Top 1200 Tap Dancers Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I really have a new-found respect for dancers.

Dancers are the messengers of the gods.

I think my mom put me in tap classes when I was three, which I never pursued. I don't know how to tap. Then we moved to Portugal when I was five, and, I think, she put me in ballet classes immediately. Then I was expelled for being too restless - I am too high energy - and was told I could go do rhythm gymnastics.

I'm really grateful for my dancers' discipline.

Dancers are the athletes of God.

So many people report to be contemporary dancers, and they're not. They are sort of jazz dancers that feel like they're throwing a bit of classical in there. I mean, a true contemporary dancer has got ballet as their base and classical ballet, and that is their base. And then they choose to extemporize on that and go into a contemporary world.

Most dancers are very quiet.

For a long while, I found Parker impossible. He went away for 23 years. I tried to bring him back a few times, and I sort of figured out where he came from, why he went away, and why he came back. The thing that I have to tap into for Parker is in some way the outsider. If I can tap into the outsider, I can write about Parker, and if I can't, I can't.

I look at the dancers and I get the inspiration for the work from them.

I disagree with the idea that modern dancers are cold or unemotional.

I very much like dance and dancers.

When I write a song, I tap into the emotion and the feeling and then I use the emotion to write the words. It's the opposite when I act. I use the words and tap into the emotion.

Real dancers are the ones who can hear the music in their soul.

Dancers are allowed, indeed encouraged, to remain children forever.

I smoke crack. I get all my dancers together and we do a prayer.

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Actors are born, good actors are trained. Dancers are born, good dancers are trained.

The actual cheerleaders in our film are all Broadway dancers.

Backup dancers are completely respectable. They're the studio musicians of dance.

When you talk about "white privilege", you're talking about something systemic. When you're talking about "black privilege" it's something spiritual because we as black people tap into a divine system that a lot of other cultures and races can't tap into and that system allows us to prosper in spite of everything that's been thrown our way from slavery to segregation to mass incarceration. We have a privilege pre-ordained by God that nothing and no one can stop.

Dancers aren't made of their technique, but their passion.

Dancers come and go in the twinkling of an eye, but the dance lives on.

Being sexy is just one component. It's not a thing I am. It's a thing I can be. It's a side of myself I can tap into, just like I can tap into my funny side, my quirky side or my dramatic side. It's not what I am.

My favorite thing is drums. I have a very, very big memory - and I don't have many big memories - of going to see the movie Tap, with Gregory Hines. During one scene, he's in jail, and there's some water dripping down, and he starts tap dancing. I just like that feeling of: "I'm in charge, I can do whatever I want."

Tap dancing is like... it's equivalent to music, not only for the African American community, but also for the world. Tap dancing is like language; it's like air: it's like everything else that we need in order to survive. I'm blessed and honored to be knowledgeable of the art form and to be a part of the art form.

I think 'Tap Dogs' has lasted so long because people have a natural interest in tap dancing. This form of dancing can't be dated, it's such an intriguing form of dance because the feet are also an an instrument.

At bed-time I went into my room and put out the light. I didn't get undressed. I lay on my bed and looked out of the window at the stars. I read in a book that the stars can take you anywhere. I've never wanted to be an astronaut because of the helmets. If I were up there on the moon, or by the Milky Way, I'd want to feel the stars round my head. I'd want them in my hair the way they are in paintings of the gods. I'd want my whole body to feel the space, the empty space and points of light. That's how dancers must feel, dancers and acrobats, just for a second, that freedom.

I believe this: If an actor wants a role or wants to work with somebody, then you do everything within reason to try to get that role. If they want you to audition, you audition. If they want you to screen-test, you screen-test. If they want you to come and tap-dance in their hallway, you tap-dance in their hallway.

I dance with the dancers.

Obviously, the young dancers lack a certain air of maturity.

My dancers are the real stars.

Dancers aren't pompous; they're too tired.

At our most primitive we are storytellers and dancers.

This is the strange thing: Dancers don't age.

I don't go to these places where there are belly dancers and this and that.

The people that have inspired me the most were dancers and choreographers.

I like dancers. I have a thing for girls who dance.

Professional dancers are known for their barely-there costumes.

When I'm getting ready for a tour, I'll work out with the dancers.

I have two sisters and neither one of them are dancers.

Shashi Kapoor and Amitabh Bachchan were good dancers.

Ballet dancers really know how to enter a room.

There's a line of dancers waiting to get into Sydney Dance Company.

There are a lot of things that dancers can do that actors cannot and actors can do that dancers cannot.

Here in New Orleans, what a lot of the musical families do - and this is a romantic concept on my part - is they teach their kids to tap dance first. Then after tap dance, you learn piano, and after piano, you get to pick between all the instruments that are out there.

And yet the real success goes to those who obsess. The focus that leads you through the Dip to the other side is rewarded by a marketplace in search of the best in the world. A woodpecker can tap twenty times on a thousand trees and get nowhere, but stay busy. Or he can tap twenty-thousand times on one tree and get dinner.

Dancers are both athletes and artists.

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Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays.

Usually I perform with dancers.

Dancers dance through their pain I shrink from mine.

I always want to have more dancers in my company.

Always the question for dancers is: Can we fly?

A Nation's character is typified by its dancers.

Dancers don’t think about things; they just do them.

So many dancers feel that what they look like is more important than who they are. This is a real danger for dancers who focus for years on appearances and think of themselves as merely a body. The choreographer can't work with them in the realm of ideas. It's a huge problem if they haven't been connecting internally. If they've decided that what's inside is of little value, they can only try to approximate some kind of look.

I could have kisses like that for the rest of my life. Kisses that don't know who I am. Kisses that make me feel more and less than what I am. But my finger tap tap taps on my leg and reminds me that I am not who Adam thinks I am, and it makes me want to cry. It's not that I don't deserve his kiss. It's that the person I am can never really share a life, a soul, with the person he is.

In Chicago, I walked in knowing what the dancers were going to need.

Dancers are made, not born.

Ballet dancers are among the greatest living athletes.