Dancer Quotes
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My background is somewhat unusual, as I trained to be a ballet dancer. I worked in the theatre for eight or nine years as a contemporary dancer.
Will Kemp
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My background is somewhat unusual, as I trained to be a ballet dancer. I worked in the theatre for eight or nine years as a contemporary dancer.
Will Kemp
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[On explaining why she never tapped on-screen] I was pulled up as a ballet dancer and I wasn`t used to pounding the floor with bent knees.
Cyd Charisse
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[on actress/dancer Jessie Matthews] She was a much greater dancer than Ginger Rogers and I thought a better actress.
Dirk Bogarde
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[on actress/dancer Jessie Matthews] She was a much greater dancer than Ginger Rogers and I thought a better actress.
Dirk Bogarde
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A dancer knows how to move naturally. Dancing allows me to do almost subliminal things as an actress that the audience might sense, but yet not be fully aware of.
Dee Wallace
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[on John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever (1977)] He`s not a dancer. What he did in those dance scenes was very attractive but he is basically not a dancer. I was dancing like that years ago, you know. Disco is just jitterbug.
Fred Astaire
Keywords: 1977 :: ago :: attractive :: basically :: but :: dance :: dancer :: dancing :: did :: disco :: fever :: he :: in :: is :: jitterbug :: john :: just :: know :: like :: night :: not :: on :: saturday :: scenes :: that :: those :: travolta :: very :: was :: what :: years :: youSource: imdb.com
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[on John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever (1977)] He`s not a dancer. What he did in those dance scenes was very attractive but he is basically not a dancer. I was dancing like that years ago, you know. Disco is just jitterbug.
Fred Astaire
Keywords: 1977 :: ago :: attractive :: basically :: but :: dance :: dancer :: dancing :: did :: disco :: fever :: he :: in :: is :: jitterbug :: john :: just :: know :: like :: night :: not :: on :: saturday :: scenes :: that :: those :: travolta :: very :: was :: what :: years :: youSource: imdb.com
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I like to dance. I probably would have been a dancer. I love music, it`s good for the soul and dancing is good for people. I dance on my own, I go to classes, I have that sort of energy. I need to dance. People only need to dance to make them feel happy. ...
Anjelica Huston
Keywords: and :: been :: classes :: dance :: dancer :: dancing :: do :: energy :: feel :: for :: go :: good :: happy :: have :: is :: it :: like :: love :: make :: music :: my :: need :: of :: on :: only :: own :: people :: probably :: sort :: soul :: that :: the :: them :: to :: what :: wouldSource: imdb.com
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They [Barnes Theatre Club] were a very good group, and for some reason when I finished the backstage thing, I just decided to that I should try to act. So I auditioned for Guys and Dolls and got a little tiny part as some Cuban dancer or something and the...
Robert Pattinson
Keywords: act :: and :: as :: auditioned :: backstage :: barnes :: club :: cuban :: dancer :: decided :: dolls :: finished :: for :: good :: got :: group :: guys :: in :: just :: little :: or :: part :: reason :: should :: so :: some :: something :: that :: the :: theatre :: then :: they :: thing :: tiny :: to :: try :: very :: were :: whenSource: imdb.com
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I used to do puppet theatre and also mime and musical theatre in Florida for competitions and festivals, which was great. I was very much involved in theatre when I was in college. It`s funny because all I wanted to do when I was young was to become a dan...
Wesley Snipes
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I know I`m not the greatest singer or dancer, but that doesn`t interest me, I`m interested in being provocative and pushing people`s buttons.
Madonna Ciccone
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No, though, I`m not a dancer. I`m a one routine dancer. I can do what you see in the movie [Havana Nights], but if you ask me to do something else, it`d take me another two months.
Diego Luna
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No, though, I`m not a dancer. I`m a one routine dancer. I can do what you see in the movie [Havana Nights], but if you ask me to do something else, it`d take me another two months.
Diego Luna
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I am not the first straight dancer, nor the last.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Society was so much more prudish in the 1960s. In one episode of The Avengers I played a belly dancer and I had to stick a jewel in my navel because the Americans wouldn`t tolerate them. In those days you didn`t flash the boobs at all. What you did do to ...
