Dancer Quotes - Page 32

• I had been working predominantly and steadily as a dancer, so after awhile, you don't have to audition. I was just in that world, and I had certain goals I wanted to reach, but I definitely always wanted to keep going and challenge myself and become an actor.

  Kenny Wormald

  Goal, Challenges, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm now a pretty good mix of my mother and my stepfather because I'm in general pretty mellow. I'm not hyper-emotional. But there's also this side of me - my mother was an artist and very funny and a dancer and very wild and into fashion. My stepfather traveled a lot, and I kind of took on a role of parenting my mother a lot of times, because she was pretty hard to handle. A bit of a pistol.

  Tig Notaro

  Mother, Fashion, Artist

  "Tig Notaro: You’ll Laugh, You’ll Cry". Interview with Sydney Brownstone, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2013.

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• There was a little part of me that always felt like I was going to be an actress, but I never acted when I was growing up. I was a dancer. That's all I did, all day, all my life. Maybe this was just where I was meant to be, and somehow I ended up here, but it just felt right. As soon as I started acting, it just felt like it was meant to be.

  Summer Glau

  Growing Up, Acting, Actresses

  Source: collider.com

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• I did mega-training with ex-military men. I'd be in the gym for two hours after a 12-hour day on Spooks, and it was so hardcore I'd throw up. I stuffed myself with food and drank protein shakes to bulk up. I used to be a dancer, but I had to strap my weak ankles every day and strengthen my wrists so I could hold a machine gun. My body just wasn't up to it.

  Richard Armitage

  Military, Men, Gun

  "Richard Armitage: 'I was a beanpole with a nose I hadn't grown into'". Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. May 30, 2010.

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• There is something about dance that is actually a great tension. There is something that is incredibly freeing about dancing for dancers who do it. They tend to be really arty and interesting people in real life. At the same time, they have an incredibly rigorous training schedule.

  George Nolfi

  Real, People, Dancing

  "Writer-Director George Nolfi Exclusive Interview THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. February 26, 2011.

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• I was a ballet dancer for so long, but when I realized I had reached my limit and that I couldn't go any further I knew I wanted to pursue acting. That's one thing you don't use as a dancer - your voice. And the one thing I use most in my life is my voice so it's wonderful to get to express myself artistically through the biggest instrument I use.

  Zoe Saldana

  Voice, Long, Ballet

  "Blu-Ray/DVD Essentials: Zoe Saldana on 'Guardians of the Galaxy'". Interview with Earl Dittman, www.digitaljournal.com. December 07, 2014.

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• I think people are people and, if their feelings are truthful, they can connect. It doesn't matter if you're an aging, 50-something wrestler at the end of his career, or an ambitious, 20-something ballet dancer.

  Darren Aronofsky

  Thinking, Careers, People

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 28, 2010.

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• The life of a dancer is not for everyone. You really have to have some thick skin. You really have to know what you're going into and how competitive the field is.

  Stephen Boss

  Skins, Fields, Thick Skin

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• I focus on having a feminine body, a dancer's body. I do resistance and dance and cardio. I like hiking, swimming, being active. It clears your mind and it's a good way to decompress.

  Ashley Greene

  Inspirational, Dance, Swimming

  Interview With Anne Brodie, www.askmen.com.

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• I'm always very nervous about the word 'dancer' next to my name because anyone who's really trained in dance will go, 'This guy's fudging so badly.'

  Hugh Jackman

  Inspirational, Dance, Names

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• That's a traditional Samoan dance. I was lucky that I was able to fly my cousins, who are professional dancers, up from Hawaii and they were able to be in the movie with me. We had a great time.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Dance, Sports, Cousin

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• It takes ten years, usually, to make a dancer. It takes ten years of handling the instrument, handling the material with which you are dealing, for you to know it completely.

  Martha Graham

  Dance, Years, Dancing

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• Some people seem to think that good dancers are born, but all the good dancers I have known are taught or trained.

  Fred Astaire

  Dance, Learning, Thinking

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• It is this mission of the dancer to contribute to the betterment of all mankind.

  Ruth St. Denis

  Dance, Missions, Mankind

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• To express what is the most moral, healthful and beautiful in art this is the mission of the dancer, and to this I dedicate my life.

  Isadora Duncan

  Beautiful, Dance, Art

  Isadora Duncan (1909). “The Dance”

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• A dancer should learn from all the arts. Go to museums and look at the paintings. See how they balance things. Everything you do in the arts enriches you.

  Alicia Alonso

  Dance, Art, Learning

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• Mannerism is not character, and affectation is the avowed enemy of grace. Every dancer ought to regard his laborious art as a link in the chain of beauty, as a useful ornament for the stage, and this, in turn, as an important element in the spiritual development of nations.

  August Bournonville

  Dance, Spiritual, Art

  August Bournonville (1979). “My theatre life”, Wesleyan

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• I used to love to see Willie Pep and Ray Robinson. To me, the epitome of a great athlete is a great boxer. I just love the rhythm of seeing a man dance, slip punches. I loved the dancers and boxers. I would see them and be mesmerized.

  Emanuel Steward

  Athlete, Men, Rays

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• I've reached a point where I'm comfortable in my own skin, and I do what I need to do, to feel good, but I'm built the way I am. The dancer's feet, the bruises on my legs, they're not going to go away. I think real girls have bruises. Tough chicks get bruised. They get dirty. And they have fun.

  Nina Dobrev

  Girl, Fun, Real

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My body is very different from most of the dancers I dance with. My hair is different than most I dance with. But I didn't let that stop me. Black girls rock and can be ballerinas.

  Misty Copeland

  Girl, Hair, Rocks

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• As a dancer I couldn't outdance Ginger Rogers or Eleanor Powell. As a singer I'm no rival to Doris Day. As an actress I don't take myself seriously...I'm the girl the truck drivers love.

  Betty Grable

  Girl, Rivals, Singers

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• The hoop dancer dances within what encircles him, demonstrating how the people live in motion within the circling spirals of time and space. They are no more limited than water and sky. At green corn dance time, water and sky come together, in Indian time, to make rain.

  Paula Gunn Allen

  Rain, Space, Sky

  Paula Gunn Allen (2015). “The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions”, p.124, Open Road Media

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• Death is by no means separate from life. . . . We all interact with death every day, tasting it as we might a wine, feeling its keen edge even in trifling losses and disappointments, holding it by the hand, as a dancer might a partner, in every separation.

  Eugene Kennedy

  Death, Disappointment, Mean

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• The moon has become a dancer
  at this festival of LOVE.

  Rumi

  Moon, Festivals

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “The PrIVILeged Lovers”

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• If you have a body you are a dancer

  Gabrielle Roth

  Body, Ifs

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