I’m not a good dancer, but I try. I don’t really have the moves.
I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as a songwriter, or only as a tap dancer. I like to move around.
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.
My curves became an integral part of who I am as a dancer, not something I needed to lose to become one.
No, I chose the name Jane Seymour because I was doing my first film, ‘Oh! What a Lovely War,’ and one of the top agents in England spotted me dancing in the chorus. I was a singer and dancer in that movie with Maggie Smith, um, and he told me he couldn’t sell me as Joyce Penelope Willomena Frankenburger.
Sylvie Guillem is the best dancer in the world.
I really became convinced I wanted to tell the story of the real-life model for the Degas sculpture ‘Little Dancer Aged 14,’ which was unveiled in 1881, the Belle Epoque.
I’ve always been physical. I loved sports growing up. I was never specifically a dancer or anything like that.
I got no business going to a club. I’m a terrible dancer. I got a bad back.
I came from the musical stage. My first show was ‘110 In The Shade.’ I started as a ballet dancer and then sort of gravitated toward musical theater, so any time I got asked to sing or dance, it was a joy for me.
I was on a path. I was going to become a principal dancer. I never let my mind rest.
I was a lifeguard, camp counselor, the president of the YMCA Leaders Corps. I also took piano lessons. I was a dancer.
I grew up watching ‘Disco Dancer’. I watched it some 20 times as a kid.
A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
Well, I was sort of a jack-of-all-trades in show business for a long time. I was a singer and a dancer and then I got a job as an actor.
I was in my last year in high school when I began to think of becoming a dancer. I had never seen a Broadway show; we never even read the theatrical reviews.
Martin Joyce is a beautiful dancer and an amazing choreographer. He choreographed the Mulberry dance film I was in, ‘From London with Love.’ A truly talented man.
As an ice dancer, we take our on-ice relationships so seriously, and that’s really the way we like to go about it.
No disrespect to any other god, but Shiva’s an outsider god. He breaks the rules. He’s a brilliant musician, a brilliant dancer; he treats his wife as an equal, and she opposes him many times, but he obsessively loves her.
I actually quit ballet when I was offered a job, an apprenticeship at North Carolina Dance Theater Company, run by John Pierre Bonnefoux and Patricia McBride, who are my idols. Everything sort of went perfectly. I was 16, and I was about to drop out of high school and become a professional ballet dancer.
I was a ballet dancer growing up and that’s what I was convinced I would be.
If a ballet dancer falls over, it’s knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts.
I’m definitely influenced by the music. We dance to music, and you have to listen to it and phrase your dancing and movement in a certain way to compliment the music. We have to work hand in hand, the dancer and the music.
On the videos for ‘1234’ and ‘My Moon My Man’ I wanted to make the songs visible. And, really, what way can you make sound visible other than good old naive dancing? I was working with a choreographer, but I’m not a dancer. Any notion of elegance is impossible with me.
There were talks about going into the jungle, ‘Strictly’ and ‘Big Brother’ – and I’m a good dancer so I’d smash ‘Strictly.’
If age someday grounds my feet and wilts my port de bras, what vestige of the old life will be left? The signs that I was a dancer will gradually fade like stripes on a beach towel. Even my knowledge of the art form, reaped in sweat over decades, could be lost over time.
I grew up idolising Madhuri Dixit, though I wasn’t a Hindi film buff. I had an academic upbringing, and movies were a rarity. I looked up to Madhuri because I loved dancing, and she’s a fantastic dancer.
The set of ‘You Got Served’ was like a dancer’s dream.
I always wanted to make a pop record. I’m a dancer myself, so I want to make something that people listen to and just want to dance to.
I’d always been a very focused dancer and very protected.
The comedian sticks as religiously to her theme as a dancer sticks to a diet.
I’ve got that personality where I’ve always been determined. As a dancer, I was constantly improving and perfecting. I guess it’s innate.
