Best Dancers Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“Dancers do not progress to become leading ladies. We become well-respected ensemblists. When I left 'Hamilton,' I realized that if I wanted to be taken seriously, I had to go in and sing just as well as the singers who move - and not only that, I needed to try to be better than them because I'm a woman of color.”

“I like dancers who demand of themselves to achieve, not just technically but also as performers.”

“I've always worked very hard. I think dancers always do.”

“It's kind of become a journey about the dancers, but dancers are the reason why this show is so successful. They are the choreographers, they are the teachers and if not for their hard work, there would be no 'Dancing With the Stars.'”

“When I worked with David LaChappelle, I was stimulated... He was explaining how he does things, how he works. I realized what an artist is, so I thought that's what dancers should experience.”

“It's exciting for me as a male to see other guys wanting to be ice dancers.”

“I'm really good at improvising on stage, so if I'd forget a step, I'll just make up something. And the rest of the dancers would be like... what is she doing!? It always looked like they have forgotten the step, so I got away with it!”

“I've had a lot of little girls write to me saying that they want to be dancers and that I've inspired them.”

“I have two sisters and neither one of them are dancers.”

“The general impression about fat people is that they are romantic, funny and good dancers.”

“Duffy is go hard or go home. It's just a concept that I wanted to have when we're doing different things. When me and my dancers go in, we usually go hard or we go home. We're not here to play. We go duffy.”

“I got extremely fit and slim on 'Strictly,' but I did find that, each week, a different part of my body hurt. It really makes you realise the hard work dancers have to put in and how fit they have to be.”

“When I was 11, I was riding in the car with my mother. We were in the middle of a dance workshop, and on the ride home, I said, 'Mom, you know, people are just really beautiful. Just like look at all those beautiful dancers. I think I could like a girl. I could date girls.' She was like, 'Oh, that's cool.'”

“I feel the way India has loved and supported dancers is incredible.”

“Even in the early stages of my career I've had to dance with principal dancers. I could have easily freaked out and got nervous, but I think that helped when it came to trying to forget I was doing a scene with Judi Dench.”

“I'm not a musician, I can't read music, but I came from a family of music fans. Not mad music fans, but people who like music. Both of my parents can play the piano. They were very good dancers, which I am not.”

“How many dancers in their life get a job that will last 15 years? Not many.”

“For the 'Heaven' stage, the dancers and I don't use wires so we are slowly slipping down the stage if you see us up close.”

“Dancers are trained to be disciplined to do what they are told, but I knew that time goes by, and I didn't want to make the mistakes of the others.”

“I have a picture of all of us going to a club with my friends from 'Soul Train.' All the girls just going out to a nightclub, and we're all dressed like we were dressed on 'Soul Train.' It was the most surreal experience for me because I walk into the club with them, and people started screaming. 'Oh my God! It's the 'Soul Train' dancers.'”

“Me being an artist working with dancers and seeing how hard they work, they are the first to show up and the last to leave. They work just as hard, if not harder, than me - and they never get credit for it.”

“Usually, when we're performing 'What About Your Friends' or 'Waterfalls' comes on, they all know the dance. It's like a sea of TLC dancers in the audience! It's so beautiful to see. I just love it so much.”

“I know that a large part of my fan base is gay. They've shown me love from the start. I mean in this industry, everyone from my glam people to my dancers are gay. You can't be homophobic in this line of work - I'm a pop star!”

“I was one of those dancers who they say wants to feel the floor through their pointe shoes. I would end up not wearing toe pads and that stuff. I would just wrap minimal amounts of paper towels around my toes.”

“I have a lot of relatives that were dancers and musicians and artists. They basically came out of the womb doing it.”

“Dancehall has always had a homophobic problem, but you go to dance parties in Jamaica, and some of the biggest dancers are kinda gay, just not outspoken about it. Dancehall was the first kind of music I was DJing, and it was always more about the rhythm.”

“I don't ever use dancers, and when I do, it's literally, like, four break dancers.”

