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Dancers are made, not born. -- Mikhail Baryshnikov
This is the strange thing: Dancers don't age. -- Twyla Tharp
Actors are born, good actors are trained. Dancers are born, good dancers are trained. -- Mithun Chakraborty
To me, this was an oxymoron, doing a painting of a dancer. Dancers are always moving. -- Jamie Wyeth
Dancers are a work of art - they are the canvas on which their work is painted. -- Patrick Duffy
Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult. -- Natalia Makarova
Dancers are the athletes of God. -- Albert Einstein
Dancers are both athletes and artists. -- Margot Fonteyn
Dancers aren't pompous; they're too tired. -- Jose Limon
Dancers are the messengers of the gods. -- Martha Graham
Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays. -- George Balanchine
Dancers aren't made of their technique, but their passion. -- Agnes de Mille
Dancers are the flag bearers of the artistic renaissance. -- Shah Asad Rizvi
Dancers dance through their pain I shrink from mine. -- Mason Cooley
Dancers don't think about things; they just do them. -- Heather Morris
Dancers work really hard, they don't make any money. It's hard. -- Andie MacDowell
Dancers, like all performing artists, like nothing better than to be challenged. -- Karen Kain
Dancers come and go in the twinkling of an eye, but the dance lives on. -- Michael Jackson
Dancers are stripped enough onstage. You don't have to know more about them than they've given you already. -- Mikhail Baryshnikov
I love the noise of my wooden clogs on my wooden floor. Dancers wear clogs. They're good for you. -- Carine Roitfeld
No person can ever know everything that is in the heart of another. We are all Face Dancers in our souls. -- Brian Herbert
Dancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal. The passion and the meaning to their movement can be another thing. -- Martha Graham
Dancers are kept in a perpetual state of pre-puberty, and for young girls in particular, that type of pressure breeds insecurities. -- Mia Wasikowska
Dancers use their bodies in extraordinary ways, so we are chronically pre-arthritic, because of how we use our muscles and our bones. -- Judith Jamison
Dancers work and live from the inside. They drive themselves constantly producing a glow that lights not only themselves but audience after audience. -- Murray Louis
Writing is an art like other arts. Dancers don't dance every once in a while. Musicians don't stop practicing. They are dedicated to what they do. -- Theodora Goss
Dancers carry themselves in completely different ways to how we do in our everyday lives. They are very free with their bodies which I'm not used too. -- Kristin Cavallari
Dancers have always been a kind of background image, we've always danced behind an artist or we've danced in a movie behind the actors. We've always been very secondary. -- Lacey Schwimmer
Dancers have more bones than most people and on the days when you work hard you are sure that you have somehow accumulated more bones than you started with. -- Martha Graham
I know exactly what Einstein meant when he said, "Dancers are the athletes of God." You three look like angels. I can't wait to see you dancing in the Christmas concert. -- Kirsty Murray
We are part of each other and part of something bigger than our own egos. An artist should... bring into the world some vision. Dancers should ask, "What is their work in the service of?" -- Bill T. Jones
I always recommend a sensible diet, including lots of carbohydrates and avoiding too much fat. Dancers don't need different fuel from other people - they just need more of it because they use more energy. -- Deborah Bull
May I just single out for salutations, on the 'anti-war' side: Pop Stars For Appeasement, Dancers Against Democracy, Actors For Apathy, Fashionistas For Fascism and Jugglers For Genocide. All of them united under that flaccid flag of convenience, Show-Offs For Saddam. -- Julie Burchill
Dancers can get to see almost everything now. When I used to go into companies to make a piece, the dancers had hardly ever seen my work. Now they can watch it on YouTube. It means they're much faster at picking up material. -- Wayne McGregor
Dancers are a great breed of people. And they really want to dance so you don't have to beg them to work. However, dancers sometimes build walls around themselves because they are presenting themselves all the time: dancing is very much a confession. -- Suzanne Farrell
My dancers expect me to deliver because my choreography represents their livelihood. -- Twyla Tharp
Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion. -- Martha Graham
When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire. -- Angelina Jolie
For me rappers and dancers are poets and artists and often times the most interesting performances are given by them. -- Ice Cube
