Dancer Quotes

No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.

Dancers are stripped enough onstage. You don't have to know more about them than they've given you already.

I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people.

I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.

One is born to be a great dancer.

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.

In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms.

God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.

The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener.

In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better.

I like Frenchmen very much, because even when they insult you they do it so nicely.

I wasn't really naked. I simply didn't have any clothes on.

Beautiful? It's all a question of luck. I was born with good legs. As for the rest... beautiful, no. Amusing, yes.

I believe in prayer. It's the best way we have to draw strength from heaven.

The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains.

This hiatus coming up I'm looking at a comedy because I need the balance.

Talk about divine intervention. I can't even tell you how blessed I feel.

So the only things I was being allowed to audition for were small roles in comedies. It broke my heart. No one would see me for anything else. I knew, in order to open up my career, I had to leave or that's all I would ever be given.

I said, 'I'll give myself two years. If I can't support myself as an actress within two years, then I'll go back to choreography.'

I feel that the work that I have done in the comedy arena, is priceless in terms of what I learned, timing, everything that these incredibly talented performers were generous enough in teaching me.

I don't like to be pigeonholed; I don't like when people won't see me for something because they don't think I can do it. I always feel like, at least give me the shot.

I like comedy, I love it very much, I love laughing.

We still spend more time chasing funds than we do in the studio in creative work.

One of the worst things about racism is what it does to young people.

Nothing personal; I just don't have people over.

No matter what you write or choreograph, you feel it's not enough.

My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man.

Money is a never-ending problem.

Lena Horne is the sweetest and most adorable woman in the world.

It will take very sophisticated marketing to achieve our aim of bringing more black people into the theater.