#dancer

No one can hand you anything as a dancer. You have to earn it. ↗

— Elizabeth Berkley

#dancer #earn #hand #you

It's not that I wanted to be an actor; it's that I didn't want to be a dancer! I was trained in traditional Chinese dance, and after working so hard it seemed unfair to just disappear into a group. ↗

— Ziyi Zhang

#after #chinese #dance #dancer #disappear

The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing. ↗

— Doris Humphrey

#art #believes #cannot #dancer #dancing

Due to a big bust in Cuba, my father's business suffered badly, so I was free to choose my own career. I became a professional dancer, and I went on the road and started making real money. ↗

— Cesar Romero

#became #big #business #bust #career

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

He's at ease, his body sculpted to the music, his shoulder searching the other shoulder, his right toe knowing the left knee, the height, the depth, the form, the control, the twist of his wrist, the bend of his elbow, the tilt of his neck, notes digging into arteries, and he is in the air now, forcing the legs up beyond muscular memory, one last press of the thighs, an elongation of form, a loosening of human contour, he goes higher and is skyheld. ↗

— Colum McCann

#dancer #music

It's funny because a lot of people that know me as a dancer, don't know that I'm a singer, and a lot of people that know I can sing don't know I can dance. And so, I feel like at some point I have to show them both and really be able to display it and showcase it, and put that out there. ↗

— Naima Adedapo

#because #both #dance #dancer #display

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

If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts. ↗

— Ritchie Blackmore

#ballet dancer #clumsy #counts #dancer #falls

I get enough sleep. I take very good care of myself. Growing up as a dancer, you know your body so well, you know what to do to overcome something. ↗

— Elizabeth Berkley

#care #dancer #enough #get #good