Dance Quotes · Page 172

The first time I took a plane to dance in front of an audience outside France was when I was in the…

— Sylvie Guillem

Sometimes it's harder to untrain somebody with dance experience than it is to teach somebody with a new skill.

— Cheryl Burke

Choreography is simpler than you think. Just go and do, and don't think so much about it. Just make something interesting.

— George Balanchine

There is a clearing for new creative thought in choreography. I don't feel intimidated; there is a lot I can do that…

— Justin Peck

Noncooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent, so is the ballet.

— Julia Child

I started off in dance. That was actually my first passion, which introduced me to music, which people don't really know.

— Normani Kordei

I prefer musicals, because I am the best dancer who ever lived. The best plies, the best sashays, and by far the…

— Adam Sandler

I sent out a tweet, 'Dancing with the Stars' should stop the jibber jabber. They shouldn't make the departure of a dancer…

— Mr. T

It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough…

— Isadora Duncan

I worked with the same trainer that worked with Denzel Washington in THe Hurricane. It was three months of training, five days…

— Wentworth Miller

I grew up learning ballet and then I took up contemporary as I got older. I probably thought I was going to…

— Elizabeth Debicki

I was stuck in a wheelchair playing this deranged villain. I felt this mass amount of rage at being so confined. I…

— Kenneth Branagh

“Why are you carrying all these sticky drinks out to the dance floor?" "My friends just got engaged. We're doing the girls'…

— Christina Lauren

In fact, I wasn't going to dance in Xanadu, but several journalists told me that Olivia Newton-John kept saying how sad she…

— Gene Kelly

A lot of my actor friends say 'You know what? If I ever come back in another life I'm coming back as…

— Leslie Uggams

Ballet dancing is arduous, strenuous activity. Students are engaged in physical training that rivals the training Olympic athletes undergo. At the same…

— George Balanchine

I studied all kinds of dance, all types of music. I got good grades. I started hitting the recording studio around 13.

— Jason Derulo

I love dancing and I think my dancing served me and my singing because I have a sense of rhythm and timing.

— Claire Danes

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

— Sydney Pollack

I think dancing was a way of showing your femininity and, through the years, your strength, because it's a male-dominated industry.

— Shirley Ballas

Since a lot of dance movements begin and end with the legs, there is a lot of attention drawn to them. The…

— Cheryl Burke

“Until we teach our children that they need to be concerned with how they look and with what other people think, they…

— Brené Brown

Dancing is different than gymnastics, but it's a good different, and it's something that I've always wanted to try.

— Laurie Hernandez

When I've done gymnastics, ballet or soccer - I was always trying to be the best. I'm really driven. Really driven.

— Chloe Grace Moretz

I think that ballet and skating definitely go hand in hand, especially growing up at Ballet West, which is an incredible academy.

— Nathan Chen

Before I became famous, people who know me closely knew me first as a dancer, then a composer. I make music because…

— Devi Sri Prasad

“I want to woo you with food now that I've wooed you with words, song, and the magic of my interpretive dance.”

— Stacey Jay

I just want to get on a table, dance on someone's tater tots, and wait for the hall monitor to drag me…

— Katherine Applegate

If you don't dance, for heaven's sake, you cannot aspire. You do not lift up from this earth.

— Mimi Weddell

If you want a dancer's body, dance. Dance aerobics is my favourite cardio. It's very frustrating if people think you have to…

— Tracy Anderson

I have no desire to prove anything by my work. I have never used it as an outlet or as a means…

— Fred Astaire

“Where are you supposed to put your arms when you dance? It’s like the Universal Question.”

— Ned Vizzini

I love going out dancing. There is nothing better than letting your hair down and staying up far too late, is there?

— Liberty Ross

Dancing is another way to communicate. That's what separates The Pussycat Dolls from other groups.

— Nicole Scherzinger

Being one with life is being one with Now. You then realize that you don't live your life, but life lives you.…

— Eckhart Tolle

I enjoyed Ready For This, which was created by the people behind Dance Academy and Redfern Now, and really it's what you'd…

— Justine Larbalestier

The dancing vortex of a sacred metaphor clashes horns and halos to make wounded music set to the tempo of a new…

— Aberjhani

Want to learn how to dance? Have a cold shower today at midnight, I bet, Youll rock like SHAKIRA :)

— Anonymous

I'm so happy to be able to give kids the opportunity to learn about amazing world of dance and music that I've…

— Britney Spears

Dances have a second and third life. You feel they are never ready. They always have a chance for another life.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov