Quotes on Dance

I can't wait to be back on the dance floor. I feel really good about it.

Author: Paula Abdul

My first vocation was dance.

Author: Victoria Abril

I went to dance classes from 9 in the morning until 1, then to school from 3 to 10 at night, always under the threat that if I failed a single course I could forget about dancing.

Author: Victoria Abril

If you live in the elite world of dance, you find yourself in a world rife with racism. Let's face it.

Author: Alvin Ailey

Until quite recently dance in America was the ragged Cinderella of the arts.

Author: Shana Alexander

The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.

Author: Muhammad Ali

I use something that is a real staple in the directing world. It's called a dance floor. You lay it down so that it's so smooth you can roll around, and you can put furniture on top of it. It's seamless and you don't see it.

Author: Debbie Allen

In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.

Author: Namie Amuro

From my debut until now, I've always wanted to sing and dance.

Author: Namie Amuro

I'll dance to anything: Bob Marley or rap.

Author: Francesca Annis

I have no desire to prove anything by dancing. I have never used it as an outlet or a means of expressing myself. I just dance. I just put my feet in the air and move them around.

Author: Fred Astaire

I started taking ballet lessons when I was three and a half and I still take dance classes.

Author: Oksana Baiul

Actually I dance really well on the floor.

Author: Oksana Baiul

In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms.

Author: George Balanchine

One of the few things in dance to match the Royal Ballet's curtain calls is the Royal Ballet's dancing.

Author: Clive Barnes

Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.

Author: Dave Barry

I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography.

Author: Mikhail Baryshnikov

It's weird when you see pieces of choreography that were done for you 15 or 20 years ago and now they are being done by another dance company.

Author: Mikhail Baryshnikov

There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.

Author: Warren Bennis

There are those who dance to the rhythm that is played to them, those who only dance to their own rhythm, and those who don't dance at all.

Author: Jose Bergamin

We were at our best when we were playing in the dance halls of Liverpool and Hamburg. The world never saw that.

Author: Pete Best

I was the lead in two musicals, and I took dance classes.

Author: Corbin Bleu

I think I can beat Usher on the dance floor.

Author: Chris Brown

Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.

Author: H. Brown, Jr.

No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.

Author: Jackson Browne

Dance every performance as if it were your last.

Author: Erik Bruhn

For me, it's like biking around the neighborhood, the walks and stuff, because I have never enjoyed the gym. Or I'll do, since I used to dance a lot, all the old dance exercises.

Author: Delta Burke

You're being cast for your acting ability. It's not based on the way your body functions. If you're playing a lead in a movie, it's for that character and they'll tailor it to you. In a dance company, you have to fit in a definite mold.

Author: Neve Campbell

Dance is very, very old. With Louis XIV at Versailles is where ballet started.

Author: Neve Campbell

Dance is certainly a sport, and they are phenomenal athletes, and they're also artists.

Author: Neve Campbell

There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation; and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration.

Author: Lewis Carroll

What a joy it is to dance and sing!

Author: Angela Carter

No sane man will dance.

Author: Marcus Cicero

Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.

Author: Confucius

On Saturday afternoons, there was a film, of course, and then we did about four shows between the films. And I would do a tap dance, a little military tap.

Author: Barbara Cook

I wanted to be Gene Kelly. Well really, I just wanted to dance with Cyd Charisse.

Author: Robin Cousins

Ice dance should not be seen as a rigid conformist form of figure skating. There is a great deal of freedom and originality to be had.

Author: Robin Cousins

I think differently, I think it's about reaching everybody on every different plane and every different level, and if I could remix the song and do a dance remix, that's great. If I could do a classical version, that'll be great too. It's all just about expression.

Author: Deborah Cox

I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.

Author: e. cummings

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

Author: e. cummings

My dance classes were open to anybody, my only stipulation was that they had to come to the class every day.

Author: Merce Cunningham

If you're looking for a deep album or you're looking for me to talk about past situations, it's not even about that. It's just 14 hot records that are gonna make you dance.

Author: Puff Daddy

If I talk about Charles Dance I am talking about something else, something I operate and wind up and have to make an impression with and use to transmit someone else's screenplay.

