Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Trey Songz

I'm no dancer. I got rhythm, I can dance if I need to, but I'm not Chris Brown. He's an amazing dancer. If I'm not going to be amazing at it, I'm not gon' do it. I'm gonna do what works for me, and you're going to feel it 'cause it's me.

Martine McCutcheon

I've been told if you're an actress you can't sing, if you're a dancer you can't act, you can't do theatre and be respected if you've done a TV soap, you can't have a No. 1 record. All these different things they've told me I can't do, but I wanted to do them, so I've done them.

Rita Rudner

When you're a dancer, you start with the basics. You don't all of a sudden do a grand jete and pirouette. You start with first position, second, third.

Ricki Lake

I am not a natural dancer.

Twyla Tharp

I was interested in becoming a show dancer, for which I tried, but I'm not tall enough.

Twyla Tharp

Modern dancers should be doing things no one else is doing, and it should come from the gut..

Twyla Tharp

A dancer's life is all about repetition.

Victoria Beckham

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

Subcomandante Marcos

In the cabaret of globalization, the state shows itself as a table dancer that strips off everything until it is left with only the minimum indispensable garments: the repressive force.

Paz Vega

We are a very typical Spanish family - a bullfighter, an actress, a flamenco dancer and singer!

Leslie Caron

There were many good actresses in my time like Jane Powell and Debbie Reynolds, but I was the only dancer.

Suzanne Farrell

I liked to read but, being a dancer, I didn't have a lot of time to read.

Suzanne Farrell

I'm thought of as a cool, unemotional dancer, but inside I'm not.

Susanna Hoffs

You realize you can get good at something, even though ballet almost felt like you could never be good enough. No matter how hard you worked, it was so hard to be a great dancer.

Neil Patrick Harris

I've got no plans to be a ballet dancer at the moment.

Rupert Friend

I'm a terrible dancer.

Shakira

I'm not a trained dancer, but I grew up in a culture that revolves around dance.

Rachel Stevens

My personal trainer is an ex-dancer so we do a lot of ballet and jazz.

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.