Quotes About Great Dancers

#1. To me, this acquirement of nervous, physical, and emotional concentration is the one element possessed to the highest degree by the truly great dancers of the world. Its acquirement is the result of discipline, of energy in the deep sense. That is why there are so few great dancers.

Martha Graham

#2. Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.

Martha Graham

#3. Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.

Martha Graham

#4. 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

#5. I don't have many actors in my family, but I do have a Great Uncle that is a film-maker in Philadelphia, and my great-great-grandparents were Flamenco dancers in the 30's in New York, they were Spanish dancers.

Aubrey Plaza

#6. They had counted on his pity and dreaded his anger; they had not dared consider the third alternative: his indifference.

Ayn Rand

#7. Life is too short to start at the beginning after reaching the end.

B.L. Alley

#8. 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

#9. Both Rick and Amelia were impressed with their graceful movements. The Balinese dance was artistic with great expression. The dancers seemed to be telling a story through their fingers, hands and body gestures, including head and eye movements. It was amazing. Every gesture was elegant.

Linda Weaver Clarke

#10. I spit upon the dancers painted by Degas. I spit upon their short bodies, their stiff stays, their toes whereupon they spin like peg-tops, above all upon that chambermaid face. They might have looked timeless, Remeses the Great, but not the chambermaid, that old maid history. I spit! I spit! I spit!

W.B.Yeats

#11. Are you your clothes? Are you your name? Are you your profession? Stop identifying with them. They come and go

Anthony De Mello

#12. 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

#13. There's something great about terrible westerns. They look like gay dancers and bad, overwrought dialogue and overacting, black and white sped up horses.

Alec Sulkin

#14. The great thing about being the son of Maya Angelou is that I had the good fortune to grow up around some of the greatest black artists, dancers, singers, musicians, and actors of our time.

Guy Johnson

#15. I think it's always great to not be the smartest person in the room because I don't want to ever feel like I can't improve upon what I'm doing. I just want to surround myself with people that are better actors than me and better singers and dancers and see what happens.

Drew Seeley

#16. Bio-terrorism is a threat.

Anthony Fauci

#17. 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

#18. My creed on the subject of slavery is short. Slavery per se is not sin. It is a social condition ordained from the beginning of the world for the wisest purposes, benevolent and disciplinary, by Divine Wisdom.

Samuel Morse

#19. We are the dancers in a great play. The Earth is the stage; the sun gives rays.

Debasish Mridha

#20. The Kirov is a great ballet company because it has so many terrific dancers, but it doesn't always know what to do with them.

Robert Gottlieb

#21. 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

#22. I'm trying to make order out of chaos, trying to find some way of rationalising the horrific things that people do or the way the world is.

Chuck Palahniuk

#23. I'd say the only time I ever get nervous is around great ballet dancers or people I really admire.

Dita Von Teese

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. You don't have to win to be a winner. If you give 100 percent, getting yourself mentally and physically prepared to play the game, if you look in the mirror and can say you give it everything to win, that's it. You're not going to win every time.

Duke Snider