“Do I watch dancers as people? Yes, absolutely. Do I watch really good dancers for specifically who they are? Absolutely, because how they move best and how they look best is going to be most familiar to them, and not necessarily to me.”

“For me rappers and dancers are poets and artists and often times the most interesting performances are given by them.”

“I very much like dance and dancers.”

“Every act I see, their whole act is choreographed. I'm sick of seeing these dancers. The only reason they have them is they don't have enough talent to get people dancing themselves.”

“There are always younger and better dancers fighting to get your place. You get worn down by the fight to try to stay at the top.”

“I really have a new-found respect for dancers.”

“I love to have a band, but dancers are my priority because I really want a show, you know?”

“I like dancers. I have a thing for girls who dance.”

“I look for dancers who have all the technique in the world. But they must be dancers who are open-minded, who are willing to forget that they know anything. They also have to be gorgeous; they must have a clear image of themselves and strong personalities.”

“Listen - I like musicals. Even when they're bad, there's a couple of dancers I can watch.”

“I would love to do a live show with dancers and fashion and scenic elements - definitely bring my love of the theater to a concert-style performance.”

“When I dance, I love the romance and sexiness of it, and love having it be clear to both dancers that the man leads! But the man has to know what he's doing!”

“There's a line of dancers waiting to get into Sydney Dance Company.”

“I actually build my dreams around the dancers I've got in my company.”

“When I first moved to New York, I was friends with a lot of dancers - people from Merce Cunningham's company and things like that.”

“Most dancers have a young body. This is part discipline and part desire, because just sitting around makes one feel sluggish.”

“I love the dancers in the Bolshoi, but all of my Moscow friends are outside the company. A friend introduced me to Vika Gazinskaya, a well-known Russian designer. I met her group. The rest is history.”

“Ideally if I settled down with a wife I would love to form my own troupe of mini dancers!”

“I like to express myself inside of the work that is given, and I let the dancers do the same.”

“You've got your Justins who have all the back flipping dancers and stuff, and then you've got Lemar, and he totally moves you without having to do all of that, and he's gorgeous.”

“There are dancers who put themselves on strict diets, but I'm not one of them.”

“I want young black girls to have more dancers to look up to. I want to be able to spread more poppies in a field of daffodils.”

“Dancers are stripped enough onstage. You don't have to know more about them than they've given you already.”

“I've been around dancers a lot in my career, working on the fringes as an observer, but actually being part of it is heaven.”

“There are more real dancers now. It used to be that they would dub in the taps and obscure the lack of technique with long camera shots.”

“I dug up my dad's old Fred Astaire tapes, and now I find him super-inspiring. He's, like, one of the best dancers.”

“The great thing about being the son of Maya Angelou is that I had the good fortune to grow up around some of the greatest black artists, dancers, singers, musicians, and actors of our time.”

“I always want to have more dancers in my company.”

“Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.”

“Item song dancers like Silk Smitha and Jayamalini have become irrelevant. The heroines are doing those dances themselves.”

“As you get older, the physical abilities decrease, which is particularly frustrating because your brain gets so good! So as you are becoming less technically or physically able, younger dancers are emerging who need the space to perform.”

“I see myself helping the next generation of dancers who come along, helping them to keep the dance focused, so we don't get into a position where they're saying in 2050, or whatever, that around 2001 or 2002 or something the dance died.”

“I love the noise of my wooden clogs on my wooden floor. Dancers wear clogs. They're good for you.”

“I knew what my scripts would say before I opened them: 'Enter Conchita.' I played handmaidens, Indian squaws, and Mexican dancers.”

“When I'm getting ready for a tour, I'll work out with the dancers.”

“I sew my own shoes. Other male dancers don't, but I like it one way, and I've learned to do it that way.”

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

“I'm very close to a lot of people from my time in the band, like our hair and make-up people and the dancers, but you gravitate towards the people that you have stuff in common with.”

