Dancer Quotes - Page 25

• So I'm studying ballet every day and really training so people will see me as a ballet dancer, which no one's seen before.

  Sutton Foster

  People, Ballet, Training

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• I don't rock for Cancer. I rock for cash, and the topless dancers.

  Kid Rock

  Peace, Cancer, Rocks

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• I trained as a ballet dancer - well, I started when I was two and a half, and was serious about it from when I was eight until I was 18.

  Jessica Brown Findlay

  Two, Eight, Ballet

  "Jessica Brown Findlay's Sybil Liberties". Interview with Esther Zuckerman, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 12, 2012.

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• You realize you can get good at something, even though ballet almost felt like you could never be good enough. No matter how hard you worked, it was so hard to be a great dancer.

  Susanna Hoffs

  Ballet, Matter, Realizing

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• I'm more of a freestyle dancer. I like to do my own thing.

  Felicity Jones

  My Own, Freestyle

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• Any Michael Jackson song will make any dancer go nuts.

  Harry Shum, Jr.

  Song, Nuts

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• I remember the first time I felt that I was sharing the stage with someone spectacular was dancing with Beyonce. It was the dancers, the band, Beyonce and me in front of thousands of people. That was sick. It was pretty amazing that I got to travel the world with someone like her.

  Harry Shum, Jr.

  People, Dancing, Sick

  "Harry Shum Jr: I love that people see dancers as artists now". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. May 11, 2010.

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• I've always wanted to be a professional dancer, I'd always wanted to be a ballerina. I trained for 13 years but it never came to be.

  Jenna Jameson

  Years, Ballerina, Wanted

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• I haven't had a family, but I don't think of that as a sacrifice: my dancers are my family.

  Judith Jamison

  Sacrifice, Thinking, My Family

  "Portrait of the artist". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. August 28, 2007.

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• Some people say I'm obnoxious and lazy, that I'm uneducated, that my opinion means nothing, but I know I'm a real good dancer.

  John Mellencamp

  Honesty, Real, Mean

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• I'm your private dancer, a dancer for money, I'll do what you want me to do.

  Tina Turner

  Dancing, Want, What You Want

  FaceBook post by Tina Turner from Aug 13, 2016

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• There was this long lovely dancer in a little club downtown, love to watch her do her stuff.

  Bob Seger

  Social Taboos, Long, Lovely

  Song: Mainstreet, Album: Night Moves, 1976

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• I've been told if you're an actress you can't sing, if you're a dancer you can't act, you can't do theatre and be respected if you've done a TV soap, you can't have a No. 1 record. All these different things they've told me I can't do, but I wanted to do them, so I've done them.

  Martine McCutcheon

  Theatre, Actresses, Tvs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.

  Natalia Makarova

  Simple, Giving, Perfection

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When you're a dancer who is injured, you are at the bottom of the food chain. We are so replaceable.

  Bebe Neuwirth

  Chains, Bottom, Food Chain

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• I was embarrassed that I even wanted to become an actress because coming from L.A., with two older sisters in the business and a mom who had been a ballet dancer, it was such a cliche.

  Elizabeth Olsen

  Mom, Two, Ballet

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In swimming at my level it's about control of the small movements. A good ballet dancer floats across the stage, the best sprinters virtually abolish gravity. All motion occurs in the right direction.

  Alexander Dale Oen

  Swimming, Ballet, Movement

  "With Alexander Dale Oen's sudden death, Norway lost a hero" by Andy Bull, www.theguardian.com. June 2, 2012.

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• People think being Elvira is a lot of fun - and it is - but I was doing a lot more bizarre stuff before then, just being a dancer and a showgirl and traveling around Italy in a band and working for Playboy Club, and later being a model and meeting a million and one people and being kind of a groupie... It's all been really interesting.

  Cassandra Peterson

  Fun, Thinking, People

  "Elvira, Mistress Of The Dark (and merchandising)". Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. October 28, 2009.

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• As a dancer, one of my many teachers along the way made the comment that who I was onstage and who I was off were two totally different people.

  Phyllis Smith

  Teacher, Two, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In my heart, my first desire was to be a dancer. I always wanted to dance and I danced from the time I was 7 till I was well into my 30s.

  Phyllis Smith

  Heart, Desire, Firsts

  "Questions for Phyllis Smith". Interview with Jessica Grose, www.slate.com. June 23, 2011.

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• Well, I took ballet for many, many years, so my whole childhood really revolved around dance class. I grew up around dance; my mother was a dancer.

  Amy Sherman-Palladino

  Mother, Class, Years

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• I grew up very much an athlete and very much a swimmer and a dancer and a horse rider and surf lifesaving club, you name it I've probably done it. I just find so much gratification in being physical.

  Sharni Vinson

  Horse, Athlete, Names

  "Sharni Vinson Talks You’re Next, Playing the Survivalist Girl, Embracing the Film’s Stunts, and More". Interview with Matt Goldberg, collider.com. March 21, 2013.

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• By patting somebody on the back, a boy or a girl, a professional dancer, male, female, it really makes people feel good and I know it certainly made me feel good.

  Jack Wagner

  Girl, Boys, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I used to get made fun of a lot for being a male dancer, especially growing up in Boston. Kids are terrible, they don't realize how heavy words can be.

  Kenny Wormald

  Growing Up, Fun, Kids

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• I was a dancer, and it's not really cool for a boy to dance, so it was inspiring to see a movie like 'Footloose' where a guy is dancing masculine and had a proper reason behind it. It made me feel cool, and when these kids would make fun of me, I'd be like, 'Oh, didn't you see 'Footloose,' man?

  Kenny Wormald

  Fun, Kids, Men

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