Great Dancer Quotes

#1. for a great dancer has no time, no generation, he moves eternally through the world, so that any dancer in any age may recognize him.

Zadie Smith

#2. In Europe, a great dancer might be on the same level as a movie star. In America, not so.

Patricia McBride

#3. You realize you can get good at something, even though ballet almost felt like you could never be good enough. No matter how hard you worked, it was so hard to be a great dancer.

Susanna Hoffs

#4. Pamela Anderson is a great dancer considering she can't see her feet.

David Letterman

#5. I think I just have this need to be a storyteller. That's why I wasn't a great dancer - I couldn't articulate a story. I was a better choreographer. I have the need to to just express myself in that way. I can't explain it.

Rosie Perez

#6. Someone need not be perfect to be a great dancer - feeling a soul is more important than what the body can do.

Marcia Haydee

#7. I listen to all sorts of music, but I'm not musically talented. Everyone expects me to be a good singer or musician, but I really am terrible. I'm a great dancer, though.

Jade Jagger

#8. What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.

Martha Graham

#9. The Great Dancer is my husband," Mira says, "rain washes off all the other colors.

Mirabai

#10. My current role model is Beyonce. She is such a strong woman. She can do everything. She has kept herself together and has balanced her life perfectly. She is a great singer, great dancer and a great looker and is now a good mother and wife.

Sunidhi Chauhan

#11. One is born to be a great dancer.

George Balanchine

#12. I'm not a great dancer. I know I'm not. But I know that I can move. I can throw shapes, just not in the right order.

Mika.

#13. As a singer you're a great dancer.

Amy Leslie

#14. I heard a lot in school, 'You've got a really great talent, but there's no way you're going to be a dancer with that body.'

Tracy Anderson

#15. I'm not a dancer, and it was very time-consuming. But I met great people, and it was flattering to be asked to be on. You don't understand how demanding that show is until you're on the inside. That is real work. Real work!

Wendy Williams

#16. He'd make a great Chippendales dancer - if he weren't already a prince. And a wizard, to boot.

Cate Rowan

#17. Dancer, bride, runaway wife, radical filmmaker and pioneer -
Shirley Clarke is one of the great undertold stories of American independent cinema.

Manohla Dargis

#18. Beyonce is a beautiful, elegant woman who is also a wonderful dancer. And her voice is sublime. Just like her husband, Jay-Z, Beyonce has real talent. They are both the kind of truly great artist who will be remembered by history. Their child will be lucky to have such talented parents.

Azzedine Alaia

#19. What I mean is that none of my talents had a - what's that great word - rubric. A singer, an actor, a dancer - there was nothing I could really say I was. The writing came much later. And, actually, thank God, because if I had said I'm a singer, I would really have just had one thing to do.

Steve Martin

#20. Coming from being a dancer, it was a great way for me to transition into being an actress. I get to really be expressive through my physical self, and that was just a comfortable way for me to start experimenting with how to get my character across.

Summer Glau

#21. When I was a dancer, I felt this great sense of knowing my body and being in my body, and I think it's really easy as women to lose that and not really be one and loving it.

Lyndsy Fonseca

#22. I see we have a problem.' Lucas gripped her other arm and gave her a non-too-gentle shake. 'Are you in a relationship? or...' Those dark eyes searching hers narrowed into slits. 'Are you married?

C.C. MacKenzie

#23. Figure skating has been a great influence for me. I took dance at the School of American Ballet, which helped my own skating. And whether you are a skater or a dancer, without sounding narcissistic, it is all about looking in the mirror.

Vera Wang

#24. You are a dancer in this great stage we call life. Your imagination is the writer and thoughts are the director of the dance drama. So unleash your thoughts to dramatize your dance.

Debasish Mridha

#25. Dancing's not work. You can't call it work. A day I don't dance is a day I don't live.

Wendy Buonaventura

#26. I grew up as a dancer. I did tap, classical ballet, all of that. I did Indian dancing, or Bharata Natyam, classic temple dancing from Madras, originally. My mother always had the great idea that I should learn it.

Roselee Goldberg

#27. A dancer, if she is great, can give to the people something that they can carry with them forever. They can never forget it, and it has changed them, though they may never know it.

Isadora Duncan

#28. I had a wonderful childhood, coming from Cincinnati, and I think that it was great going into the life that I was going to have, where you have to start young as a dancer.

Suzanne Farrell

#29. I didn't know if I could act, but I knew I could be a great ballet dancer, and Balanchine put out the carpet for me.

Jacques D'Amboise

#30. Your inner Belly Dancer ... is your inner sensuality, your highest feminity, your great esteemed self made more apparent.

Leandra J. Kalsy

#31. Mark Twain was so good with crowds that he became, in competition with singers and dancers and actors and acrobats, one of the most popular performers of his time. It is so unusual, and so psychologically unlikely, too, for a great writer to be a great performer, too ...

Kurt Vonnegut

#32. I set as my goal to be the best dancer I could be. Not the most famous, or the highest paid dancer, just the best I could be. Out of this discipline came great freedom and calm.

Suzanne Farrell

#33. A dancer isn't great because of their technique ... they're great because of their passion.

Martha Graham