Dance Quotes · Page 85

I always wanted to teach dance. I didn't know I'd have a TV career.

— Alyssa Edwards

“Awareness is eternity... and dances in the present moment.”

— Bert McCoy

“I would only believe in a god who could dance.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I'm weirdly flexible, so when I dance, I dance like a 17-year-old girl.

— Michael Angarano

At Brown, I trained in West African dance and drumming.

— Sophie Hawley-Weld

“It takes two to tango, and if you dance too long, implosion is inevitable.”

— Allie Burke

Dean Magraw so liquid, lyrical and effortless it's like listening to a dancer.

— Steve Tibbetts

If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts.

— Ritchie Blackmore

Way back before 1980, prior to 'Disco Dancer' breaking into the collective consciousness of filmgoers, I had come to Chennai to compose…

— Bappi Lahiri

The society girl meets more dangers than the girl on the stage. There is more danger at a tango tea than in…

— Lillian Russell

I learned how to communicate and articulate myself from ballet. It's just insane to me, when they don't think of that as…

— Misty Copeland

We know how hard we've worked, we know how our choreography makes us feel empowered. We have our voices, which are incredible…

— Lauren Jauregui

I was from Washington, D.C., and then I came to New York and got the scholarship for the ballet.

— Chita Rivera

I have suffered more from my bad dancing than from all the misfortunes and miseries of my life put together.

— Walter Savage Landor

I want to be more physical and theatrical within the stand-up. There might be dance moments, and people better watch out -…

— Miranda Hart

Then I turned myself inside out. La da da da da and it's all about the way your hips move. Side to…

— The Ready Set

“To trace the development of mind from earliest times...requires...not a categorical concept, but a functional one… The most promising operational principle for…

— Susanne K. Langer

For what the horse does under compulsion, as Simon also observes, is done without understanding; and there is no beauty in it…

— Xenophon

Dancers do not progress to become leading ladies. We become well-respected ensemblists. When I left 'Hamilton,' I realized that if I wanted…

— Ariana DeBose

People like to hear songs that they can dance to. Even if they're sitting, they like being made to want to dance…

— Illinois Jacquet

I remember breaking the news to both my parents that I wanted to be a director, and they both looked very doubtful.…

— Karan Johar

As a professional ballet dancer, I have to accept that weekends are about work. The notion of a leisurely break with all…

— Sylvie Guillem

It is now, after doing TV shows and so much work, that people have accepted me as a great choreographer. So I…

— Remo D'Souza

Fight choreography has far more in common with dance choreography than it does with actual martial arts. You learn martial arts techniques,…

— David Leitch

Eroticism is like a dance: one always leads the other.

— Milan Kundera

I'm thought of as a cool, unemotional dancer, but inside I'm not.

— Suzanne Farrell

The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead.

— Marilyn Monroe

The dancer will not belong to any nation but to all humanity.

— Isadora Duncan

I don't think you can really trust a man who likes to dance.

— Brian Billick

Dance is the product of the necessity for pure emotional expression.

— La Meri

Our interactions with one another reflect a dance between love and fear.

— Ram Dass

I am a singer and dancer, and I've been perfecting it for a lot of years.

— Tony Danza

I love to watch films, going out and watching bands, going out dancing.

— Corinne Bailey Rae

To see the clothes in movement like that, to create for dancers, is special.

— Isabel Toledo

The key is to remember there is a tomorrow morning. The dance will continue.

— Newt Gingrich

Dance means everything to me; it is like fresh air that rejuvenates my life.

— Sudha Chandran

The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.

— Martha Graham

“and his fingers dance against the trigger.”

— Lauren Oliver

If I was strictly an artist, I'd have to learn to dance and get a shiny suit and stuff.

— J. J. Cale

When I'm getting ready for a tour, I'll work out with the dancers.

— Janet Jackson