#dancer

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. ↗

— Victoria Beckham

#acting #could #dancer #i #i can

I will say a lot of dancers do such beautiful things for their body and then they smoke a cigarette. I've never been a smoker, but I realized after taking yoga . . . in ballet you're not encouraged to do a lot of breathing. I think in a weird way, a lot of dancers find relief in actually breathing. ↗

— Elizabeth Berkley

#after #ballet #beautiful #beautiful things #been

Independent dance - and, fine, it's a very good thing that it remains independent - is a much tougher life: all dancers expect that, and accept that there will be periods of not being able to work, provided there are choice moments during the year when they really can work. ↗

— Siobhan Davies

#accept #being #choice #dance #dancers

One of our problems is our sense of discipline - dancers have an extraordinary sense of self-discipline. ↗

— Siobhan Davies

#discipline #extraordinary #ordinary sense #our #problems

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. ↗

— Jackson Browne

#burned #dancer #died #down #fire

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. ↗

— Suzanne Farrell

#cincinnati #coming #dancer #going #great

You know, the period of World War I and the Roaring Twenties were really just about the same as today. You worked, and you made a living if you could, and you tired to make the best of things. For an actor or a dancer, it was no different then than today. It was a struggle. ↗

— James Cagney

#actor #best #could #dancer #different

In those days, male dancers were a rarer breed than women. as they are still today, A good male dancer, one as strong as we were, was very difficult to come by if you couldn't afford to pay them. ↗

— Twyla Tharp

#breed #come #dancer #dancers #days

I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being. ↗

— Martha Graham

#another #audience #behavior #being #body

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. ↗

— Xenophon

#any #beauty #compulsion #dancer #does