Top 802 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Dancers - Page 2

Before all, you need to know who you are, what you believe in, and what you stand for. Be how you want to be received.

I feel like a tiger right now. There's nothing impossible if you get up and work for it.

No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible.

My grandma and my mom are not happy about the fact that I am still a bachelor. It's not on my mind that I have to find the person I'm going to spend the rest of my life with. It will happen the way it's going to happen.

I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go.

It's not just for its influence on us, but to know that we can play a part in it, to understand the influence that we have outside our own existence.

I think Hong Kong's ballet audience is very sophisticated in the sense that they are able to find the beauty in good performances.

I don't really think about dance except just before rehearsals start. I put it off. I don't live my life thinking about dance.

As soon as you become afraid to make a fool of yourself, you're in trouble. I decided I may as well just see if I can live with myself making millions of mistakes and learn something from it.

At 11, I went to Misha's school for two summers. So when I wasn't in that school, I was taking classes at David Howard or Robert Denver's studios - kind of legendary places - and there was one summer where Alexander Godunov sort of took me under his wing; the memory's a little murky, but I felt as if I was his project for those weeks.

You live as long as you dance.

Dance is an art, so day by day, it's growing and there are new things that can be done.

I studied dance at a high school arts magnet program before moving on to Miami's New World School of the Arts, and from there, I went on to study at The Juilliard School.

I'm not interested in how people move, but what moves them.

I think there is a lot of pressure on people to be perfect all the time, and so there is this fairytale image of everything, but at the end of the day we are just like other people.

I hate wearin' sunglasses, to be honest with you. You don't need sunglasses in Ireland.

Directing is very close to choreography; you deal with space, time, emotions, lighting, making beautiful images.

I love to go to the gym for a couple of hours daily. Besides, I love my dancing routines; dance helps me unwind, de-stress, and introspect.

I try and keep my pictures as natural as possible and try not to use too many filters, because now, it is such a world of making everything look so perfect, that in fact, it is the imperfections in people that are really unique and special. So, I try and get that across to people.

A wild, untamed youth learns nobility through art.

You just have to be authentic. You can't fake a smile. You have to do what you actually enjoy.

I've had this reoccurring dream for the last ten to fifteen years.

Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.

My mom says I either have to go to college or go into the military.

The trouble with nude dancing is that not everything stops when the music stops.

Never give up. Don't let good ideas be buried with you. Breathe it. Dream it. Live it and relentlessly pursue your ideas and ideals. Without them you cannot achieve anything meaningful in life.

Arts education is a big part of building a 21st century creative mind, and I think that we have let way too many kids lose their way by not drawing in their young minds with music, dance, painting and the other various ways we can express those things we do not have words for.

The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing.

No matter size, weight, or age woman should never forget their divine worth. We are powerful, beautiful beings and should be treated as such.

The body is living art. Your movement through time and space is art. A painter has brushes. You have your body.

I think on a bucket list for a performer is definitely doing a stage show, whether it's in Vegas or on Broadway or whatever.

I guess it's hard work... whatever the decision is, how to show it to people that aren't necessarily dancers, how to get people to think about more than themselves.

I do not like eating meat because I have seen lambs and pigs killed. I saw and felt their pain. They felt the approaching death. I could not bear it. I cried like a child. I ran up a hill and could not breathe. I felt that I was choking. I felt the death of the lamb.

The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.

The well-meaning people who talk of education as if it were a substance distributable by coupon in large or small quantities never exhibit any understanding of the truth that you cannot teach anybody anything that he does not want to learn.

There's no secret to working with kids. They either charm you and you can work with them, or they don't charm you and you feel you're stuck with them.

Natural movement is the shortest way to an effective result. Like the way the water runs, it always finds the right way.

I was going to strive at something that I loved to do. And I didn't care what the outcome was; I wanted it to be something successful, I wanted to move forward.

I've never seen a Lindy Hopper who wasn't smiling. It's a happy dance. It makes you feel good.

Sometimes I feel as if sections of my ballets were done for me - that I didn't do them myself.

I want to inspire people to be better, to do better, to dance better, and I want to help to grow this next generation. That's something that's really, really important to me, and I just want to be freaking good at everything I do.

Always do what you like, do what you want, and try your best to be happy.

Above all, I wanted to be appreciated as a prima ballerina who happened to be a Native American, never as someone who was an American Indian ballerina.

The judges are fun because they bring different personalities. And it's also really exciting to work really hard all week and then have them either give really good praise or to give constructive criticism.

I think cultural appropriation has been an issue since the beginning of time and I think it's so important for us to tell our own stories and tell them the way we know how they're supposed to be told but also giving each other the exposure and access in order to do that.

Sex in a dance is in the eyes of the beholder. I never thought my dances sexy. I suppose that's because I see myself with my face washed, and to me I look like a rabbit.

No to spectacle no to virtuosity no to transformations and magic and make believe no to glamour and transcendency of the star image no to the heroic no to the anti-heroic no to trash imagery no to involvement of performer or spectator no to style no to camp no to seduction of spectator by the wiles of the performer no to eccentricity no to moving or being moved.

How precious you are in my life. I am forever grateful that God sent an angel to me. I love you most dearly.

Never be afraid to be a poppy in a field of daffodils.

I never claimed to be famous. Notorious I have always been.

The process of praying isn't about letting God know what you need, it's about letting you know more completely how much you need God and how vital having a relationship with Him is.

You don't get there because, you get there in spite of.

Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys. but to move an audience in such a role, to hear in the applause that unmistakable note which breaks through good theatre manners and comes from the heart, is to feel that you have won through to life itself. Such pleasure does not vanish with the fall of the curtain, but becomes part of one's own life.

Dance is not an exercise. Dance is an art.

If you were black, you experienced prejudice. It wasn't a real horrible thing for us; we went through it. We noticed it mostly in the South and in Las Vegas, where we couldn't stay in the hotels where we entertained. But that began to change.

Dance every performance as if it were your last.

I never played politics, I was never a party girl, and I never slept with any of the producers.

Michael Jackson changed the world and, more personally, my life forever.

The more wishes you make, the more magnificent Fantasia will become.

People tend to look at dancers like we are these little jewels, little cardboard cut outs, and yet we have blood and guts and go through Hell.