Author: Charles Dance

The dance world is too small in lots of ways - it's too intense, it rattles around itself, and it needs exposing to other ideas.

Author: Siobhan Davies

On the other hand in London you can get an audience that desires dance to go as far as it can go: they've seen the bricks of ideas built over a period so therefore there is an acceptance of what otherwise might seem out on a limb.

Author: Siobhan Davies

Remembering that man is indeed the microcosm, the universe in miniature, the Divine Dance of the future should be able to convey with its slightest gestures some significance of the universe.

Author: Ruth Denis

It is not a question of who dances but of who or what does not dance.

Author: Ruth Denis

I keep all my clothes on in House on Haunted Hill, Mary Jane's Last Dance, and The Way of the Gun.

Author: Taye Diggs

Like I went out to a predominantly black club last night and nobody said anything and I was wishing somebody would so that someone would dance with me.

Author: Taye Diggs

I was taken to one place by a director, and he bought me a lap dance.

Author: Lexa Doig

Dance must have a precision without fault.

Author: Arielle Dombasle

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.

Author: Wayne Dyer

I was performing in this burlesque group, and we would go to dance rehearsals every day. You'd use every part of your body. Even though some of it is slow, it takes a lot of muscle to be able to dip down and come back up.

Author: Carmen Electra

So, it becomes an exercise in futility if you write something that does not express the film as the director wishes. It's still their ball game. It's their show. I think any successful composer learns how to dance around the director's impulses.

Author: Danny Elfman

You remember that my great vision came to me when I was only nine years old, and you have seen that I was not much good for anything until after I had performed the horse dance near the mouth of the Tongue River during my eighteenth summer.

Author: Black Elk

After the horse dance was over, it seemed that I was above the ground and did not touch it when I walked.

Author: Black Elk

I came out of the womb born to sing and dance. I have to follow my heart.

Author: Jennifer Ellison

I dance because it makes me want to explode.

Author: Bill Evans

I would rather be having a burger and beers with my mates but I can't do that when I know I've got to dance.

Author: Michael Flatley

When I was in school, I was very involved with a lot of things. I was very very active. I couldn't say that I wasn't popular. I was a cheerleader when I was in junior high. I didn't make it in high school so I started a dance line.

Author: Faith Ford

Get up and dance, get up and smile, get up and drink to the days that are gone in the shortest while.

Author: Simon Fowler

The pleasant surprise for me is that when I look into Tony's eyes, he's still 100% present, sharing everything that's going on. Acting with him is like a beautiful dance.

Author: Genie Francis

When the circumstances are right, everything becomes a dance.

Author: Lynette Fromme

We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.

Author: Robert Frost

We're the only dance in town. We don't compete with any professional teams for the entertainment dollar.

Author: Hayden Fry

I refuse to dance. And I can't dance anyway. I'm not in a band for that.

Author: Liam Gallagher

I also tried to avoid doing obvious dance records.

Author: Boy George

They're not particular about whether you're playing a flatted fifth or a ruptured 129th as long as they can dance to it.

Author: Dizzy Gillespie

If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution.

Author: Emma Goldman

I'm a song and dance girl. I can act enough to get by. But that's the limit of my talents.

Author: Betty Grable

Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.

Author: Martha Graham

Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance is a celebration of that miracle.

Author: Martha Graham

The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.

Author: Mata Hari

I was asked to act when I couldn't act. I was asked to sing 'Funny Face' when I couldn't sing, and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn't dance - and do all kinds of things I wasn't prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it.

Author: Audrey Hepburn

I do eventually want to get back into performing, but right now it's more fun for me to dance for myself.

Author: Dule Hill

I don't remember not dancing. When I realized I was alive and these were my parents, and I could walk and talk, I could dance.

Author: Gregory Hines

When I got a lap dance, because I was 17, they had to put a massive pillow between me and the girl when she was grinding me. It was weird, yet pleasurable.

Author: Emile Hirsch

Well, number one I like dancing. Number two I knew it would be challenging because I had never done this type of dance before. I always wanted to and I happened to have the courage to go out there and give it my best shot.

Author: Evander Holyfield

I grew up with six brothers. That's how I learned to dance - waiting for the bathroom.

