38 Quotes About Dancers

If I ever have any back-up dancers, I want the penguins from Madagascar.

Is the prisoner a prisoner because he lives in a cage or because he knows that he lives in a cage?

Time is a dream - or a nightmare - from which there is never any waking. We who travel in Time are dreamers who occasionally share a common experience.

We would all be better off dead, useless eaters of the lotus that we are.

We are all amateur dancers; the professional dancer is the Earth, the Sun, and all the planets! They have been dancing nonstop for billions of years!

Young dancers are training at a very vulnerable time in their lives, through adolescence, and while they are trying to work out who they are as people, never mind as a dancer. So train the whole person, not just the dancer.

There are dancers and painters and writers who pursued that whether or not they are paid for it. There are a lot of technologists who are the same.

But that's why I had to. I couldn't finish anything, or communicate, or make decisions about what the dancers should do. I was at a very isolated place in my mind. I was always incredibly obsessive about my work, and I don't know how much I made that more extreme by drug use. But I'm glad not to be that person now.

We estimate that most professional dancers and students on a professional track probably do over 2 million little jumps a year. That's a lot of wear and tear.