Dancer Quotes - Page 5

• The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing.

  Doris Humphrey

  Dance, Art, Believe

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• There is no such thing as a natural boxer. A natural dancer has to practice hard. A natural painter has to paint all the time. Even a natural fool has to work at it.

  Joe Louis

  Practice, Boxers, Fool

  Joe Louis, Edna Rust, Art Rust (1978). “Joe Louis: My Life”, Harcourt

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

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Lucky, Has Beens

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• If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts.

  Ritchie Blackmore

  Fall, Knowing, Ballet

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• Fred Astaire was a more formal, trained dancer who loved waltzing and only danced with the girls.

  Leslie Caron

  Girl, Formal

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  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

  Dance, Real, School

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• A creative person has to create. It doesn't really matter what you create. If such a dancer wanted to go out and build the cactus gardens where he could, in Mexico, let him do that, but something that is creative has to go on.

  Katherine Dunham

  Art, Garden, Creative

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

  Robert Duvall

  Movie, Actors, Crash

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• I was a ballet dancer and that kind of bled into musical theater. I was constantly in rehearsal for one thing or another.

  Jennifer Garner

  Ballet, Musical, Rehearsal

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• I have never sung a whole song on my own before and I am not the best dancer in the world, but I would rather try and fall than not not try at all.

  Geri Halliwell

  Song, Fall, Trying

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• I've got no plans to be a ballet dancer at the moment.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Ballet, Moments, Plans

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• My wife is the dancer, but I certainly know how to sing.

  David Hasselhoff

  Wife, Know How, Knows

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

  Hugh Jackman

  Country, Growing Up, World

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• 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

  Jobs, Slavery, Singers

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• 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

  Singers, Actresses, Wanted

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

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• 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

  Relationship, Effort, Fans

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• 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

  Strong Women, Males, Pay

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• 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, Commitment, College

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• Kind are her answers, But her performance keeps no day; Breaks time, as dancers. From their own Music when they stray.

  Thomas Campion

  Dance, Answers, Kind

  'The Third Book of Airs' (1617) no. 7

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• I will make an average man into an average dancer, provided he be passably well made. I will teach him how to move his arms and legs, to turn his head. I will give him steadiness, brilliancy and speed; but I cannot endow him with that fire and intelligence, those graces and that expression of feeling which is the soul of true pantomime.

  Jean-Georges Noverre

  Dance, Moving, Men

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• One is born to be a dancer. No teacher can work miracles, nor will years of training make a good dancer of an untalented pupil. One may be able to acquire a certain technical facility, but no one can ever 'acquire an exceptional talent.' I have never prided myself on having an unusually gifted pupil. A Pavlova is no one's pupil but God's.

  George Balanchine

  Dance, Teacher, Years

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• A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.

  Agnes de Mille

  Dance, Ballet, Calves

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• All night have the roses heard
  The flute, violin, bassoon;
  All night has the casement jessamine stirr'd
  To the dancers dancing in tune;
  Till a silence fell with the waking bird,
  And a hush with the setting moon.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Dance, Moon, Night

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.890, Delphi Classics

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• I think it's useful to experience other types of dance and other cultures, and the life of a classical dancer these days is certainly not all tutus! So experience of other dance forms is a good idea.

  Deborah Bull

  Dance, Thinking, Other Cultures

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• Young dancers are training at a very vulnerable time in their lives... So train the whole person, not just the dancer.

  Deborah Bull

  Inspirational, Dance, Dancing

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