I just knew that was what I wanted to do. I was going to perform as a singer; I was going to perform as a dancer, and I was, you know, going to do movies and be an actress. I was going to do it or die trying. That's what my life was
My mom was a dancer, my dad's a singer and I've always had that kind of music in my life.
I always considered myself a dancer before anything else.
I copied my brother. He was a natural dancer. Graceful. People always asked did we study ballet. We never did.
A lot of my joy this year has been to give away awards to young people, no matter of race, creed or color, because they were a terrific violinist or a terrific dancer.
But you do have to start young as a dancer if you're going to achieve the physical skills necessary.
I can relax in L.A. I think I'm the only person in that town who doesn't want to act. I was an OK singer. I was an OK dancer. But acting? Never could do it.
The life of a dancer is tragically short. What is remarkable about the New York City Ballet is that it makes us forget that. Because it keeps the ballet alive.
Due to a big bust in Cuba, my father's business suffered badly, so I was free to choose my own career. I became a professional dancer, and I went on the road and started making real money.
To illustrate what I mean, an apt dancer may be in thorough unison with the others in that particular group, and at the same time reveal a difference in dancing temperament, rhythm or technique; she may phrase, accentuate or actually interpret differently.
I became an ardent, but never a specially good, dancer.
I had a wonderful childhood, coming from Cincinnati, and I think that it was great going into the life that I was going to have, where you have to start young as a dancer.
I also loved musicals because I was a dancer.
I'm not a singer, and I'm not a brilliant dancer.
There were many good actresses in my time like Jane Powell and Debbie Reynolds, but I was the only dancer.
My favorite dancer is Sylvie Guillem.
By philosophy the mind of man comes to itself, and from henceforth rests on itself without foreign aid, and is completely master of itself, as the dancer of his feet, or the boxer of his hands.
Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
A dancer, if she is great, can give to the people something that they can carry with them forever. They can never forget it, and it has changed them, though they may never know it.
Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
Life is the dancer and you are the dance.
Dance is your pulse, your heartbeat, your breathing. It's the rhythm of your life. It's the expression in time and movement,in happiness, joy, sadness and envy.
Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
Dancing is like bank robbery, it takes split-second timing.
Dance every performance as if it were your last.
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