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A lot of people don't know the first time I was ever on national television I was a 'Soul Train' dancer.

Also, it's good to have more than one profession, in case your own profession goes out of style. A Wall Street trader who's also a belly dancer will do a lot better than a trader who winds up driving a taxi.

...Although, as the Latin verb to educate, educate, indicates, it is not a question of putting something in but drawing it out, if it is there to begin with...I want all of my students and all of my dancers to be aware of the poignancy of life at that moment. I would like to feel that I had, in some way, given them the gift of themselves.

An artist makes something to be physically experienced by another person. It's a raw, freely chosen, interpersonal relationship between the maker and the viewer, so it's close to what a musical composer does, or a poet or a dancer. It is coming out of one's inner being.

A photographer is part pick-pocket and part tightrope dancer.

Any man who looks like a sissy while dancing is just a lousy dancer.

Any Michael Jackson song will make any dancer go nuts.

And if there come the singers, and the dancers and the flute players - buy of their gifts also. For they too are gatherers of fruit and frankincense, and that which they bring, though fashioned of dreams, is raiment and fod for your soul.

As a dancer I couldn't outdance Ginger Rogers or Eleanor Powell. As a singer I'm no rival to Doris Day. As an actress I don't take myself seriously...I'm the girl the truck drivers love.

As a dancer I had worked with really hard choreographers, Jerome Robbins being the toughest. And you learned what it is to hit against a brick wall. And you learned pretty quickly to go around the wall or say, "I can't take this job.

Arthur Murray taught me dancing in a hurry.

As a dancer, obviously, we are all inspired by Michael Jackson, and I always looked up to Gene Kelly. He was a bigger version of Fred Astaire, and he was amazing as well.

As a dancer I've always checked my body constantly; 'Am I having a good day or am I having a fat day?'

As much as I love to dance, and I still take class, aerobics and that sort of thing, and I still move very well and all of that - I'm really not a dancer anymore.

As a singer you're a great dancer.

As dancers, especially for myself, personally, dance constitutes a lot of the conversation that I have. While I'm not a ridiculous wordsmith and I can't clearly verbalize the things that I'm feeling sometimes, I'd say that I can emote how I feel by dancing, 100% of the time, and fearlessly at that.

Forget the dancer, the center of the ego; become the dance. That is meditation.

A tap dancer is really a frustrated drummer.

Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and sulfurous hatreds where anything is likely, and dancers know it.

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

Being a fan of dance and a dancer, I love my classic dance movies.

Being a functioning alcoholic is kind of like being a paraplegic lap dancer: You can do it, just not as well as the others, really.

Being a former dancer, classical dancer, it informed me as a human being just in terms of the grace I guess. Ballet is a very graceful form of art. You also become very aware of your body and your mind and your body is working in conjunction. That kind of helps you in acting as well. It's not only using your mind, it's like making your mind communicate this character into your body so that you can bring it to life and physicalize it.

Being one with life is being one with Now. You then realize that you don't live your life, but life lives you. Life is the dancer, and you are the dance.

Certainly the life of a dancer is very difficult. The training is very hard and relentlessly grueling.

Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list -- the common seed within which all these fabulous beings slumber in embryo is taxation.

Come swish around my pretty punk And keep me dancing still That I may stay a sober man Although I drink my fill.

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

Dancers are allowed, indeed encouraged, to remain children forever.

Dancers are both athletes and artists.

Dancers are kept in a perpetual state of pre-puberty, and for young girls in particular, that type of pressure breeds insecurities.

Dance was always part of my life because I was a dancer and my mother was a dancer, and I love the theater.

Dancing is just discovery, discovery, discovery - what it all means, the way the little bone near the ankle relates itself to the floor for a perfect stance, a perfect plie.

Dancing was a big part of my life, but I would never consider myself a dancer. I adore singing, and music has always been a huge part of my life, but I also enjoy acting.

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.

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

Dean Magraw so liquid, lyrical and effortless it's like listening to a dancer.

Each dancer has a different dialect that they speak.

Ego cannot bring anything extraordinary into the world; the extraordinary comes only through egolessness. And so is the case with the musician and the poet and the dancer. So is the case with everybody.

Every dancer lives on the threshold of chucking it.

Every day I go out and climb, like a dancer who works on his dance. He probably has some goals, some pieces he would like to perform, but his main goal is to work on his dance. This is how he expresses himself. Both he and I are interested in the same thing. It’s the dance that counts.

For me, a dancer is part of an artist’s entertainment - “backup dancer” isn’t even in my vocabulary.

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

For the Indian,dance is a personal form of prayer. When the Eagle Dancer puts on his costume,when he begins to dance to the music,he doesn't simply perform it; he actually becomes the eagle itself. The dancer is virtually inseparable from the dance.

For you are abstract, making no mistake, slurring no word in the rhythm you make, the poem, writ in the air.

Fred Astaire was a more formal, trained dancer who loved waltzing and only danced with the girls.

At our most primitive we are storytellers and dancers.

Backup dancers are completely respectable. They're the studio musicians of dance.

Big Bang may not be the best looking and may not be the best dancers out there,but each member holds a distinct individuality as a weapon that allows them to perform freely

But in another world, another life, probably growing up in another country, I might have been more of a dancer.