

You know Marques Houston, you know I'm a dancer, I'm a singer, but I wouldn't want to do a movie that I'm a dancer and a singer in. I want to do movies that people can take me more seriously in as an actor, because when you're making that transition, it is tough.

Maura Tierney

I really wanted to be a dancer, but I just wasn't good enough to do that so that didn't happen.

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.

Robin Williams

Being a functioning alcoholic is kind of like being a paraplegic lap dancer - you can do it, just not as well as the others, really.

Rob Gronkowski

Julian Edelman. He's the worst dancer.

Willem Dafoe

Sometimes I say I feel more like a dancer than an actor, because there are things implied about being an actor that I don't really like. I feel more comfortable with the word 'performer'. I like being the thing. I like being the doer. There's a factualness to it. And then certain resonances happen out of how you apply yourself physically.

Wim Wenders

There are a lot of things that dancers can do that actors cannot and actors can do that dancers cannot.

Zhang Ziyi

It's not that I wanted to be an actor; it's that I didn't want to be a dancer! I was trained in traditional Chinese dance, and after working so hard it seemed unfair to just disappear into a group.