Dancer Quotes

I would imagine that if you could understand Morse code, a tap dancer would drive you crazy.
Mitch Hedberg

Crazy, Understand, Imagine

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'
Friedrich Nietzsche

Good, Art, Wish

I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as a songwriter, or only as a tap dancer. I like to move around.
Jimi Hendrix

Hate, Guitar, Put

The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul.
Isadora Duncan

Soul, Body, Simply

It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style.
Quentin Crisp

Good, Saying, While

How can we know the dancer from the dance?
William Butler Yeats

A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator.
Paul Valery

Hybrid, Calculator

No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.
Mikhail Baryshnikov

Business, Another, Watch

What I mean is that none of my talents had a - what's that great word - rubric. A singer, an actor, a dancer - there was nothing I could really say I was. The writing came much later. And, actually, thank God, because if I had said I'm a singer, I would really have just had one thing to do.
Steve Martin

Great, God, Nothing

I think if you are going to be a singer, you should sing. If you are going to be a dancer, you should dance. If you are going to do a combination of the two, you should make it very clear when you are singing and very clear when you are dancing.
Kesha

Two, Dance, Singing

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.
Rita Rudner

Start, Second, Position

For what the horse does under compulsion, as Simon also observes, is done without understanding; and there is no beauty in it either, any more than if one should whip and spur a dancer.
Xenophon

Beauty, Done, Horse

But in another world, another life, probably growing up in another country, I might have been more of a dancer.
Hugh Jackman

Life, Country, Another

I am not the first straight dancer or the last.
Mikhail Baryshnikov

I'm always very nervous about the word 'dancer' next to my name because anyone who's really trained in dance will go, 'This guy's fudging so badly.'
Hugh Jackman

Dance, Word, Anyone

I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.
Francesca Annis

Acting, Drifted

You just can't take a crash course to be a tango dancer in a movie.
Robert Duvall

Movie, Crash, Tango

The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Same, Effort, Making

I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being.
Martha Graham

Nature, Human, Flower

I have been very lucky to work in so many new ballets, but that is what a dancer's work is.
Mikhail Baryshnikov

Work, Lucky, Ballets

Nobody is born a dancer.
Mikhail Baryshnikov

Since the days of slavery, if you were a good singer or dancer, it was your job to perform for the master after dinner.
Spike Lee

Good, Job, After

I prefer musicals, because I am the best dancer who ever lived. The best plies, the best sashays, and by far the best-smelling Capezios.
Adam Sandler

Best, Far, Lived

I was always a singer and a dancer, and I always wanted to be an actress. For me, it's all just one thing.
Jennifer Lopez

Wanted, Singer, Actress

Well, I was sort of a jack-of-all-trades in show business for a long time. I was a singer and a dancer and then I got a job as an actor.
Christopher Walken

Time, Business, Job

The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for this school of affected grace and toe walking.
Isadora Duncan

School, Long, Real

In those days, male dancers were a rarer breed than women. as they are still today, A good male dancer, one as strong as we were, was very difficult to come by if you couldn't afford to pay them.
Twyla Tharp

Good, Women, Today

It was not until I had graduated from college that I made a professional commitment to it. Frankly, I didn't think it wise. I was my own interior parental force, and it's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer.
Twyla Tharp

Wise, Difficult, College

Since I became a dancer, I have felt much better about myself.
Margaret Cho

My mother was a dancer, so I like to use the body as part of the instrument of acting.
Nicolas Cage

Mother, Acting, Body

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