Dancer Quotes - Page 10

• [Film Loulou] is about Loulou, a ghost from the 1920s. She was a flapper and she was a dancer, had kind of a free lifestyle, then she ended up marrying a man who wanted to kind of keep her in the house and control her environment a little bit more and so she committed suicide.

  Boti Bliss

  Suicide, Men, House

  Source: actionflickchick.com

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• If you're a dancer, study singing. You have to do everything and do it well. You have to study acting. You have to study all of it. You have to find workshops, get out on the stage...and fail.

  Debbie Reynolds

  Singing, Acting, Study

  Source: grigwaretalkstheatre.blogspot.com

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• I try to think of myself as a struggling competitor or specialist at my craft, much like a singer, dancer, comedian, or actor. So I'm struggling to do my craft and I'm continually trying to learn to do it better. I think that's what's really been my secret.

  Kai Greene

  Struggle, Thinking, Comedian

  Source: www.awesome-body.club

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• I was born with rhythm but I don't know if - I'm not a break dancer.

  Michael B. Jordan

  Break, Born, Rhythm

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• I understand wanting to do your craft. I understand wanting to have a passion for your art and for your ability to be an actor, to be a singer, to be a dancer - that I understand. Wanting to be famous - I don't get that. But that's where we're living right now.

  Lorna Luft

  Art, Passion, Living Right

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• Wrestling used to be interesting. There was a bit of sham involved, of course, but there was some real wrestling involved. They're just characters now. It's unrecognizable. There's no fighting in American bloody wrestling. They just yell at each other and jump around like overweight ballet dancers.

  Shane MacGowan

  Real, Character, Wrestling

  Source: shanemacgowan.com

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• My ideas come, and there is a deep desire to create. Sometimes it's stronger than me. Sometimes I have to do projects that I know are almost impossible but I still have to do them. It's like a muscle - if you are a dancer, you need to dance, if you are a creative person, you need to create. It's part of your life.

  Blanca Li

  Ideas, Creative, Desire

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My parents were into 40s big band stuff, and my father was a great dancer to that kind of thing. But rock 'n' roll? No. I wanted a guitar, but my mother didn't really want me to have one. At some point I played a violin, but I didn't last long at that.

  Mark Alan Stamaty

  Mother, Father, Rocks

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Dance is so prominent, now more than it's been before, but I still feel like there's this void that needs to be filled that tells the story of a contemporary dancer who is in a company - I don't know, just that's my dream to do that.

  Haley Lu Richardson

  Dream, Void, Needs

  Source: wwd.com

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• I've done everything. I've sung, done records, plays... It just so happened my first professional job was as a dancer. I've done the whole shebang, darling. But dancing was my first professional engagement in 1974. I got paid for it, so that was it, my vocation. But my parents weren't keen. They wanted me to be an accountant in Italy. Or a lawyer. They were furious. I had to run away. I had to leave the country.

  Bruno Tonioli

  Running, Country, Jobs

  "Interrogation: Strictly's Len and Bruno". Interview with Mirror, www.mirror.co.uk. April 6, 2008.

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• When the Negro musician or dancer swings the blues, he is fulfilling the same fundamental existential requirement that determines the mission of the poet, the priest and the medicine man.

  Albert Murray

  Men, Medicine, Swings

  Albert Murray (1970). “The Omni-Americans: Some Alternatives to the Folklore of White Supremacy”

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• Being a fan of dance and a dancer, I love my classic dance movies.

  Stephen Boss

  Fans, Classic

  Source: collider.com

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• That kind of friendship doesn't just materialize at the end of the rainbow one morning in a soft-focus Hollywood haze. For it to last this long, and at such close quarters, some serious work had gone into it. Ask any ice-skater or ballet dancer or show jumper, anyone who lives by beautiful moving things: nothing takes as much work as effortlessness.

  Tana French

  Beautiful, Morning, Moving

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• As dancers, especially for myself, personally, dance constitutes a lot of the conversation that I have. While I'm not a ridiculous wordsmith and I can't clearly verbalize the things that I'm feeling sometimes, I'd say that I can emote how I feel by dancing, 100% of the time, and fearlessly at that.

  Stephen Boss

  Dancing, Feelings, Ridiculous

  Source: collider.com

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• I went to a public high school and most of the comedy was coming from the black kids and the Asian kids and the Hispanic kids. And, the coolest kids to me where always the black kids. They were always fashion forward and they always dressed the coolest. They were always the best dancers, and just the coolest people.

  Brett Ratner

  Fashion, School, Kids

  "Brett Ratner Interview - RUSH HOUR 3". Roundtable Interview, collider.com. August 07, 2007.

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• Dean Magraw so liquid, lyrical and effortless it's like listening to a dancer.

  Steve Tibbetts

  Listening, Liquid, Lyrical

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• Lemurs are extraordinarily leapers. I mean they are just really going from tree to tree and then if there is not a tree, they just come down to the ground very gracefully. But it is the music that makes them seem to be dancing. They are basically getting from one place to another and that's just natural for them. They are just natural acrobatic dancers, just the way they move. It's beautiful!

  Patricia Wright

  Beautiful, Moving, Mean

  "Interview: “Island Of Lemurs” Filmmakers". Interview with Nell Minow, moviemom.maxlazebnik.com. April 5, 2014.

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• To handle paint the way Pollock did, you need the muscularity of a ballet dancer.

  Pat Steir

  Ballet, Needs, Way

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• A good athlete can enter a state of body-awareness in which the right stroke or the right movement happens by itself, effortlessly, without any interference of the conscious will. This is a paradigm for non-action: the purest and most effective form of action. The game plays the game; the poem writes the poem; we can't tell the dancer from the dance. It happens when we trust the intelligence of the universe in the same way that an athlete or a dancer trusts the superior intelligence of the body.

  Laozi

  Writing, Athlete, Games

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• Step Up doesn't have to hide anything. These are actually moves that people do. It just so happens that dancers are superheroes. People think there is a lot of wire work or camera tricks, but that's just not the case.

  Stephen Boss

  Moving, Thinking, People

  Source: collider.com

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• I always call Billy Elliot a fantasy autobiography because I never wanted to be a dancer, but I got a lot of stick from the other kids about wanting to be a writer and being interested in drama.

  Lee Hall

  Drama, Kids, Sticks

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• I began dancing when I was 7 years old. I was told that I had the perfect ballet dancers body and had these crazy high arches in my feet that resulted in an amazing point. Ballet was very disciplined and, frankly, a little boring, so I eventually transitioned to gymnastics. I loved that, although I never reached a competitive level.

  Catherine Mary Stewart

  Crazy, Gymnastics, Years

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• I grew up with classical music when I was a ballet dancer. Now when I have to prepare an emotional scene, to cry or whatever, I listen to sonatas. Vivaldi and stuff. It's just beautiful to me.

  Diane Kruger

  Beautiful, Emotional, Ballet Class

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• Hoop Dancer is a rendering of my understanding of the process by which one enters into timelessness -- that place where one is whole.

  Paula Gunn Allen

  Understanding, Process, Rendering

  Paula Gunn Allen (1986). “The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions”, Boston : Beacon Press

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• I realized that performing was what I wanted to do when I did my first professional gig as a dancer with my company Synergy in Canada. I was overwhelmed with how it felt to perform in front of an audience.

  Catherine Mary Stewart

  Gigs, Canada, Firsts

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