Dance Quotes

I was not naturally talented. I didn't sing, dance or act, though working around that minor detail made me inventive.

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

In theater and dance, I was trying to win someone's approval, trying to get in, trying to be good. It felt out of my control, whereas music suddenly felt like this free expression. It was fun.

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!

We have no physical model of this endless rhythm of individuation and involvement, we do have its image in the world of art, most purely in dance.

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.

The dance that happens, between actor and director, is a very delicate thing...it's why people tend to work together on many films over and over.

At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is.

Those who manage change in modern organizations need to learn to dance, to become healers capable of releasing collective energy to heal the wounds of change.

Kind are her answers, But her performance keeps no day; Breaks time, as dancers. From their own Music when they stray.

What may we expect of people who work all day and dance all night? After a while they will be thrown on society nervous, exhausted imbeciles.

I actually do a lot of Pilates and try to hike every day that I'm home. Also, I dance SO much in my shows and at rehearsals!

I wanted to do dance with the same seriousness as art was done and acknowledged, not with the entertainment factor that is always connected to theater and film.

You can raise welts like nobody else, as we dance to the Masochism Tango.

Life is found in the dance between your deepest desire and your greatest fear.

I would love to compose something for dance before I kick the bucket, and I'm not closed-minded about the dance, or the dance company.

It's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer.

when dancing is right, the movement possesss a logic common to us all, an inevitability that takes it beyond the personal and egocentric and makes of it classical art.

Dance, like music, knows no geographical boundaries, no linguistic barriers and no racial divisions. All walls crumble where art is concerned. It is a great unifying and integrating force.

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.

My first vocation was dance.

Anyone who has a child today should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he'll escape.

We dance, we kiss, we schmooze, we carry on, we go home happy. What do you say? Come on.

I dance with the dancers.

O come ye in peace here, or come ye in war, Or to dance at our bridal, young Lord Lochinvar?

When I play on my fiddle in Dooney Folk dance like a wave on the sea.

Now, neighbor confines, purge you of your scum! Have you a ruffian that will swear, drink, dance, revel the night, rob, murder, and commit the oldest sins the newest kind of ways?

She is your treasure, she must have a husband; I must dance bare-foot on her wedding day, And, for your love to her, lead apes in hell.

Hot and hasty, like a Scotch jig.

I think if you give in and accept society's stereotypes, then you start thinking, 'I cannot dance till late at night because I'm 70.'

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.

Our biological rhythms are the symphony of the cosmos, music embedded deep within us to which we dance, even when we can't name the tune.

My advice for life: dance and sing your song while the party is still on.

I enjoy every climb - maybe it's because it's a literal dance between life and death.

Dance has always been my number one. I started when I was seven years old and I've had the opportunity to work with some really amazing artists.

I've sought out several dance teachers-shaman-like women dance teachers-to get in touch with the mystical through movement.

If a dishonest creep wants to tap dance, give them the spotlight and a mirror.

Dancing's not work. You can't call it work. A day I don't dance is a day I don't live.

Turn around, Piglet. Step lightly, Pooh. This silly ol' dance is perfect for two.

My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance.

If you were foolish enough to sing all the summer, you must dance supperless to bed in the winter.

Dance on the edge of mystery.

Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.

To dance is to give channel to the Creator.

I honestly find it easier to dance about in heels than I do to walk down the street in them.

It is a temptation to exploit one's technique because an audience is easily reached this way, but they cannot be moved by technique alone and to move an audience is the role of dance as an art.

A dancer differeth from a madman only in length of time; one is mad so long as he liveth, the other while he danceth.

A cat is never a presentation, but an innocent happening.

Dance allows confidence to grow and inhibitions to fall away, and I pride myself on building people's confidence.

Joy is a strength; intoxication, a weakness.