Author: Bob Hope

The Lord doesn't like us to be dead. Be alive. Sometimes I dance to the glory of the Lord, because He said so.

Author: Mahalia Jackson

They said that Etta James is still vulgar. I said, Oh, how dare them say I'm still vulgar. I'm vulgar because I dance in the chair. What would they want me to do? Want me to just be still or something like that? I've got to do something.

Author: Etta James

Dance is bigger than the physical body. When you extend your arm, it doesn't stop at the end of your fingers, because you're dancing bigger than that; you're dancing spirit.

Author: Judith Jamison

Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.

Author: Erica Jong

Who is Mike Judge? Let me think. The only way I could possibly answer that question would be in a nonverbal fashion. I think I could do an interpretive dance that would answer that question for you.

Author: Mike Judge

I'd studied dance in Chicago every summer end taught it all winter, and I was well-rounded. I wasn't worried about getting a job on Broadway. In fact, I got one the first week.

Author: Gene Kelly

I feel that the year ahead for me will be full of two of my favorite things: dance and acting.

Author: William Kempe

I think it's a lot harder for the pros to have a long career in ice dance and in pairs. It seems the singles have a little bit of a longer career.

Author: Nancy Kerrigan

I used to dance when I was younger - ballet and modern dance.

Author: Nastassja Kinski

I am dumb when it comes to learning dance steps.

Author: Mia Kirshner

In liberal democracy and anxious anarchy, the traditional classic dance, compact of aristocratic authority and absolute freedom in a necessity of order, has never been so promising as an independent expression as it is today.

Author: Lincoln Kirstein

I used to teach dance lessons.

Author: Eartha Kitt

I had never picked up a basketball before. I went through a grueling audition process. It was almost as if I was learning to walk. It would be like teaching somebody to dance ballet for a role.

Author: Sanaa Lathan

I have never had a lap dance in Tampa or any other part of Florida. If I ever did have a lap dance, I don't think I would be discussing television ideas with the girl that was giving it to me.

Author: Stan Lee

I cannot sing, dance or act; what else would I be but a talk show host.

Author: David Letterman

I hope Britney doesn't get bummed out that Lindsey is a better singer. It is not Lindsey saying it, it's me. Lindsey would never say that. She's an actress first. It's just a bonus that she can dance and sing.

Author: Virginia Madsen

Tough guys don't dance. You had better believe it.

Author: Norman Mailer

I collaborated on most of my dance numbers, literally 50/50, with the choreographers I worked with.

Author: Jessie Matthews

It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.

Author: Amanda McBroom

I like to dance, but it's not my weekend activity. I'm not a clubber.

Author: Ewan McGregor

I very much like dance and dancers.

Author: Issey Miyake

I have worked with several dance companies.

Author: Issey Miyake

Among the southern tribes, on the contrary, hats were sometimes worn in the dance, although this was not considered in strict accordance with the doctrine.

Author: James Mooney

When all is ready, the leaders walk out to the dance place.

Author: James Mooney

I think I can take responsibility for that in that I was the audience. I was the voice of sanity around whom all these crazies did their dance. And I reacted in the same way that a member of the audience would have reacted.

Author: Mary Moore

Now, the instrumentation in the jazz band and the jazz dance band has gone through many evolutions. For instance, in the 'twenties the tradition was two or three saxophones.

Author: Gerry Mulligan

Dance is so joyous.

Author: Graeme Murphy

And dance is wonderful because dance is so immediate.

Author: Graeme Murphy

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

Author: Graeme Murphy

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

It takes a lot of guts to get up on top of a bar and dance.

Author: Piper Perabo

Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.

Author: Alexander Pope

The mob is a sort of bear; while your ring is through its nose, it will even dance under your cudgel; but should the ring slip, and you lose your hold, the brute will turn and rend you.

Author: Jane Porter

Are the Democrats going to dance the mandate Macarena?

Author: Dan Rather

Basically it starts with four months of training, just basic stretching, kicking and punching. Then you come to the choreography and getting ready to put the dance together.

Author: Keanu Reeves

I will always dance in the street.

Author: Martha Reeves

I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.

Author: Arthur Rimbaud

Who's judging American Idol? Paula Abdul? Paula Abdul judging a singing contest is like Christopher Reeve judging a dance contest!

