Dancer Quotes

I wrote the song For A Dancer for a friend of mine who died in a fire. He was in the sauna in a house that burned down, so he had no idea anything was going on. It was very sad.

I'm a terrible dancer. The worst.

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.

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

I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.

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.

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

I was always a singer and a dancer, and I always wanted to be an actress. For me, it's all just one thing.

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.

I was a freestyle dancer; I wasn't trained.

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.

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 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.