Best Dancer Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 9

“Egyptian President Sadat had a belly dancer entertain President Nixon at a state dinner. Mr. Nixon was really impressed. He hadn't seen contortions like that since Rose Mary Woods.”

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Author:Johnny Carson

“There's an appreciation, not unlike that for dancers or tightrope walkers, of the body undergoing tests and coming through them by courage and technique; a desire for "clean" results.”

Body Desire Results Tests Clean Appreciation Technique Dancer Walkers

Author:Richard Gilman

“Oh, when I was a kid, I was poor. Christmas, I got no presents. Well, there was one Christmas, on our front lawn - Prancer and Dancer - they dropped off a little something.”

Wells Littles Kids Poor Fronts Dancer Lawns

Author:Rodney Dangerfield

“With girls I get no respect. A belly dancer told me I turned her stomach.”

Girl Respect Dancer Stomach Belly No Respect

Author:Rodney Dangerfield

“I remember from when I use to be a dancer, there is an expression among dancers, I had a T-shirt that said: SHUT UP AND DANCE.”

Said Use Remember Expression Shirts Dancer Shut Up T Shirt Use To Be

Author:Christopher Walken

“I was always a natural performer. It was easy for me. I danced and I sang, and all that stuff. I felt like I'd be something in the arts, but it vacillated between being a dancer and a singer, or whatever.”

Art Felt Easy Stuff Natural Singers Dancer Performers

Author:Kari Matchett

“In order to dance professionally, you have to start at a young age. No matter what, your muscle structure and your bones have to be groomed from a very young age. Nobody wakes up at 17 and decides to become a ballet dancer. I'm saying that and someone's going to be born tomorrow who decides to do that and I'm going to have my foot in my mouth.”

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Author:Joan Chen

“I danced in a Lifetime film. We shot in Canada and I got to work with a lot of the dancers who do So You Think You Can Dance, Canada.”

Thinking Film Shots Lifetime Dancer Canada

Author:Joan Chen

“I remember watching Swan Lake and everybody looking exactly the same, but being able to relate because they were the only company I had ever seen even on video that had Asian dancers. The Asian community in Hawaii is actually almost as dominant as the Caucasian community. I thought "I can relate to that company because they look like people that I see every day." They weren't all little stick-thin Russian ballerinas.”

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Author: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.”

Firsts Hard Needed First Time Competition International I Realized Dancer Ballet

Author:Joan Chen

“I'm the only person on Earth who's not afraid to admit that black people are better dancers than white people! I said it, I said it! You were all thinking it, I said it!”

People Thinking Persons Said Earth Black White Dancer Black People Not Afraid

Author:Carlos Mencia

“Before I got into stand-up, I used to be a hip-hop dancer in a crew, and my name was J. Smoove, and my partner was J. Groove.”

Used Names Hip Hop Partners Used To Be Hips Dancer Hops Crew Groove

Author:J. B. Smoove

“In France, ballet is on TV ... It's on the eight-o'clock news. It's a cool thing to be a dancer.”

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Author:Benjamin Millepied

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

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Author:Lady Gaga

“May I just single out for salutations, on the "anti-war" side: Pop Stars For Appeasement, Dancers Against Democracy, Actors For Apathy, Fashionistas For Fascism and Jugglers For Genocide. All of them united under that flaccid flag of convenience, Show-Offs For Saddam.”

May War Shows Actors Stars Sides United Democracy Pops Dancer Genocide Fascism Flags Anti War Apathy Saddam Convenience Pop Stars Appeasement Fashionista Jugglers Salutations

Author:Julie Burchill

“Dance is bigger than the physical body. When you extend your arm, it doesn't stop at the end of your fingers, because you're dancing bigger than that; you're dancing spirit.”

Source: Dancing Spirit: An Autobiography

“Stand-up in general is the most raw form of entertainment. There is no pyrotechnics or back-up dancers, it's just live and die by your jokes, that's it.”

Form Dies Jokes Entertainment Dancer Just Live Pyrotechnics

Author:Dustin Diamond

“I'm not a dancer, and it was very time-consuming. But I met great people, and it was flattering to be asked to be on. You don't understand how demanding that show is until you're on the inside. That is real work. Real work!”

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Author:Wendy Williams

“I was never a dancer before 'Shake It Up'.”

Dancer Shakes Shake It Up

Author:Bella Thorne

“We insist on permanency, on continuity, when the only continuity possible is in growth, in freedom, in the sense that the dancers are free, barely touching as they pass but partners in the same pattern. The only real security in a relationship lies neither in looking back in nostalgia, nor forward with dread or anticipation, but living in the present and accepting the relationship as it is now.”

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Author:Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“I went to an arts school as a kid. We had to take dance every other day, along with drama, music and visual arts. However, wearing black tights was something I dreaded... and still have nightmares about it to this day. I think I was a pretty good dancer. I suppose that training helped me land parts in musicals... or has just given me nightmares!”

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Author:Jake Epstein

“At our most primitive we are storytellers and dancers.”

Dancer Primitive Storyteller

Author:Anne Lamott

“Dancers can get to see almost everything now. When I used to go into companies to make a piece, the dancers had hardly ever seen my work. Now they can watch it on YouTube. It means they're much faster at picking up material.”

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Author:Wayne McGregor

“I started as a tap dancer in Durban, which is on the coast. That was an important part of growing up, turning on the radio in the morning and hearing Zulu singing or the news in Zulu.”

Important Morning Growing Up Growing News Singing Radio Hearing Dancer Coast Tap Dancers Durban

Author:Roselee Goldberg

“I grew up as a dancer. I did tap, classical ballet, all of that. I did Indian dancing, or Bharata Natyam, classic temple dancing from Madras, originally. My mother always had the great idea that I should learn it.”

