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"I always call Billy Elliot a fantasy autobiography because I never wanted to be a dancer, but I got a lot of stick from the other kids about wanting to be a writer and being interested in drama."
"My mother was a dancer, so I like to use the body as part of the instrument of acting."
"Venerable are letters, infinitely brave, forlorn, and lost. Life would split asunder without them. 'Come to tea, come to dinner, what's the truth of the story? have you heard the news? life in the capital is wonderful; the Russian dancers....' These are our stays and props. These lace our days together and make of life a perfect globe."
"I don't try to tell the dancers exactly what a dance means before they do it."
"Every concert pianist knows that the surest way to ruin a performance is to be aware of what the fingers are doing. Every dancer and acrobat knows enough to let the mind go, let the body run itself. Every driver of a manual vehicle arrives at destinations with no recollection of the stops and turns and roads traveled in getting there. You are all sleepwalkers, whether climbing creative peaks or slogging through some mundane routine for the thousandth time. You are all sleepwalkers."
"In my heart, my first desire was to be a dancer. I always wanted to dance and I danced from the time I was 7 till I was well into my 30s."
"I was a tap dancer as a child, so I understand precision and repetition."
"All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer."
"At our most primitive we are storytellers and dancers."
"Someone is dead. Even the trees know it, those poor old dancers who come on lewdly, all pea-green scarfs and spine pole."
"They call them performance artists, but they shouldn't be making an album. They should just be dancers. I don't know, I'm a musical snob. I feel like if you're going to record music and you're going to be a singer, you have to be able to sing."
"You ask what I have found and far and wide I go, Nothing but Cromwell's house and Cromwell's murderous crew, The lovers and the dancers are beaten into the clay, And the tall men and the swordsmen and the horsemen where are they?"
"I have trod a measure, I have flattered a lady, I have been politic with my friend, smooth with mine enemy."
"Say, what abridgement have you for this evening? What masque, what music? How shall we beguile The lazy time if not with some delight?"
"My personal trainer is an ex-dancer so we do a lot of ballet and jazz."
"I heard a lot in school, 'You've got a really great talent, but there's no way you're going to be a dancer with that body."
"I really wanted to make it as a ballet dancer to make my mom proud. But it didnt happen."
"I wouldn't say that I am one of the greatest dancers, but I am really quite good at what I do."
"I know I'm not the greatest singer or dancer, but that doesn't interest me, I'm interested in being provocative and pushing people's buttons."
"If you just work on your upper body, you're not going to be a full-range dancer or performer. You've got to work in all directions as much as you possibly can."
