Dance Quotes · Page 119

What I loved most about 'Rhythm Nation' were the uniforms and the perfect group choreography.

— BoA

I actually wanted to be a dancer, though I doubt anyone now would pay to see me in a leotard!

— Finty Williams

Since finishing my professional dancing career, I've been conscious of not letting myself go.

— Darcey Bussell

I will dance and resist and dance and persist and dance. This heartbeat is louder than death.

— Suheir Hammad

It is not respectful to dance with people you don't know when invited to someone else's home.

— Sonja Morgan

I went to an all-boys school, where I played rugby, so ballet wasn't the coolest thing to do.

— Tom Holland

“then to the dance, and make the sober moon... witness of joys that shun the sights of noon.”

— William Cowper

If you don't go to a dance, you can never be rejected, but you'll never get to dance, either.

— Maeve Binchy

But I still show up for gentleman practice in the company of lead dancers, hoping their grace will get stuck in my…

— Buddy Wakefield

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 love the way she slow dance, she make me throw more bands. Grabbin' ass with both hands, she in love with…

— Juicy J

Yeah, I grew up doing ballet and jazz and tap, but I stopped at the age of 25, and I've never stepped…

— Kaitlyn Bristowe

Lisa Gerrard from Dead Can Dance is my favorite singer as a singer - so I'm really widely spread open with music…

— Maria Brink

“There is a lady dancing on a cracked plate. A withered spider on the carpet. A piano with a full set of…

— Conchitina Cruz

What's so wonderful about ballet is that it's mind-driven physicality. It's almost a Greek ideal of body, mind, and form.

— Edward Villella

While performing, I can't wear anything that I'm not going to be able to dance in or heels that don't have ankle…

— Kali Uchis

I was one of those kids who tended to stay in on Saturday nights. My mother used to come and say, 'Why…

— Ridley Scott

Figure skating has been a great influence for me. I took dance at the School of American Ballet, which helped my own…

— Vera Wang

The theme of the dance was "Great Romances," or some such nonsense. There were projections of supposedly great couples from the past…

— Gabrielle Zevin

I love the way in which I make up dances. It's a complicated way and the product is usually clear. Clear and…

— Mark Morris

I grew up on rap and hip-hop and fell into dance music. Hip-hop died down, and I moved more into dance music,…

— Nomi Ruiz

UFC 203, Stipe Miocic is defending his belt in Cleveland, Ohio, that's where I spent a lot of my amateur career and…

— Cody Garbrandt

“Scent is such a powerful tool of attraction, that if a woman has this tool perfectly tuned, she needs no other. I…

— Roman Payne

It's easy to fall into victim mode and feel like the world is against you. The truth is, people aren't against you:…

— Kerli

I've been canyoning, snorkelled a shipwreck, and learnt to Irish dance, all in the same week.

— Ashley Roberts

“It's dancing! It's magical, actually. A kind of slowish magic. Like writing with your feet.”

— Katherine Rundell

Ideally, a dancer should put in 10 hours of daily practice to deliver a polished performance.

— Shakti Mohan

If I didn't have kids, I would be at the theater or the ballet every single night of my life.

— Sarah Jessica Parker

I studied dancing for 13 years. And loved to dance. Always wanted to dance with Fred Astaire.

— Lauren Bacall

First comes the sweat. Then comes the beauty if you're very lucky and have said your prayers.

— George Balanchine

Oh yeah, dancing's part of my soul. I enjoy it, it makes people happy, and it makes me happy.

— John Travolta

While ya bounce in a tempa. Watch your girlfriend watch your partner. Dem a dance in a fever.

— Reel 2 Real

The crazy thing about the dab is like - dance moves, once you create them, they last forever.

— Quavo

But it was like a dance across a field strewn with razors, and I bled with every step I took.

— Ann Aguirre

“...a square dance might start innocent, but it sure don’t take long to cut off the corners.”

— Sam Torode

I can dance. I like hip hop and stuff and jazz movements, but I'm horrible in ballet. I tried.

— Keke Palmer

I did pretty good for a guy who never finished high school and used to yodel at square dances.

— Roy Rogers

I like the most provocative and most surprising partnerships on stage. Intensity and surprise.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

Ballet technique is arbitrary and very difficult. It never becomes easy...it becomes possible.

— Agnes De Mille

The spirit of dance is an amazing thing. When the body and the spirit meet, it's a good thing.

— Chita Rivera