Dancer Quotes - Page 33

• 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

  Plies, I Am The Best

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• No, I chose the name Jane Seymour because I was doing my first film, 'Ode to Lovely War,' and one of the top agents in England spotted me dancing in the chorus. I was a singer and dancer in that movie with Maggie Smith, um, and he told me he couldn't sell me as Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg.

  Jane Seymour

  War, Names, Dancing

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• Davy Jones was the grooviest of the Monkees, which makes him one of the grooviest pop stars who ever existed. He was the best dancer in the Monkees, the Cute One, the one with the coy English accent, the bowl-cut boy-child who shook those cherry-red maracas and always got the girl. He was also the guy who stole David Bowie's original name.

  Rob Sheffield

  Cute, Girl, Stars

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• You hang around actors, or dancers, the minute you sneeze, everybody has a remedy, and we're all on a million different kinds of diets, and different kinds of things that we do for exercise.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Exercise, Sneezing, Different

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. January 13, 2012.

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• You can't be pregnant in leotards, and this is the last chance for us to get our bodies into the shape of concert dancers and capture it with the magic of film.

  Patrick Swayze

  Pregnancy, Magic, Body

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• Princess Diana was a nice dancer because she had confidence. In fact, when we danced together she started to lead, and I looked her in eye and went, 'No, you have to let me lead.' So I grabbed her around the waist and we were off to the races.

  John Travolta

  Nice, Princess, Eye

  Parade Interview, parade.com. December 4, 2007.

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• 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

  Jobs, Long, Actors

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• Figure skating has been a great influence for me. I took dance at the School of American Ballet, which helped my own skating. And whether you are a skater or a dancer, without sounding narcissistic, it is all about looking in the mirror.

  Vera Wang

  School, Mirrors, Ballet

  Interview with Evan Lysacek, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 19, 2010.

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• Dancers are kept in a perpetual state of pre-puberty, and for young girls in particular, that type of pressure breeds insecurities.

  Mia Wasikowska

  Girl, Insecurity, Pressure

  "Mia Wasikowska Talks Weight Obsession, Natalie Portman’s Ballet Dancing", www.huffingtonpost.com. March 24, 2011.

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• In a big Bollywood romantic film, taking my shirt off and spreading the hand towards the mountain with dancers behind me are not my cup of tea.

  Vir Das

  Hands, Tea, Mountain

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• He moved like a dancer, which is not surprising; a horse is a beautiful animal, but it is perhaps most remarkable because it moves as if it always hears music.

  Mark Helprin

  Beautiful, Horse, Truth

  Mark Helprin (1983). “Winter's Tale”, p.18, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Someone once said that dancers work just as hard as policeman, always alert, always tense. But I don't agree with that because policeman don't have to look beautiful at the same time.

  George Balanchine

  Beautiful, Dance, Looks

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

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• You...are...a...fridge...with wings,' Fang ground out, punching an Eraser hard with every word. 'We're...freaking...ballet...dancers.

  James Patterson

  Wings, Ballet, Punching

  James Patterson (2007). “The Angel Experiment”, Little, Brown and Company

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• From this experience, I understood the danger of focusing only on what isn't there. What if I came to the end of my life and realized that I'd spent every day watching for a man who would never come to me? What an unbearable sorrow it would be, to realize I'd never really tasted the things I'd eaten, or seen the places I'd been, because I'd thought of nothing but the Chairman even while my life was drifting away from me. And yet if I drew my thoughts back from him, what life would I have? I would be like a dancer who had practiced since childhood for a performance she would never give.

  Arthur Golden

  Men, Giving, Childhood

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• Felicity and I watch the dancers moving as one. They spin about like the earth on it's axis, enduring the dark, waiting for the sun.

  Libba Bray

  Moving, Dark, Axes

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.524, Simon and Schuster

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• He stared up at the stars, and it seemed to him then that they were dancers, stately and graceful, performing a dance almost infinite in its complexity. He imagined he could see the very faces of the stars; pale, they were, and smiling gently, as if they had spent so much time above the world, watching the scrambling and the joy and the pain of the people below them, that they could not help being amused every time another little human believed itself the center of its world, as each of us does.

  Neil Gaiman

  Stars, Pain, People

  Neil Gaiman (2007). “Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess's Stardust: Being a Romance Within the Realms of Faerie”, Vertigo

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• Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than human beings really move. Films and books and plays show us people talking much more entertainingly than people really talk, make paltry human enterprises seem important. Singers and musicians show us human beings making sounds far more lovely than human beings really make. Architects give us temples in which something marvelous is obviously going on. Actually, practically nothing is going on.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Moving, Book, Artist

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• I closed my eyes to watch tiny dancers like jeweled birds cross the dark screen of my eyelids.

  Janet Fitch

  Eye, Dark, Bird

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• He was one of those earnest, persevering dancers--the kind that have taken twelve correspondence lessons.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Taken, Twelve, Lessons

  P. G. Wodehouse (2011). “The Man with Two Left Feet: And Other Stories”, p.170, The Floating Press

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• The dancers finished thier set, and one immediately strolled over to our table and straddled Ranger. Want a private party?" she asked. Not tonight," Ranger said. He handed her a twenty, and she left. What about the cat-feeding theory?" I asked him. Out the window.

  Janet Evanovich

  Party, Cat, Tonight

  Janet Evanovich (2009). “Lean Mean Thirteen”, p.207, Macmillan

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• It was like time would stop, and the dancer would sort of step through some kind of portal and he wasn't doing anything different than he had ever done, 1,000 nights before, but everything would align. And all of a sudden, he would no longer appear to be merely human. He would be lit from within, and lit from below and all lit up on fire with divinity. And when this happened, back then, people knew it for what it was, you know, they called it by it's name. They would put their hands together and they would start to chant, "Allah, Allah, Allah, God God, God." That's God, you know.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Night, Fire, Hands

  "Do All Of Us Possess Genius?". Ted Radio Hour with Alison Stewart, www.npr.org. May 25, 2012.

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• A dancer on break approached him. She smiled. Each tooth was angled in a different direction, as if her mouth were the masterwork of a mad orthodontist. "Hi," she said. "Hi." "You're really cute." "I don't have any money." She spun and walked away. Ah, romance.

  Harlan Coben

  Cute, Mad, Romance

  Harlan Coben (2013). “The Myron Bolitar Series 7-Book Bundle: Deal Breaker, Drop Shot, Fade Away, Back Spin, One False Move, The Final Detail, Darkest Fear”, p.237, Dell

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• The choreographer and the dancer must remember
that they reach the audience through the eye.
It's the illusion created which convinces the audience,
much as it is with the work of a magician.

  George Balanchine

  Dance, Eye, Remember

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

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• I never wanted to be a painter; I wanted to be a tap dancer.

  Andy Warhol

  Tap Dancers, Painter, Wanted

  Sandra Brant, Andy Warhol, Elissa Cullman (1977). “Andy Warhol's "Folk and Funk": September 20, 1977-November 19, 1977”

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• Coming near him like a ballet dancer she took a leap towards him, and he, frightened by her vehemence, and fearing that she would crash against him, instinctively became absolutely rigid, and she felt herself embracing a statue.

  Anais Nin

  Ballet, Vehemence, Crash

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