“I'm pretty gutsy. Dancers don't think about things; they just do them.”

“I started salsa dancing with a few different companies and started touring the country. It was fantastic, but I realized that I really wanted to talk every time we were performing. That's a problem because when you're dancing, if you stop to talk, that's not really cool to the other dancers.”

“Shashi Kapoor and Amitabh Bachchan were good dancers.”

“I realize that dancers have worked long and hard for standards. However, on occasion, I think that it's good to examine one's heart and ask why are we dancing.”

“I don't date dancers, but I've always wanted to teach guys how to dance.”

“Actors are born, good actors are trained. Dancers are born, good dancers are trained.”

“I look at the dancers and I get the inspiration for the work from them.”

“When you find real jazz on the radio dial, it comes in all static-y. It's just like tap dancers. You have to go uptown to find the real hoofers. We only come to midtown if we're called upon.”

“Modern dancers should be doing things no one else is doing, and it should come from the gut.”

“I do drag. Just because my drag is not the drag of Creme Fatale or Holy McGrail doesn't mean it's less drag. I perform live; I just sing with dancers. It's drag on a different level.”

“I wouldn't say that I am one of the greatest dancers, but I am really quite good at what I do.”

“Show dancing stood very well on its own a long time ago with dancers like Bill Robinson and Marilyn Miller.”

“I think it's always great to not be the smartest person in the room because I don't want to ever feel like I can't improve upon what I'm doing. I just want to surround myself with people that are better actors than me and better singers and dancers and see what happens.”

“At Sarah Lawrence, I realized that everybody was already what they were going to be. The painters were painting, the writers writing, the dancers dancing. And nobody wore any makeup. The art was uppermost.”

“I haven't had a family, but I don't think of that as a sacrifice: my dancers are my family.”

“I'm in show business, and we have a long history here of making movies about law enforcement officers. If you're my age, and you're male, and you're trying to get work, you're going to run into those roles as opposed to having a long run of playing dancers.”

“In the UK and the US especially you've got a lot of throwaway artists who have their 40 million dancers and they do their show. There's many artists who would not do a live show because they know they can't.”

“I guess it's hard work... whatever the decision is, how to show it to people that aren't necessarily dancers, how to get people to think about more than themselves.”

“Because muscle is heavier than fat, dancers weigh more than you might think, but they are usually very lean.”

“The Paddy Stone dancers were all upwards of 5ft 6in and stunningly beautiful. I was stocky, tough-looking and 5ft 3in. So I became determined to create my own troupe.”

“Most dancers are very quiet.”

“It's expensive to get studio space and dancers. My whole first three years, I was sneaking around in the studios and getting kicked out of them. It was kind of depressing.”

“Working improvisationally in my studio with dancers, it's completely different. We don't have any starting point; we don't have an end point. We don't have anything we are trying to show or do. The picture evolves from nowhere.”

“At intervals between the songs, more especially after the trances have begun, the dancers unclasp hands and sit down to smoke or talk for a few minutes.”

“Usually I perform with dancers.”

“Like most dancers, I love lip stains! We hate gloss because hair gets stuck in it.”

“On a TV show, for instance, dancers have to be paid for a week and a half rehearsal time. So unless they're vital to a production, they're just not used.”

“Don't get me wrong: I love a massive show with dancers and the works, and I love Zumba! But I just want there to be more people who just sing.”

“Hamp would ask me about tempos in the band: 'Jacquet,' he'd say, 'knock off that tempo.' A lot of jazz musicians didn't prefer to play for dancers, which was their loss, really. But good jazz has always had that dance feel.”

“Same with anyone who's been flying for years and loves it still... we're part of a world we deeply love. Just as musicians feel about scores and melodies, dancers about the steps and flow of music, so we're one with the principle of flight, the magic of being aloft in the wind!”

“I love writing for dancers. You don't have to worry about the lyrics. I think to write words without music must be so frustrating. It must be always be so good, so perfect.”

“I'm really grateful for my dancers' discipline.”