Dancer Quotes

Take your work seriously, but never yourself.

Life forms illogical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return?

Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.

Whenever I hear, 'It can't be done,' I know I'm close to success.

Ideally if I settled down with a wife I would love to form my own troupe of mini dancers!

I'm proud of my Irish heritage and culture and this show will feature a lot of Irish dancing.

I'm at a stage in my life when I want a wife and a family.

I would rather be having a burger and beers with my mates but I can't do that when I know I've got to dance.

I wasn't even sure I'd be able to walk. I couldn't even go outside. Maybe I was just burnt crisp from the gruelling schedule I had been keeping for years.

I feel like a tiger right now. There's nothing impossible if you get up and work for it.

I don't believe that when you are 25 you are over the hill. Fifty is the new 30.

Anything is possible. I've got a few more miles in me. I'm not going to feel sorry for myself.

So dancing was not something I had a great desire to do.

Once I started dancing, I was not the spoiled brat or the rebellious child that I was as a child.

On the other hand, I think it is wonderful for everyone to take ballet classes, at any age. It gives you a discipline, it gives you a place to go. It gives you some control in your life.

Of course, in the art class, I was the model.

In fact, ballet companies did not exist in the Midwest when I was a child.

I'm thought of as a cool, unemotional dancer, but inside I'm not.

I was very much of a tomboy.

I used to love to play dress-up, where you get your mother's or your grandmother's dresses and high heels.

I think especially in a world where you have so little say about what goes on in your life, or in the politics of the world around you, it is wonderful to go into that studio, and tell yourself what to do.

I loved tests because it was another form of competing, a healthy competition.

I liked to read but, being a dancer, I didn't have a lot of time to read.

I liked tap, because I liked hearing the results of my movements.

I liked Latin, I like languages, I liked all the myths, and the Roman tales that we were required to translate in Latin, and all these interesting people who were never quite what they thought they would be or seemed to be.

I learned to love dance for its own sake.

I had two sisters, and we would love to get dressed up and pretend that we were chic, sophisticated ladies. And I think that was a great sort of preparation, in a way.

I had a wonderful childhood, coming from Cincinnati, and I think that it was great going into the life that I was going to have, where you have to start young as a dancer.

I didn't have any doubts about my choice of career, but I had constant doubts about my ability, yes.

I didn't care too much for ballet, because you had to be more disciplined, and you sort of looked like everyone else. It required a certain kind of conformity that I didn't feel like I wanted to do.