As a kid, I was a dancer in Dick Whittington, Snow White and Cinderella. When I was 14, I played Baby Bear. I had a big head on, and you couldn’t see my face. My mum was very disappointed.
I would have never dreamt in a million years I would go out with a ballroom dancer from Russia, as, when we were younger, we did not even speak the same language.
If I counted them all up, I was a dancer in sixty movies!
My dad was a third-generation printer and linotype operator, by all accounts a fabulous ballroom dancer. He was jettisoned from the family before I was 2, and I have never met him and have no memory of him.
My wife is a great dancer. But I don’t dance.
I realized I’m a very, very white dancer.
I don’t speak English, so I cannot foresee a career in Hollywood. But I do see myself more and more as an actress rather than a dancer.
An athletic man, or whatever you want to call him, will only look good in a very classic suit, a pair of classic jeans, athletic clothes or simply naked. Forget fashion. This is not going to happen, unless you want to look like a Chippendales dancer in designer clothes.
I know I’m never going to be a professional ballroom dancer.
I would never do ‘Dancing With The Stars,’ because it’s just not fair. I am too good of a dancer. It would be like LeBron James playing little league basketball.
I liked to read but, being a dancer, I didn’t have a lot of time to read.
I have enjoyed the films directed by Prabhu Deva and simply love his choreography. And he is the best dancer India has. I feel he knows what the audience wants, and that is why the films he has directed are hits.
I grew up always wanting to be a dancer, and when I went to New York, I fell in love with the idea of performing in all ways. I saw myself traveling with a company or making my own work and being a little weird. I wasn’t thinking about the business side of anything; I just knew that I loved dancing.
It is not easy for a dancer to be accepted as an actor. But I worked my way up through hard work and by God’s grace.
To me, I don’t feel like a dancer. I feel like an idiot trying to be a dancer.
I love composing songs for Hrithik because he is a talented dancer.
There’s this big rumor that I was a backup dancer when I was 11. Not true!
My current role model is Beyonce. She is such a strong woman. She can do everything. She has kept herself together and has balanced her life perfectly. She is a great singer, great dancer and a great looker and is now a good mother and wife.
Judy Garland was a different type of entertainer. She was a dancer, a singer, and an incurable romantic.
I do a lot of dance classes in my spare time. I’m a dancer at heart.
My dad is a director/producer and my mom is a dancer; she performed with Alvin Ailey, but I didn’t even think about becoming an actress.
Working with Michael Jackson was awesome. He was an incredible entertainer, dancer, singer, magician, everything, and he was really sweet, too.
Being an Orlando Magic dancer was definitely one of the most exciting times of my life. Being on the team was really like being in a sisterhood.
Everyone abroad knows me because of the songs ‘Jimmy Jimmy Aaja Aaja’ and ‘I Am A Disco Dancer,’ both from ‘Disco Dancer.’
When you start, you have no brain; you are a kid. It’s fine. But then I started to be scared. I was scared of judgment – not as a dancer, but as a person – and I was really uncomfortable with people. And it lasted for a very long time.
Whether it’s dance or action, what’s important is hand and body co-ordination. When you are a good dancer then automatically while performing action, the co-ordination is that much easier.
How can you live the high life if you do not wear high heels? I don’t understand why women wear these ballet pumps. They are only good if you walk like a ballet dancer, and only ballet dancers do that.
I like to learn from everyone I perform with. I have learnt a lot from Paritosh Tripathi, my co-anchor on ‘Super Dancer,’ and also my good friend Ravi Dubey.
That’s what all art’s about – a sense of moving away from boundaries that you can’t in real life. Like a dancer is always trying to fly, really – to do something that’s just not possible. But you try to do as much as you can within those physical boundaries.
I think ballet has influenced my personality a lot in the sense that I am very disciplined in all of my endeavours. I am always on time; I take things very seriously. I’ve built up my inner strength and self-esteem over time as I’ve improved as a dancer.
I prefer musicals, because I am the best dancer who ever lived. The best plies, the best sashays, and by far the best-smelling Capezios.