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Author:Roselee Goldberg

“There's a moment when you say, "Okay, I'm not going to become a dancer. I'm not going to become a painter." So in a sense, I ended up writing about those big conflicts that I felt.”

Writing Moments Bigs Felt Conflict Okay Painter Dancer

Author:Roselee Goldberg

“In vocal choreography you had to give a lot of consideration to the fact that you were working with singers and not dancers. But you had to make singers look like they were dancers, and to make the movements as natural as possible, and there to be an association with the movement, uh, somewhat to what the lyric was saying.”

Giving Looks Facts Natural Movement Singers Dancer Consideration Association Vocal Choreography

Author:Cholly Atkins

“I try to, at least once or twice a week, have someone over and model, usually a dancer friend or a poet or someone to come over and just stay still for me. Depending on how exhibitionist they are, it will determine the finished work. And I say, "You're the muse; you come up with it. I'll draw you however you want."”

Want Trying Stills Week Poet Models Draws Determine Come Up Finished Dancer Muse Finished Work Exhibitionist

Author:Eric Drooker

“I'm not much of a dancer.”

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Author:Billy Eichner

“I don't have many actors in my family, but I do have a Great Uncle that is a film-maker in Philadelphia, and my great-great-grandparents were Flamenco dancers in the 30's in New York, they were Spanish dancers.”

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Author:Aubrey Plaza

“I know hands down I would lose for sure, but I would love to just dance with Beyoncé. Really, that's what my dream is. She is such a good dancer and I know I would lose, like hands down I know I would lose, but I just want to be in her presence and see her dance up close. She is so good, I am literally obsessed with her and I think she's amazing.”

Thinking Knows Want Dream Hands Loses Obsessed Dancer Just Dance

Author:Alana Haim

“That's a traditional Samoan dance. I was lucky that I was able to fly my cousins, who are professional dancers, up from Hawaii and they were able to be in the movie with me. We had a great time.”

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Author:Dwayne Johnson

“I've always been athletic and a dancer, so I love doing fight choreography.”

Fighting Dancer Athletic Choreography

Author:Katrina Law

“I was a dancer before I was an actress, so I've always been someone who likes to communicate from my body and movement.”

Body Movement Communicate Actresses Likes Dancer

Author:Caity Lotz

“I'm not naturally a gifted dancer, and I don't enjoy it. I didn't go to any of those classes in drama school 'cause I was like, "I'm not going to dance. I don't need to learn to dance." I regret that.”

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Author:Richard Madden

“I think there's something about dancers, they never ever forget where they come from. They never get grand, no matter what success they have.”

Thinking Matter Forget No Matter What Dancer

Author:Ruthie Henshall

“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.”

Ifs Body Range Dancer Performers

Author:Karen Allen

“I feel like I put it together better than anybody else. I don't feel like I'm the best dancer. I don't feel like I'm the best singer. I don't feel like I'm the best looking. I feel like I'm the best at putting it all together.”

Feels Together Singers Dancer

Author:Ginuwine

“Shake It Up is a buddy comedy based around dance. It's about two best friends Rocky and CeCe who live out their dream as background dancers on a show called Shake It Up Chicago. They have to navigate life as young teens going to school and dancing on the show.”

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Author:Zendaya

“They call them performance artists, but they shouldn't be making an album. They should just be dancers. I don't know, I'm a musical snob. I feel like if you're going to record music and you're going to be a singer, you have to be able to sing.”

Ifs Knows Feels Should Able Artist Records Performances Musical Albums Singers Dancer Snob

Author:Warryn Campbell

“Making the ballet really taught me how to get things moving. Ballet dancers don't stand still.”

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Author:Guy Maddin

“I've usually never felt comfortable shooting until things were kind of claustrophobic, but ballet dancers need a lot of space, so the sets that I designed had to be big. Normally, I'd design a kitchen that was half the size of a normal kitchen, just to make everything feel kind of womb-like, but the kitchen in a ballet would have to be like 100 feet wide and just as long.”

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Author:Guy Maddin

“My whole family is in the arts some way or the other. My father was a cellist in a symphony outside Chicago that was a side-job, he was a scientist. My mother was a dancer in New York. She was next-door neighbors with Dorothy Loudon and they moved to New York together. Mom was a dancer in New York for several years before she got married. My sister was a classical pianist. And my brother was a partier. So it all just seemed to work.”

“I initially told people I wanted to be a dancer and ultimately a "Rockette." I didn't really know what a musical theatre performer was other than the Shirley Temple type.”

People Knows Wanted Type Musical Theatre Dancer Temples Performers Old People Musical Theatre

Author:Erica Schroeder

“Maybe I'd be a storyboard artist. Graphic novel/comic book artist. Backup dancer. Singer. It would be cool to focus on one of these full time. But I like seeing them all intertwine.”

Book Would Be Artist Novel Focus Seeing Singers Comic Dancer Comic Book Graphic Being Cool Graphic Novels Backup

Author:Jade Hassoune

“I have a sister who is a dancer and dance teacher. We grew up dancing together. I wanted to become a ballerina when I was a kid, so she and I were always at ballet conservatories and going to school with our hair in buns.”

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Author:Mary Elizabeth Winstead

“When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire.”

Kind Littles Wanted Girl Vampire Dancer Ballet Ballet Dancer Ghouls

Author:Angelina Jolie

“I was a dancer. I was really seriously into dancing.”

Dancing Dancer

Author:Zeena Parkins

“I wanted to be a dancer from when I was about nine or something like that and started ballet. I used to really like it and got into it and did it full time for a couple of years. I did a lot of ballet but I traded that in for acting when I was about 15.”

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Author:Mia Wasikowska

“My goal has always been to be a principal dancer with ABT.”

Goal Dancer Principal

Author:Misty Copeland

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