Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

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.

Paz Vega

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

Lady Gaga

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

Leslie Caron

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

Neil Patrick Harris

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

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.

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.

Rupert Friend

I'm a terrible 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.

Victoria Beckham

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.