Dance Quotes

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.

For the amount of talent I had - and I couldn't dance, act, or tell a joke - I enjoyed a tremendous career.

I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words.

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

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.

I think hip hop is a dance music that's rebellious by nature.

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

I don't care if Margot is a Dame of the British Empire or older than myself. For me she represents eternal youth; there is an absolute musical quality in her beautiful body and phrasing. Because we are sincere and gifted, an intense abstract love is born between us every time we dance together.

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

We were doing the dance routine and I dislocated my knee. I've been doing stunts for a long time and it's kind of weird that I'd dislocate my knee just dancing.

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

I was inspired by a lot of people when I was young. Every band that came through town, to the theater, or the dance hall. I was at every dance, every night club, listened to every band that came through, because in those days we didn't have MTV, we didn't have television.

Dance music is Madonna's base. It's what she likes, it's what she listens to. It's not anything other than that. She doesn't read what's on the charts. And if it's on time, great. This is who she is.

My American gay audience have continued to dance and sing to the music I make in a way that straight Americans haven't. I am grateful to them for that.

I never danced a step in my life so naturally. My first motion picture was a musical, and Bob Fosse was the choreographer. I didn't exactly dance for Fosse, I just did the best that I could to do what he taught us to do.

Dance must have a precision without fault.

At the time I just was like, I can't believe I am on the show, and the first thing I have to do is an entire song and dance routine for the whole cast of 'Mad Men.'

Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.

I mean whatever I do it's important that I put my stamp on it and keep it in my world, whether I'm doing a dance track or something like the Russian album for example.

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

I dance because it makes me want to explode.

People come to see beauty, and I dance to give it to them.

I just wanted to perform, to sing, dance and act.

We're going through a kind of ancient, barbaric war dance now - it's almost an ultimate in absurdity.

There are a lot of farmers and ranchers who are struggling. I get on my knees every day. If I had a rain prayer or a rain dance I could do, I would do it.

The reason that you dance and sing is to make the audience feel like they're dancing and singing. As long as you're having fun with it and giving it 100 percent, they're gonna feel that.

Joyce for all his devotion to his art, terrible in its austerity, was a lad born with a song on one side of him, a dance on the other; two gay guardian angels every human ought to have.

I don't tap dance, and I don't think you can learn to tap dance in three weeks at my ripe old age.

My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.

I'm not one who divides music, dance or art into various categories. Either something works, or it doesn't.