Dancer Quotes

Well, I was sort of a jack-of-all-trades in show business for a long time. I was a singer and a dancer and then I got a job as an actor.

My father was a promoter of Fresh Fest, and they needed an opening act. He got me a slot as a dancer. We tried it out the first time in Atlanta and the crowd went crazy. I was the opening clown.

We are a very typical Spanish family - a bullfighter, an actress, a flamenco dancer and singer!

Repetitiveness and discipline are the secrets of cake decorating. The art comes from the meticulous technique, the way it does for a dancer.

Since the days of slavery, if you were a good singer or dancer, it was your job to perform for the master after dinner.

A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.

For what the horse does under compulsion, as Simon also observes, is done without understanding; and there is no beauty in it either, any more than if one should whip and spur a dancer.

I've got no plans to be a ballet dancer at the moment.

What's a dancer's worst enemy? Sometimes it's age, but sometimes it's the dancer themselves.

How can we know the dancer from the dance?

I was a ballet dancer and that kind of bled into musical theater. I was constantly in rehearsal for one thing or another.

You have to be a little crazy to be a dancer.

No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.

I met my wife, Doreen, who was a dancer in the show.

A good dancer is an educated one, so don't abandon school.

When I first came to New York I was a dancer, and a French record label offered me a recording contract and I had to go to Paris to do it. So I went there and that's how I really got into the music business. But I didn't like what I was doing when I got there, so I left, and I never did a record there.

I have been very lucky to work in so many new ballets, but that is what a dancer's work is.

I can relax in L.A. I think I'm the only person in that town who doesn't want to act. I was an OK singer. I was an OK dancer. But acting? Never could do it.

By patting somebody on the back, a boy or a girl, a professional dancer, male, female, it really makes people feel good and I know it certainly made me feel good.