I wouldn't say that I am one of the greatest dancers, but I am really quite good at what I do. -- Lady Gaga
It's great that ballroom dancing is being recognised. For many years ballroom dancers were misunderstood and other dance forms didn't want anything to do with us. -- Anton du Beke
God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do. -- George Balanchine
The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind. From this voyage no one returns poor or weary. -- Agnes de Mille
The highest heels I do are six-inch heels - but mostly only dancers can wear them, since they are used to being on point in ballet shoes. Their feet are arched. -- Christian Louboutin
When I dance, I love the romance and sexiness of it, and love having it be clear to both dancers that the man leads! But the man has to know what he's doing! -- Susannah McCorkle
I went through my first big breakup, with a boyfriend who I had been with for more than two years. He had been one of my dancers, and it was my first love and his. -- Christina Aguilera
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
When I started off with 'Dance India Dance,' even the TV show people thought it won't be accepted. But with the talent that the show received, I was able to personally tutor dancers to amalgamate contemporary dance moves on Bollywood tracks. -- Terence Lewis
My wife Juliana and I first saw Eurovision while on our honeymoon in Greece in 2006, and we were amazed by it. They basically recreate a music video onstage, and pyro cannons, LED video screens, background dancers, fireworks, costume changes, and wind machines are their tools. -- Seamus Dever
At the ballet classes I took when I first came to New York, I would see great dancers like Cynthia Gregory and Lupe Serrano. I would look at them and study what they could do, and what I couldn't do. And then I'd think maybe they should try what I could do. -- Twyla Tharp
Same with anyone who's been flying for years and loves it still... we're part of a world we deeply love. Just as musicians feel about scores and melodies, dancers about the steps and flow of music, so we're one with the principle of flight, the magic of being aloft in the wind! -- Richard Bach
As a child growing up in a grey-skied Yorkshire village, I would occasionally happen upon a Bollywood movie on the television. After a few minutes watching a bunch of sari-clad dancers cavorting on a Swiss mountain to tuneless music, I would switch over to some proper drama about housing estates and single mothers. -- Simon Beaufoy
Music videos are notoriously long, not fun, grueling. You are known there as a dancer and it's kind of sad because dancers, in a lot of ways, are under-appreciated and kind of under-respected when it come to that so they don't necessarily treat you in a nice way when you do a music video. -- Jenna Dewan
I will say a lot of dancers do such beautiful things for their body and then they smoke a cigarette. I've never been a smoker, but I realized after taking yoga . . . in ballet you're not encouraged to do a lot of breathing. I think in a weird way, a lot of dancers find relief in actually breathing. -- Elizabeth Berkley
Dancers work and they work and they work, and they master their skills so far that improvisation just comes flowing out of them. Their natural expression of the best they can possibly be comes out of them because there is no boundary to hold them back... That's the mentality that I'm trying to create, recreate and hold on to forever. -- Pete Carroll
I dance with the dancers. -- Walt Whitman
My dancers are the real stars, -- Michael Flatley
I very much like dance and dancers. -- Issey Miyake
A Nation's character is typified by its dancers. -- Confucius
Always the question for dancers is: Can we fly? -- Jean-Christophe Maillot
dancers are allowed, indeed encouraged, to remain children forever ... -- Twyla Tharp
Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times -- Agnes de Mille
At our most primitive we are storytellers and dancers. -- Anne Lamott
Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. -- Agnes de Mille
Beauty, like male ballet dancers, makes some men afraid. -- Mordecai Richler
I always want to have more dancers in my company. -- Alvin Ailey
Obviously, the young dancers lack a certain air of maturity. -- Mikhail Baryshnikov
The actual cheerleaders in our film are all Broadway dancers. -- Brooke Langton
you...are...a...frige...with...wings...we...are...freaking...ballet...dancers! -- James Patterson
Backup dancers are completely respectable. They're the studio musicians of dance. -- Mike Birbiglia
I like dancers. I have a thing for girls who dance. -- Shawn Mendes
There's a line of dancers waiting to get into Sydney Dance Company. -- Graeme Murphy
I disagree with the idea that modern dancers are cold or unemotional. -- Lucinda Childs
Exotic dancers, your instant key to a blissful vacation of the moment. -- Wayne Chirisa
