Quotes by Dancers

In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhap-piness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?
Leslie Caron
The only way to enjoy anything in this life is to earn it first.
Ginger Rogers
The only thing that happens overnight is recognition. Not talent.
Carol Haney
I used to want the words "She tried" on my tombstone. Now I want "She did it."
Katherine Dunham
Misery is a communicable disease.
Martha Graham
You were once wild here. Don't let them tame you!
Isadora Duncan
If I could know me I could know the universe.
Shirley Maclaine
My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself afraid of what I think or of my opinions.
Eartha Kitt
You are unique and if that is not fulfilled then something has been lost.
Martha Graham
I'm in love with the potential of miracles. For me the safest place is out on a limb.
Shirley Maclaine
What one has not experienced one will never understand in print.
Isadora Duncan
The pain of leaving those you grow to love is only the prelude to understanding yourself and others.
Shirley Maclaine
If I had a party to attend and didn't want to be there I would play the part of someone who was having a lovely time.
Shirley Maclaine
They never raised a statue to a critic.
Martha Graham
My gift is that I'm not beautiful. My career was never about looks. It's about health and being in good shape.
Shirley Maclaine
The body never lies.
Martha Graham
The pain of leaving those you grow to love is only the prelude to understanding yourself and others.
Shirley Maclaine
If I had a party to attend and didn't want to be there I would play the part of someone who was having a lovely time.
Shirley Maclaine
They never raised a statue to a critic.
Martha Graham
My gift is that I'm not beautiful. My career was never about looks. It's about health and being in good shape.
Shirley Maclaine
The body never lies.
Martha Graham
I am not sending messages with my feet. All I ever wanted was not to come up empty. I did it for the dough and the old applause.
Fred Astaire
The body never lies.
Martha Graham
Living is a form of not being sure not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong but we take leap after leap in the dark.
Agnes De Mille
Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don't even look at one another. They are just a lot of isolated individuals jiggling in a kind of self-hypnosis and dancing with others only to remind themselves that we are not completely alone in this world.
Agnes De Mille
The finest inheritance you can give a child is to allow it to make its own way completely on its own feet.
Isadora Duncan
I could be whatever I wanted to be if I trusted that music that song that vibration of God that was inside of me.
Shirley Maclaine
My motto: sans limites.
Isadora Duncan
Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power.
Shirley Maclaine
The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
Shirley Maclaine
Fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
Shirley Maclaine
Living is a form of not being sure not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong but we take leap after leap in the dark.
Agnes De Mille
Maybe the tragedy of the human race was that we had forgotten that we are each divine.
Shirley Maclaine
No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.
Agnes De Mille
No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time. It is just that others are behind the time.
Martha Graham
Nothing should be permanent except struggle with the dark side within ourselves.
Shirley Maclaine
The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.
Fred Astaire
I realized that if what we call human nature can be changed then absolutely anything is possible. And from that moment my life changed.
Shirley Maclaine
Someday change will be accepted as life itself.
Shirley Maclaine
Old age is like everything else to make a success of it you got to start young.
Fred Astaire
Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.
Ted Shawn
The body says what words cannot.
Martha Graham
The trouble with nude dancing is that not everything stops when the music stops.
Sir Robert Helpmann
The end is never worth the beginning.
Vali Myers
And that's what innocence is. It's simple and trusting like a child, not judgmental and committed to one narrow point of view. If you are locked into a pattern of thinking and responding, your creativity gets blocked. You miss the freshness and magic of the moment. Learn to be innocent again, and that freshness never fades.
Michael Jackson
I am so much happier when I am doing the things that make me me, and that's living by my standards and doing the things I love, using my talents, however random they are, to share with other people. That's what makes me happy.
Lindsey Stirling
At the time I started in ballet they were dancing 'The Spirit of Champagne' on pointe, in Paris. I thought, 'I don't want to dance the spirit of champagne, I want to drink it!
Martha Graham
I want to dance always, to be good and not evil, and when it is all over not to have the feeling that I might have done better.
Ruth St. Denis
The bigger the star, the bigger the target.
Michael Jackson
Even the littlest things were now a challenge, one I didn't understand.
Sarah Todd Hammer
Without passion, all the skill in world won't lift you above your craft
Twyla Tharp
We're all rejected people, we know what it is to be refused, we know what it is to be oppressed, depressed, and then, accused, and I am very much cognizant of that feeling. Nothing in the world is more painful than rejection. I am a rejected, oppressed person, and so I understand them, as best as I can, even though I am a heterosexual.
Eartha Kitt
I was not extremely patriotic about Mother Russia. I played their game, pretending. You have to deal with, you know, party people, KGB. Horrifying.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Fundamentals are the building blocks of fun.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
We all need something to do, someone to love, and something to hope for.
Dick Van Dyke
I ain’t afraid to drown if that means I’m deep up in your ocean.
Chris Brown
My attitude is if fashion says it's forbidden, I'm going to do it.
Michael Jackson
Whenever I saw a sunset, I would quietly make my secret wish right before the sun tucked under the western horizon and disappeared. It would seem as if the sun had taken my wish with it. I'd make it right before the last speck of light vanished.
Michael Jackson
I was scared...and did not know what was coming for me next.
Sarah Todd Hammer
I was eight years old and scared, and had no idea what was going on
Sarah Todd Hammer