Dance Quotes · Page 154

Everyone knows 'Smash' is about musical numbers, and everyone knows we have fantastic dance sequences and great performances.

— Raza Jaffrey

There was an expression of intensity in dance that was so compelling to me that I wanted a piece of that action.

— Lisa Yuskavage

The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable.…

— Charles Baudelaire

I can remember being very keen to go to drama school at the age of eight, and practising ballet in my bedroom…

— Carmen Ejogo

May our hearts be full like our drinks tonight, May we sing and dance till we lose our minds

— Mars Mavis Paul John

Singing and dancing have been shown to modulate brain chemistry, specifically levels of dopamine, the 'feel good' neurotransmitter.

— Daniel Levitin

I must admit that I do love to dance, but doing it in front of the nation is a whole different matter!

— Ainsley Harriott

Even when I was busy with acting, dance has always been there. You can't separate the two.

— Shobana

There's this certain caliber of dancing I was striving for when I was younger, and it's very hard for me to go…

— Summer Glau

I didn't go to normal high school, I went to full-time ballet school, so I led very regimented, disciplined years. The classes…

— Emilie De Ravin

I am dancing all the time. Every gesture, the body line of every pose, the way I get from place to place,…

— Ray Bolger

Even after choreographing some big numbers, I didn't qualify as the top choreographer. You need to have godfathers and big people to…

— Remo D'Souza

Everyone always asks if I'm going to 'make my kids do CrossFit.' I'll never make them do anything. I will, however, make…

— Rich Froning Jr

My mum said she remembers me asking her if she'd take me to ballet lessons when I was about two and a…

— Joanne Froggatt

“I skipped between the dancers, twirling my skirts. The seated, masked musicians didn’t look up at me as I leaped before them,…

— Sarah J. Maas

I would love to work with Joanna Newsom on a ballet. I think that would be amazing. She has a gift for…

— Justin Peck

I am seeking that dance which might be the divine expression of the human spirit through the medium of the body's movement.

— Isadora Duncan

Instead of seeing the rug being pulled from under us, we can learn to dance on the shifting carpet.

— Thomas Crum

I love to dance. I can dance for, like, four or five hours nonstop without even drinking water. It's a beautiful, beautiful…

— Petra Nemcova

“I was contemplating dropping out [pole dancing lessons]; I could barely move a muscle. It had certainly burst my ‘I’m in great…

— Andrea Smith

Thus do I want man and woman to be: the one fit to wage war and the other fit to give birth,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Oksana Baiul

I never dreamt of becoming a ballerina. I was just curious about it, it was something to explore.

— Sylvie Guillem

When you do dance, I wish you a wave o' the sea, that you might ever do nothing but that.

— William Shakespeare

Sometimes you dance with a partner, and sometimes you dance alone. But the important thing is to keep dancing.

— Anonymous

I don't want to have strong arms, like you get from Pilates or yoga. But dancing arms become your best accessory. And…

— Natalia Vodianova

I don't see myself going back to 'Strictly' as a professional in the same capacity as I started. But I'll definitely keep…

— A. J. Pritchard

“The rhythm, the dance, the choreography driven through us by any sound, may not be nothing. And it isn't nothing, it is…

— Frederico Rochaferreira

“Disco's are tricky. You look a total wally if you dance too early but after one crucial song tips the disco over,…

— David Mitchell

The reason behind Hrithik being the best dancer is that he never takes his work for granted.

— Yami Gautam

People tend to shy away from tall guys who dance, but hey, we can make it look good, too!

— Ser'Darius Blain

We've had nothing but support from everybody in the dance world for a National Dance Day.

— Nigel Lythgoe

You may be wondering why I went from over there to over here. Well, that was choreography.

— Allan Sherman

My acting style and my physicality lends itself to doing things like putting a scene together for a dancing competition.

— Chris Klein

There was a time when my mum would sew costumes for the dance studio so we could keep doing our classes because…

— Julianne Hough

But this isn’t like anything I’ve ever seen, or imagined, or even dreamed: This is like music or dancing but better than…

— Lauren Oliver

You said smile ...I smile you said dance ...I dance you leave me ... I cry and crying till

— Tinku Razoria

If I wanted to do clothes or if I wanted to make a building or design a choreography, you are able to…

— Zaha Hadid

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Ask Nureyev to stop dancing, ask Sinatra to stop singing, then you can ask me to stop playing.

— Billie Jean King