Top 802 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Dancers - Page 9

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

I love nature like nothing else. Before I moved to Switzerland, my home was a flat in London with a garden. In those snatched moments away from dance, I did typical weekend things like pruning, planting, and weeding. I planted fruit trees and even had a vegetable garden, but I wasn't around enough, so it was a disaster.

Time is running out to permeate the piece.

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

My body can't demonstrate. It isn't willing to explore movements the way it used to. I've always had to find the movement in myself then show it in myself. If I've got the sense of movement for the character, I expect the dancer to get it too.

My hairdresser Alan, who I've known since I began competing, lives with us, along with his husband Nathan, so I have my own gay gaggle.

This new form of dialogue that is bringing us to the art to which I have dedicated my life, is rooted in the deepest and most beautiful part of being human.

Thank God for YouTube. Every Thanksgiving, I'm bombarded with 'Turkey Lurkey Time.'

I think often that God is guiding me.

I always did each show for about two years. So if you play the music, it just comes back to me.

Ideally if I settled down with a wife I would love to form my own troupe of mini dancers!

I'm a technophobe. I can't crack the iPhone, and the extent of my multitasking is being able to talk while I make a drink.

'A Flying Jatt' is a good superhero with no dark side. So, it is all good vs. all bad without any shades of grey.

A couple of years ago I decided that my dream is to dance with J.Lo. She was on top of my dreamboard and I've talked about her in almost every interview I've done, whenever they ask what my biggest dreams are.

Middle and high school is a time of people telling you who you are before you know who you are. I was in advanced classes at Frick and Schenley, and people would say I was trying to be white because of the way I spoke. Or they'd say I was gay.

Dance form is logical, but it is all in the realm of feeling, sensitivity and imagination.

I dance. I don't really do anything else.

What's a dancer's worst enemy? Sometimes it's age, but sometimes it's the dancer themselves.

Conrad Ludlow was an extraordinary partner... We just called him the greatest partner because he just knew what a woman's balance was.

I didn't have good grades until I started dancing, because I didn't try - I didn't see the point. Once I realized why I wanted to go to college, I started to study and do well. I knew I had to have a certain GPA to get in.

I believe that dance is the oldest, noblest and most cogent of the arts. I believe that dance is the most perfect symbol of the activity of God and His angels. I believe that dance has the power to heal, mentally and physically. I believe that true education in the art of dance is education of the whole man.

Everything is not beautiful at the ballet. It's tough.

If you have enough ambition, you can create talent!

All my life, I have maintained that the people of the world can learn to live together in peace if they are not brought up in prejudice.

I have done a lot of crazy things in my life, and I do not regret anything.

What's important is that I'm working with very talented young people.

Lindy Hoppers never die - they just swing out.

When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.

Certainly we must be strong, but strength is, to me, not just a force, but rather a vocabulary of many means

Before a long-haul flight, buy yourself a cheap, big, comfortable pillow. It makes a huge difference.

Seize the opportunities life has to offer you. Embrace the changes, and have the courage to travel on roads less travelled, even though what is in front of you could be tough, make it successful. Have determination and courage to kick down the brick walls in front of you, and to go on and achieve bigger success than you ever thought possible.

Authenticity is the most important thing. You have to know where it all comes from, study who pioneered it.

I did grow up in France, and even though I didn't go to the school or dance with the Paris Opera Ballet, I absorbed similar ideas in my training. I understand the scale of a big company. I danced for one for almost 20 years.

I definitely have been nervous, but often I get more nervous performing with the corps de ballet than doing a solo. There's so much pressure doing a group number because if you muck it up, you've ruined it for everyone.

There is really no other job in the world like 'Dancing With the Stars.'

Misty Copeland is making history. During American Ballet Theatre's current season at the Metropolitan Opera House, Copeland will alight on that storied Lincoln Center stage, making her New York debut as the Swan Queen in the iconic masterpiece Swan Lake - a crowning achievement for any dancer, regardless of the color of her skin.

I never taught people where to step on '2', because when I learned how to dance there was no '2'. We just danced to the music.

I love wine tasting in Napa. I don't have a huge collection, but the bottles I do have are special.

As far as dancing was concerned, I always wanted to do it. To actually be performing was thrilling for me.

Independent dance - and, fine, it's a very good thing that it remains independent - is a much tougher life: all dancers expect that, and accept that there will be periods of not being able to work, provided there are choice moments during the year when they really can work.

Classical ballet will never die.

I eat healthy most of the time. Whole foods are the best for you when you are super active, so I get plenty of fruits and veggies to keep me energized.

The way Alvin Ailey has transformed modern dance and dance in general is the fact of variety. It's a cornucopia of ways to move. There are choreographers in the company as - as diverse, as different from each other as Donald McKayle and Bill T. Jones, or Jawole Zollar and John Butler, Lar Lubovitch, you know, and Judith Jamison.

Maybe we just need to strip away actual learning how to dance and do more gimmicks. Maybe that's what the judges will appreciate more.

My favorite leisurewear brands are Lululemon and Nike. They feel like a second skin, they never restrict my movements, and they keep me cool and warm.

I happen to be a very passionate person, so when I first feel emotional pain, I take it very hard. I'll more than likely have a mild breakdown for a few moments, but I allow myself to feel these emotions, release them, and learn to use that hurt as my strength for change. I believe that you can take all experiences and use them as knowledge and fuel to be a better person.

I sew my own shoes. Other male dancers don't, but I like it one way, and I've learned to do it that way.

To look back all the time is boring. Excitement lies in tomorrow.

Confidence comes from other places, not just how you look.

Sometimes I feel as if sections of my ballets were done for me - that I didnt do them myself.

Just don't let anything get in the way of what you want to achieve. A lot of people get knocked back by friends, or family, or peer pressure. If you have a talent and want to do something with it, it's down to you. If it's what you really want then go after it and be very selfish... You have to remain committed, you have to stay focused and you have to be selfish.

Talent will only take you so far, and it is your ability to feel the music and explore a movement that will bring you the greatest pleasure in dance.

Youngsters are selecting dance as a profession and are aiming for an aspiring career in the field of dance. I am happy to see that we brought about that change and encouraged young people to opt for dance as their path.

I have a lot of energy, a lot of interest, a lot of desire.

I listen to music all the time, and I just choose things I like, or things that I've not used before. Sometimes I work with music that's very difficult - that I don't even particularly like, per se, but that is really complex or interesting.

I was born in France. I grew up in Africa.

You have to be the one promoting yourself. If you don't think that you're worthy, you're never going to make it.

Dance is so joyous.

Your character is your fate.

There isn't a color that I dislike. I think that every color has its own charm.