I was a tap dancer as a child, so I understand precision…

I never wanted to be a painter; I wanted to be a tap dancer.

— Andy Warhol

I'm basically a hoofer, a tap dancer. I was always very good from the waist down, moving with the feet... I became what's known…

— Donald O'Connor

A tap dancer is really a frustrated drummer.

— Eleanor Powell

I trained in every form of dance - started as a tap dancer when I was a kid, then contemporary, ballet, ballroom, everything. Russian,…

— Nigel Lythgoe

I wanted to be a tap dancer when I was very young.

— Ruskin Bond

I could have been a mediocre tap dancer.

— Brad Hall

I'm a tap dancer. Once you're a tap dancer, you're always a tap dancer. In 'After Midnight,' I get to dance, but I don't…

— Dule Hill

I would imagine that if you could understand Morse code, a tap dancer would drive you crazy.

— Mitch Hedberg

I taught and studied dance in college, and for over a decade, I thought that would be my career: tap dancer, ballet dancer, modern…

— Margo Price

Tap dancers find it very difficult to do anything other than tap if that is all they have been trained in because, again, it's…

— Nigel Lythgoe

Work like you don't need the money.

— Joseph Joubert

When I was a child I wanted to be Pope. My greatest disappointment is missing out on that. I also wanted to be a…

— Peter Ackroyd

You get good at being by yourself and you're condemned to a life sentence of solitude. You think, "Wait a minute! I should have…

— Sandra Cisneros

I feel like people used to leave their homes and go to their local theatre, and they used to watch ballet dancers and musical…

— Laura Benanti

I wonder if tap dancers walk into a room, look at a floor and think, 'I'd so tap that.'

— Anonymous