I find that dancers are only well trained in ballet these days. -- Twyla Tharp
The people that have inspired me the most were dancers and choreographers. -- Jillian Hervey
I don't rock for Cancer. I rock for cash, and the topless dancers. -- Kid Rock
My dad photographed a lot of beautiful dancers. My mom was a dancer. -- Ansel Elgort
I actually build my dreams around the dancers I've got in my company. -- Graeme Murphy
Real dancers are the ones who can hear the music in their soul. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
If I ever have any back-up dancers, I want the penguins from Madagascar. -- Ed Sheeran
To see the clothes in movement like that, to create for dancers, is special. -- Isabel Toledo
Diaghilev was the first to notice good character dancers and that sort of thing. -- Ninette de Valois
I don't date dancers, but I've always wanted to teach guys how to dance. -- Briana Evigan
I smoke crack. I get all my dancers together and we do a prayer. -- Jim Gaffigan
I don't go to these places where there are belly dancers and this and that. -- Jeff Goldblum
I look at the dancers and I get the inspiration for the work from them. -- Graeme Murphy
He was one of those earnest, persevering dancers--the kind that have taken twelve correspondence lessons. -- P. G. Wodehouse
People call me the painter of dancers, but I really wish to capture movement itself. -- Edgar Degas
I used to rely too much on arrangements and production, things like dancers and explosions. -- Thalia
We were tap-dancers but we put more style into it, more bodywork, instead of just footwork. -- Harold Nicholas
I don't try to tell the dancers exactly what a dance means before they do it. -- Martha Graham
My parents were opera singers and voice teachers, so growing up, I admired musicians and dancers. -- Sandra Bullock
Making the ballet really taught me how to get things moving. Ballet dancers don't stand still. -- Guy Maddin
My kids have become wonderful dancers themselves and enjoy teaching just as much as I do. -- Bobby Burgess
A person can be danced. In all continents the dancers carry little children on their shoulders. -- Curt Sachs
Like most dancers, I love lip stains! We hate gloss because hair gets stuck in it. -- Heather Morris
Listen - I like musicals. Even when they're bad, there's a couple of dancers I can watch. -- Richard Schiff
One of our problems is our sense of discipline - dancers have an extraordinary sense of self-discipline. -- Siobhan Davies
My songs aren't bubble gum pop dance songs and I don't have background dancers on every single song. -- Avril Lavigne
I closed my eyes to watch tiny dancers like jeweled birds cross the dark screen of my eyelids. -- Janet Fitch
My choreography suits men very well, and the women who can do it are damn hard, strong dancers. -- Paula Abdul
Modern dancers should be doing things no one else is doing, and it should come from the gut.. -- Twyla Tharp
By the way, dancers are not human beings. How can you be human and do what they do? -- Alesha Dixon
Participants in dance, both dancers and viewers, may experience catharsis and develop a sense of mastery or self-discovery. -- Judith Lynne Hanna
I haven't had a family, but I don't think of that as a sacrifice: my dancers are my family. -- Judith Jamison
I think most dancers would agree that the art of ballet chooses the dancer, not the other way around. -- Kevin McKenzie
Ideally if I settled down with a wife I would love to form my own troupe of mini dancers! -- Michael Flatley
To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other -- Jack Handy
To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other. -- Jack Handey
Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music. -- Alvin Ailey
Because muscle is heavier than fat, dancers weigh more than you might think, but they are usually very lean. -- Deborah Bull
Orange and speckled and fluted nudibranchs slide gracefully over the rocks, their skirts waving like the dresses of Spanish dancers. -- John Steinbeck
I think classical ballet dancers dance on pointe because they're simultaneously touching the earth and reaching up to the skies -- Paulo Coelho
After 'The Blues Brothers,' I wanted to do a good musical number with real dancers and shoot it correctly. -- John Landis
Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion. -- Martha Graham
If I can play one note and make you cry, then that's better than those fancy dancers playing twenty notes. -- Robbie Robertson
There are a lot of things that dancers can do that actors cannot and actors can do that dancers cannot. -- Wim Wenders
It's a beautiful sight to see good dancers doing simple steps. It's a painful sight to see beginners doing complicated patterns. -- Dodie Smith
Young dancers are training at a very vulnerable time in their lives... So train the whole person, not just the dancer. -- Deborah Bull

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