Dance Quotes · Page 163

Let's just say my dancing skills are right below my basketball skills, which are right below my pottery skills.

— Breckin Meyer

'Makossa' is from Africa, and it means 'dance.' It's also the name for this type of music. In my song, I decided…

— Natti Natasha

I'm not interested in fame and glory. It's just that I would like others to know what a happy dance this is.

— Frankie Manning

There's a certain tradition to the way that you behave in dance, and a certain respect that you give to your elders.

— Neve Campbell

Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but the living room in your fortified compound.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“The dance that I wasn't going to attend in about a jillion years just turned into a make-out session with random boys…

— Adriana Trigiani

When it came to the stylish and graceful art of ballroom dancing, my dad was a king of the clubs, a prowling…

— Bruno Tonioli

I really enjoy dancing. When there's music around, I can't help it; I start dancing, especially when I'm with friends.

— Cameron Monaghan

I think that's a responsibility I have, to not leave the listener with complete dread or depressing, dark thoughts, but to leave…

— Jens Lekman

You know when this guy explains the essence of dance to his students he isn’t faking it. But it’s when the choreographer-dancer’s…

— Subhash K. Jha

I've never understood the point of ecstasy. I think if I wanted to get dehydrated and jump about with a load of…

— Victoria Wood

For a performer, passion is far more important than technical skills. If a dancer's leg isn't at a perfect angle, I can…

— Louise Nurding

“Life is like the big wheel at Luna Park. You pay five francs and go into a room with tiers of seats…

— Evelyn Waugh

Let us first teach little children to breathe, to vibrate, to feel, and to become one with the general harmony and movement…

— Isadora Duncan

Till now, I've not had the chance to dance in my films, but in 'Tej I Love You,' I have to dance.…

— Anupama Parameswaran

I did tap dancing and stuff like that at drama school. I did ballet as well. My dance teacher and I didn't…

— Tom Weston-Jones

“Birth unites women in the power of oneness; the extraordinary gift we deeply share as mothers. Belly dance for birth reflects this…

— Maha Al Musa

“Wafted by a favouring gale As one sometimes is in trances, To a height that few can scale, Save by long and…

— W.S. Gilbert

Dancers are stripped enough onstage. You don't have to know more about them than they've given you already.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

I swear to God, if you saw me when I am by myself in the woods, I'm a lunatic. I sing, I…

— Chris Evans

What's wrong with the 'Laffy Taffys' and the Soulja Boys? We need fun records. We gotta have dance music. We gotta have…

— Pimp C

I'm a dancer, so I do four hours of dance a week of ballet, jazz, hip hop, contemporary. I also play the…

— Ryan Newman

I grew up in the '80s, when breaking was cool, and then it got corny in the '90s, and it became cool…

— Matt Besser

I started dancing before I could talk. Other babies learn to stand and then walk - I just danced.

— Bruno Tonioli

Once when I danced on television there was no script for me. They told me, 'you know, just dance.' Well, you don't…

— Vera-Ellen

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

— Twyla Tharp

“I’ve never been shy about dancing. Boys who are shy about dancing look like uncoordinated morons, and girls definitely get turned off…

— Anonymous

“some of the boys she went with in Baltimore were "terrible speeds" and came to dances in states of artificial stimulation;”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Dance music cannot compete with a really great rock n' roll song. There ain't no DJ that's gonna play something that can…

— Brandon Flowers

Tap was against everything I had learned to do. I was pulled up as a ballet dancer, and I wasn't used to…

— Cyd Charisse

Tim Tebow cannot dance, I know that. Tebow can do a lot of things, but he can not dance.

— Erin Andrews

My choreography suits men very well, and the women who can do it are damn hard, strong dancers.

— Paula Abdul

If you start dancing too young, it can be torture. The bone is too soft, and it is going everywhere.

— Sylvie Guillem

“Like in a graceful dance, in their interactions, there had never been any stifling, awkward, or rough movements—just light, fleeting touches.”

— Torres and Firsht

When the correct technique feels wrong, different and confusing there is change and grow

— Jeff Allen

The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes…

— Barbara De Angelis

Being a ballet dancer isn't cool. Football, boxing, hockey... they're cool. And you make more money.

— Sergei Polunin

Doing 'Strictly' has been so emotional - the support we've had, the relief getting through every dance, the reaction in the room.

— Chris McCausland

“We think to dance, and dance in thought. But to hibernate in the mind, is to bring upon us an apocalypse of…

— Ilyas Kassam

I dance around my living room to cheesy '80s aerobics music until I'm sweating really hard!

— Evangeline Lilly