Diana Rigg
Keywords: 1960s :: all :: americans :: and :: at :: avengers :: because :: belly :: boobs :: dancer :: days :: did :: didn :: do :: episode :: flash :: had :: in :: jewel :: loo :: more :: much :: my :: navel :: of :: one :: played :: prudish :: so :: society :: stick :: the :: them :: those :: to :: tolerate :: was :: what :: wouldn :: youSource: imdb.com
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My parents met in the theatre and I thought that was so romantic. My dad was a scenic designer and my mom was a dancer, and that`s how they met, they met in the theatre. And I thought, yes!, I get to be like my mom and my dad.
Skye McCole Bartusiak
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[on the late Fred Astaire] "No dancer can watch him and not know that all the rest of us should be in a different business. Astaire is remote. It`s as if he were in an incubator, breathing his own air. His perfection is like crystal: you can see through i...
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Keywords: air :: all :: an :: and :: as :: astaire :: be :: breathing :: business :: can :: crystal :: dancer :: different :: fred :: he :: him :: his :: if :: in :: incubator :: is :: it :: know :: late :: like :: no :: not :: of :: on :: own :: perfection :: remote :: rest :: see :: should :: that :: the :: through :: us :: watch :: were :: youSource: imdb.com
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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 t...
Madonna Ciccone
Keywords: and :: business :: but :: came :: contract :: dancer :: didn :: do :: doing :: first :: french :: go :: got :: had :: how :: into :: it :: label :: like :: me :: music :: new :: offered :: paris :: really :: record :: recording :: so :: that :: the :: ther :: there :: to :: was :: went :: what :: when :: yorkSource: imdb.com
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[on tap dancer Eleanor Powell] Eleanor was an out-and-out dancer. She danced like a man. She slammed the floor and did it great and that`s fine and suddenly she`s on her toes in the ballet sequence -- it did look kinda funny.
Fred Astaire
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[on tap dancer Eleanor Powell] Eleanor was an out-and-out dancer. She danced like a man. She slammed the floor and did it great and that`s fine and suddenly she`s on her toes in the ballet sequence -- it did look kinda funny.
Fred Astaire
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When I was a little girl, I wanted to deliver babies. And then I wanted to be a dancer. And then, I have always wanted to act and then I became a chef and I really love singing.
Jamie Luner
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I`m taking singing lessons,and plan to put on a one-woman show to be the new Shirley MacLaine or Liza Minnelli. Singing. Dancing. I love it. Okay I`m not the best singer, and I`m not the best dancer, but I can still put on a show, right? I`m so scared, an...
Jamie Luner
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I was always a singer and a dancer, and I always wanted to be an actress. For me, it`s all just one thing.
Jennifer Lopez
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That`s why I take on a variety of roles. I`ve played everything from a gay dancer in Cruising (1980) to Dutch Schultz in The Cotton Club (1984). James Remar is a student of life. I`m expressing myself by acting. I`m learning about myself and making a livi...
James Remar
Keywords: 1980 :: 1984 :: about :: acting :: and :: by :: club :: cotton :: cruising :: dancer :: dutch :: everything :: expressing :: from :: gay :: hop :: in :: is :: james :: learning :: life :: living :: making :: myself :: of :: on :: played :: remar :: roles :: schultz :: student :: take :: that :: the :: to :: variety :: ve :: whySource: imdb.com
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I never wanted to be a dancer. It`s true! I wanted to be a shortstop for the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Gene Kelly
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[on actress/dancer Leslie Caron] A ballet dancer really, but technically good. I called her the sergeant major.
Fred Astaire
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[on actress/dancer Leslie Caron] A ballet dancer really, but technically good. I called her the sergeant major.
Fred Astaire
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Rhythym is born in all of us. To be a desirable dancing partner you don`t have to do all the intricate fancy steps that happen to be in vogue. All you have to do is be a good average dancer and anybody who spends the time and effort can accomplish this.
Ginger Rogers
Keywords: accomplish :: all :: and :: anybody :: average :: be :: born :: can :: dancer :: dancing :: desirable :: do :: don :: effort :: fancy :: good :: happen :: have :: in :: intricate :: is :: of :: partner :: rhythym :: spends :: steps :: that :: the :: this :: time :: to :: us :: vogue :: who :: youSource: imdb.com
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I started as a dancer when I was a little kid. I realized I didn`t like dancing as much as being onstage and having people clap for me. That`s how I segued into acting, the shortened version.
Amber Benson
