Dancer Quotes - Page 14

• I was a dancer before I was an actress, so I've always been someone who likes to communicate from my body and movement.

  Caity Lotz

  Movement, Body, Likes

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm not naturally a gifted dancer, and I don't enjoy it. I didn't go to any of those classes in drama school 'cause I was like, "I'm not going to dance. I don't need to learn to dance." I regret that.

  Richard Madden

  Regret, Drama, School

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• I think there's something about dancers, they never ever forget where they come from. They never get grand, no matter what success they have.

  Ruthie Henshall

  Thinking, Matter, Forget

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• If you just work on your upper body, you're not going to be a full-range dancer or performer. You've got to work in all directions as much as you possibly can.

  Karen Allen

  Body, Range, Performers

  "Karen Allen on The Sandlot, liking the fourth Indiana Jones, and being typecast". Interview with Pete Croatto, www.avclub.com. February 13, 2016.

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• I feel like I put it together better than anybody else. I don't feel like I'm the best dancer. I don't feel like I'm the best singer. I don't feel like I'm the best looking. I feel like I'm the best at putting it all together.

  Ginuwine

  Together, Singers, Feels

  Source: www.parlemag.com

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• Shake It Up is a buddy comedy based around dance. It's about two best friends Rocky and CeCe who live out their dream as background dancers on a show called Shake It Up Chicago. They have to navigate life as young teens going to school and dancing on the show.

  Zendaya

  Dream, School, Two Best Friends

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• They call them performance artists, but they shouldn't be making an album. They should just be dancers. I don't know, I'm a musical snob. I feel like if you're going to record music and you're going to be a singer, you have to be able to sing.

  Warryn Campbell

  Artist, Musical, Albums

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• Making the ballet really taught me how to get things moving. Ballet dancers don't stand still.

  Guy Maddin

  Moving, Ballet, Taught

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• I've usually never felt comfortable shooting until things were kind of claustrophobic, but ballet dancers need a lot of space, so the sets that I designed had to be big. Normally, I'd design a kitchen that was half the size of a normal kitchen, just to make everything feel kind of womb-like, but the kitchen in a ballet would have to be like 100 feet wide and just as long.

  Guy Maddin

  Feet, Space, Long

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• My whole family is in the arts some way or the other. My father was a cellist in a symphony outside Chicago that was a side-job, he was a scientist. My mother was a dancer in New York. She was next-door neighbors with Dorothy Loudon and they moved to New York together. Mom was a dancer in New York for several years before she got married. My sister was a classical pianist. And my brother was a partier. So it all just seemed to work.

  Jason Graae

  Mom, Mother, Brother

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I initially told people I wanted to be a dancer and ultimately a "Rockette." I didn't really know what a musical theatre performer was other than the Shirley Temple type.

  Erica Schroeder

  People, Musical, Theatre

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• Maybe I'd be a storyboard artist. Graphic novel/comic book artist. Backup dancer. Singer. It would be cool to focus on one of these full time. But I like seeing them all intertwine.

  Jade Hassoune

  Book, Artist, Focus

  Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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• I have a sister who is a dancer and dance teacher. We grew up dancing together. I wanted to become a ballerina when I was a kid, so she and I were always at ballet conservatories and going to school with our hair in buns.

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Teacher, Kids, School

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was a dancer. I was really seriously into dancing.

  Zeena Parkins

  Dancing

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I wanted to be a dancer from when I was about nine or something like that and started ballet. I used to really like it and got into it and did it full time for a couple of years. I did a lot of ballet but I traded that in for acting when I was about 15.

  Mia Wasikowska

  Couple, Years, Ballet

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• My goal has always been to be a principal dancer with ABT.

  Misty Copeland

  Goal, Principal

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I was a terrible dancer. I dance like an Englishman.

  John Cleese

  Terrible, Englishmen

  "Early On, Comedian John Cleese Says, He Had Good Timing But Little Else". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. October 16, 2015.

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• I grew up in a very musical household. There was music and dance. My great-grandma was a famous tap dancer in the '40s, my mom was a dancer, she met my dad on the road when he was on tour in the '60s. Music is my heart and soul, it's my love.

  Taryn Manning

  Mom, Dad, Grandma

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I smoke crack. I get all my dancers together and we do a prayer.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Prayer, Together, Cracks

  "Jim Gaffigan Interview/Giveaway". Brightest Young Things Interview, brightestyoungthings.com. November 26, 2007.

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• You get good at being by yourself and you're condemned to a life sentence of solitude. You think, "Wait a minute! I should have been a tap dancer or something". But in my life, I feel like I take my stories to people orally.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Being Yourself, Thinking, Should Have

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. 2008.

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• I had to learn quick, because I was performing in Cinco de Mayo festivals with babies crying and people lifting their beers, and you know the feather dancers would come, and they'd say, "What are you, a poet? You're next".

  Sandra Cisneros

  Baby, Beer, People

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. 2008.

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• "You're next, after the feather dancers." And you had to get their attention, because otherwise people would go, "Oh, a poet." You really have to learn.

  Sandra Cisneros

  People, Attention, Next

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. September 28, 2006.

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• My biggest downfall is my inner voice. Growing up as a dancer makes you very judgemental with yourself. You learn to look at yourself in the mirror and you criticise every line in your body. It's never perfect. I grew up with this because I had ballet every day in school.

  Carmen Electra

  Growing Up, School, Mirrors

  "Scary Movie 4 - Carmen Electra interview". www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• The only time I feel pressured is when some woman's husband comes over and says, "Will you go ask my wife to dance? She's a great dancer and would just love to dance with you."Suddenly there's a crowd of people standing around us and they expect that they're about to see Fred and Ginger. Here the woman and I have just met, and these people think that it's showtime. That is the only time I think it is really embarrassing.

  Gene Kelly

  Husband, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It fit into my scheme of things for many reasons. At the time it was true that male dancers were looked down upon, and it was true that a lot of the male dancers were effeminate. But what I was really trying to do was develop something that would be American.

  Gene Kelly

  Trying, Males, Would Be

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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