Dancers Quotes

My songs aren't bubble gum pop dance songs and I don't have background dancers on every single song.

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!

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

Well, it's not full time - my dancers are only paid for six months of the year in two three-month blocks; but yes, it is possible we could do it in another year.

Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music.

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.

I was a dancer from a young age. My parents were dancers; we were taken to a lot of ballet as children. It occurred to me that what I liked more than dancing the steps was acting the story of whatever particular performance I was taking part in.

The actual cheerleaders in our film are all Broadway dancers.

Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.

There's a line of dancers waiting to get into Sydney Dance Company.

Dancers, like all performing artists, like nothing better than to be challenged.

When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire.

I am into belly dancing. I used to only hang with comics. Now I have friends who are dancers, and my whole house has a harem feel.

After 'The Blues Brothers,' I wanted to do a good musical number with real dancers and shoot it correctly.

Because muscle is heavier than fat, dancers weigh more than you might think, but they are usually very lean.

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.

That is perceptive of you, because in this country men dancers have always been viewed with suspicion. If you were an actor, a star, and a dancer, you had to be, or have a name like someone "mainstream."

My parents were opera singers and voice teachers, so growing up, I admired musicians and dancers.

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.

For me rappers and dancers are poets and artists and often times the most interesting performances are given by them.

Those 25 dancers we worked with for a day, in as highly productive a way as possible - a long class, a period of teaching bits of the repertory - in fact I didn't teach Bank, I've used parts of Oil and Water.

One of our problems is our sense of discipline - dancers have an extraordinary sense of self-discipline.

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.

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.