This collection holds 276 dancers quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Mikhail Baryshnikov, Grimes and Issey Miyake.

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Dancers are made, not born.

Usually I perform with dancers.

I very much like dance and dancers.

This is the strange thing: Dancers don't age.

I really have a new-found respect for dancers.

Ballet dancers really know how to enter a room.

I'm really grateful for my dancers' discipline.

I always want to have more dancers in my company.

I like dancers. I have a thing for girls who dance.

Shashi Kapoor and Amitabh Bachchan were good dancers.

Ballet dancers are among the greatest living athletes.

Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.

I have two sisters and neither one of them are dancers.

The actual cheerleaders in our film are all Broadway dancers.

When I'm getting ready for a tour, I'll work out with the dancers.

I know that dancers, especially ballet dancers, can't do it forever.

In Chicago, I walked in knowing what the dancers were going to need.

My dad photographed a lot of beautiful dancers. My mom was a dancer.

I actually build my dreams around the dancers I've got in my company.

I'm pretty gutsy. Dancers don't think about things; they just do them.

I don't date dancers, but I've always wanted to teach guys how to dance.

Some people are painters, and some are ballet dancers, and I'm a writer.

Choreographers tend to treat ballet dancers like kids they can manipulate.

I don't go to these places where there are belly dancers and this and that.

How many dancers in their life get a job that will last 15 years? Not many.

I wanna get backup singers, but I don't think I will ever get backup dancers.

Dancers are a work of art - they are the canvas on which their work is painted.

Dancers, like all performing artists, like nothing better than to be challenged.

Backup dancers are completely respectable. They're the studio musicians of dance.

For ballet dancers, style is about melding personal expression with physical form.

You always want to please your choreographer, director. Dancers are just that way.

I don't ever use dancers, and when I do, it's literally, like, four break dancers.

When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire.

Actors are born, good actors are trained. Dancers are born, good dancers are trained.

To me, this was an oxymoron, doing a painting of a dancer. Dancers are always moving.

My sisters and my brother were all very much into music. A couple of them were dancers.

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

Listen - I like musicals. Even when they're bad, there's a couple of dancers I can watch.

I love to have a band, but dancers are my priority because I really want a show, you know?

The general impression about fat people is that they are romantic, funny and good dancers.

I haven't had a family, but I don't think of that as a sacrifice: my dancers are my family.

I used to rely too much on arrangements and production, things like dancers and explosions.

I love the physicality of instruments, and instruments as objects, like dancers are bodies.

I like to express myself inside of the work that is given, and I let the dancers do the same.

I wouldn't say that I am one of the greatest dancers, but I am really quite good at what I do.

Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.

Compared to professional dancers, I'm obviously not professional but I do love to dance so much.

My parents were opera singers and voice teachers, so growing up, I admired musicians and dancers.

I love the noise of my wooden clogs on my wooden floor. Dancers wear clogs. They're good for you.

I'd say the only time I ever get nervous is around great ballet dancers or people I really admire.

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