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He was one of those earnest, persevering dancers--the kind that have taken twelve correspondence lessons.
I was always a singer and a dancer, and I always wanted to be an actress. For me, it's all just one thing.
Now I want to become an artist, rather than one thing, like a dancer, or a movie star, or a choreographer.
There were many good actresses in my time like Jane Powell and Debbie Reynolds, but I was the only dancer.
It's like, either you're a great dancer and you're going to do great, or it doesn't come naturally to you.
If I can play one note and make you cry, then that's better than those fancy dancers playing twenty notes.
I've done tons of Debbie Allen musicals. I was a dancer in 'Glee,' and I was a Laker girl for three months.
Dancers are stripped enough onstage. You don't have to know more about them than they've given you already.
Dance was always part of my life because I was a dancer and my mother was a dancer, and I love the theater.
I have trod a measure, I have flattered a lady, I have been politic with my friend, smooth with mine enemy.
Because muscle is heavier than fat, dancers weigh more than you might think, but they are usually very lean.
I copied my brother. He was a natural dancer. Graceful. People always asked did we study ballet. We never did.
But in another world, another life, probably growing up in another country, I might have been more of a dancer.
I've never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.
Now, 'Dasher!' now, 'Dancer!' now, 'Prancer' and 'Vixen!' On, 'Comet!' on, 'Cupid!' on, 'Donner' and 'Blitzen!'
I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tighrope dancer so that no incompetent would dare step upon it.
Dad, who worked as a plumber, was a quiet and undemanding man who liked to laugh - and he was a very good dancer.
I started out as a dancer as a kid; I've been dancing since I was 4. So performing was always part of what I was.
Marriage, families, all relationships are more a process of learning the dance rather than finding the right dancer
I have always done exercise because I was a dancer, and it is probably good for you. I have done yoga consistently.
If we could be pure dancers in spirit we would never be afraid to love, and we would love with strength and wisdom.
I didn't know if I could act, but I knew I could be a great ballet dancer, and Balanchine put out the carpet for me.
Diana Vishneva is not only a magnificent dancer but a magnificent actress - no one works harder or understands more.
If you want to join the ranks of the people who changed the game, change yourself and the people around you as well.
When I was very young I wanted to be an opera singer, a ballet dancer... The people I loved were a little different.
I'm not a great dancer. I know I'm not. But I know that I can move. I can throw shapes, just not in the right order.
I was a go-go dancer at the Dom on East 10th Street in NYC. This was a glittering ballroom over Stanley's Bar. 1965.
I'm not a dancer, so I have to find a movement that belongs to me. I dance within my limits and with my imagination.
I wanted to be a ballet dancer. I was bad - I'm not very coordinated. But I always wished I could have been a dancer.
When I went to the sets of 'ABCD,' I felt younger. Surrounded by so many young dancers, I, too, became a dancer again.
When I first moved to L.A. as a dancer, all I wanted to do was dance. I never even considered trying to act or direct.
You can't help but be creative, we all are unique beings and have a unique story to tell from different walks of life.
The majority of people know me as a dancer, but they don't also know that I'm a director, a songwriter and a producer.
Since the days of slavery, if you were a good singer or dancer, it was your job to perform for the master after dinner.
I was a dancer before I was an actress, so I've always been someone who likes to communicate from my body and movement.
If I had an extra 20 or 50 years physically, I could have been the dancer of my dreams. But I never became that dancer.
Wouldn't have pegged you for a dancer," he spoke to my mind "Funny, I would have pegged you for a stalker," I shot back.
Someone is dead. Even the trees know it, those poor old dancers who come on lewdly, all pea-green scarfs and spine pole.
Yoga changed my body 100 percent. It tones everything and leans you out. Dancer's pose is amazing. It works every muscle!
But I still show up for gentleman practice in the company of lead dancers, hoping their grace will get stuck in my shoes.
Being a dancer or athlete of any type teaches you the fundamentals of discipline... and the ability to know you can grow.
I was a ballet dancer and that kind of bled into musical theater. I was constantly in rehearsal for one thing or another.
So I'm studying ballet every day and really training so people will see me as a ballet dancer, which no one's seen before.
Maybe its a generational thing, but I never wanted to be the best black dancer in the world. I just wanted to be the best.
I heard a lot in school, 'You've got a really great talent, but there's no way you're going to be a dancer with that body.
Everyone abroad knows me because of the songs 'Jimmy Jimmy Aaja Aaja' and 'I Am A Disco Dancer,' both from 'Disco Dancer.'
I wanted to be a professional dancer for a period of time, and I did a lot of dancing and choreography and got paid for it.
Maybe it's a generational thing, but I never wanted to be the best black dancer in the world. I just wanted to be the best.
It was the only ambition I ever had - not to be a dancer or Hollywood movie star, but to be a housewife in a good marriage.
I went away when I was 9 to a ballet school. I thought I wanted to be a dancer, but eight years of ballet cured me of that.