Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maura Tierney

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

Mads Mikkelsen

I became a dancer late and an actor late.

Catherine Mary Stewart

I realized that 'performing' was what I wanted to do when I did my first professional gig as a dancer with my company 'Synergy' in Canada. I was overwhelmed with how it felt to perform in front of an audience.

Dean Winters

I grew up in New York, and I've always been surrounded by fashion. My grandmother used to write for 'Vogue' in the '50s, and my mother was a dancer and a model.

George Balanchine

One is born to be a great dancer.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Ricki Lake

I am not a natural dancer.

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.

Rachel Stevens

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.