Author: Chris Rock

I was out dancing with one actress or another. And that got press. Even when it didn't, the whole town knew I was a dancing fool, and since I couldn't very well dance with a man, they saw me dancing with a lady, and they assumed the rest.

Author: Cesar Romero

For yesterday and for all tomorrows, we dance the best we know.

Author: Kate Seredy

Denis Law could dance on eggshells.

Author: Bill Shankly

If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.

Author: George Shaw

I believe that dance communicates man's deepest, highest and most truly spiritual thoughts and emotions far better than words, spoken or written.

Author: Ted Shawn

They're making a song and dance because that serves their immediate interests. But what will happen tomorrow? They will have to pay salaries and pensions.

Author: Eduard Shevardnadze

My grandmother had a Miss Margaret's School of Dance to teach tap and ballet to kids, but I never studied it. I was raised a Mormon and they're dancing fools. It's the only vice they have - dancing.

Author: Michelle Shocked

We got on American Bandstand, where kids would dance to a record and then rate it. We called ourselves Tom and Jerry. I was Jerry.

Author: Paul Simon

It's always been my dream to do a dance scene with Anthony Hopkins.

Author: Gary Sinise

Sometimes, when I'm alone, I put on six inch heels and wear nothing else and dance around in front of the mirror and do my little stripper dance.

Author: Tori Spelling

Now on the other hand, if someone is selling a product, opening a dance studio, or has some other aim to help themselves, then I tend to look askance at some of these strange stories from outer space.

Author: Robert Stack

I wasn't out drinking and abusing my body. I simply loved to go out and dance.

Author: Willie Stargell

On the other hand, now that I'm not dependent on fiction for my income, I've been writing more short stories despite the fact that there's no real paying market for short horror other than Cemetery Dance.

Author: George Stephen

I took several years of dance lessons that included ballet, tap and jazz. They helped a great deal with body control, balance, a sense of rhythm, and timing.

Author: Lynn Swann

There's just something about dance. It's like a primal thing in all of us.

Author: Patrick Swayze

The monarchy is finished. It was finished a while ago, but they're still making the corpses dance.

Author: Sue Townsend

I have ballet class every other day for two hours. And for "Six Feet Under", last week there was a sequence where I had to do a whole choreographed dance number, so I had four hours of dance practice every day.

Author: Michelle Trachtenberg

Exactly the same with dancing, you can't dance until you've learnt steps, the things your feet can do.

Author: Ninette Valois

And then you have the classical ballerinas, they're like sopranos. Applied to the dance.

Author: Ninette Valois

Also, if you have an accident, you can't start to dance again at the top, you're too weak; you start with the easy things - the way you did them when you were young, and come up up up, the way you did then.

Author: Ninette Valois

I loved the atmosphere of the dance studios - the wooden floors, the big mirrors, everyone dressed in pink or black tights, the musicians accompanying us - and the feeling of ritual the classes had.

Author: Suzanne Vega

I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.

Author: Patricia Velasquez

Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.

Author: Voltaire

Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?

Author: Alice Walker

I'm working on a screenplay right now for the BBC, but I hope to have the decks cleared soon so I can get into the studio with my pals and put down some more tracks, try to get a strong dance single together.

Author: Irvine Welsh

How I long to fall just a little bit, to dance out of the lines and stray from the light.

Author: Dar Williams

I had to do a tango with Raft and I learned to dance in ballet shoes with my knees bent.

Author: Marie Windsor

It comes from the likes of you! Take what you can get! Grab the chances as they come along! Act in hallways! Sing in doorways! Dance in cellars!

Author: Alexander Woollcott

Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!

Author: William Yeats

How can we know the dancer from the dance?

Author: William Yeats

When I'm not at the keyboard, I'm generally reading, practicing tai chi or middle eastern dance, or cooking.

Author: Sarah Zettel

It's not that I wanted to be an actor; it's that I didn't want to be a dancer! I was trained in traditional Chinese dance, and after working so hard it seemed unfair to just disappear into a group.

Author: Ziyi Zhang

My parents sent me to a dance class, so it was a road chosen by them, not me. But I enjoyed it so much I knew I would become a performer.

Author: Ziyi Zhang