Dance Quotes

• I feel like there's no need to put on a heel that's too high. There's nothing cute about wobbling. There's nothing cute about not wanting to dance or walk somewhere because you're in pain.

  

  Yara Shahidi
  • High
  • Pain
  • Cute

• I've always loved to sing and dance, but the caliber of my talent in those areas obviously is not nearing Patti LuPone or Sutton Foster.

  

  Emma Stone
  • Talent
  • Sing
  • Patti LuPone

• I learned to appreciate repetition. That's why I can dance. It's how I learned to act. I have a high tolerance for repetition.

  

  Channing Tatum
  • Why
  • High
  • Tolerance

• I've been lifting weights since I was literally 15 or 16 years old. My muscles are short and powerful and built to lift heavy weights, not to be graceful and glide around a dance floor.

  

  Jake Pavelka
  • Powerful
  • Dance
  • Lifting

• But from the time I was very little, it was something I would do all the time, just sing, dance and act. So it wasn't something that was fake or contrived as I got older.

  

  Jennifer Lopez
  • Time
  • Dance
  • Fake

• Shakespeare's always on my dance card if it can be.

  

  Kenneth Branagh
  • Dance

• I learned to act by watching Martha Graham dance, and I learned to dance by watching Charlie Chaplin act.

  

  Louise Brooks
  • Dancing
  • Charlie
  • Chaplin

• Dance fascinates me, and it is perhaps the most enriching audio-visual realm for a musician. Film-making also fascinates me.

  

  Jean-Michel Jarre
  • Dance

• The dance world was a big part of my growing up.

  

  Amy Sherman-Palladino
  • Up
  • World
  • Growing

• Disco told audiences to dance, while punk told them to be anything but passive. The artists didn't mind; in fact, they encouraged it.

  

  Elizabeth Flock
  • Mind
  • Dance

• Give me something to dance about and I'll dance it.

  

  Jerome Robbins
  • Giving
  • Dance

• Nineties music was what I grew up with, and I want to make music that's soulful but that you can also dance and drive to.

  

  Conrad Sewell
  • Up
  • Music
  • Dance

• There's a lot of good rappers in England at the moment. There's a lot of good dance acts. A lot of good, young guitar acts. I think a lot of groups came from that dole culture of the late 80's/early 90's - it's not as easy now. I think there's a dearth of working class bands.

  

  Ian Brown
  • Good
  • Culture
  • Dance

• I had to dance in a Tweety Bird costume once.

  

  Margarita Levieva
  • Dance
  • Bird

• I just knew I loved music, and I wanted to do something in music, but I couldn't sing, I can't dance, I am an introvert. So I was like, 'What exactly is there for me to do? What can I do?' There's all these questions, there's all these things that are telling you 'no' instead of 'yes.' Those are the things I dealt a lot with, my insecurity.

  

  Karen Civil
  • Music
  • Insecurity
  • Introvert

• Most of the time you're playing the crazy girl or the stripper - always the stripper! I mean, how many strippers can I play. I can do a lap dance phenomenally, and that's not a good sign, because I'm not a stripper.

  

  Diora Baird
  • Time
  • Good
  • Girl

• You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance.

  

  Ken Robinson
  • Music
  • Science
  • Painting

• Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air and water. Men can employ it as a tool or they can dance around it as if it were the incarnation of a god. Money votes socialist or monarchist, finds a profit in pornography or translations from the Bible, commissions Rembrandt and underwrites the technology of Auschwitz. It acquires its meaning from the uses to which it is put.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • God
  • Men
  • Money

• A huge part of Irish dance is balance, which is so good for any kind of combat - just being aware of your body.

  

  Annie Wersching
  • Good
  • Balance
  • Irish

• When it's wet, you're much more tense on the steering wheel, you have to dance with the throttle and the brakes more. Each lap is a different scenario, so you're really on the edge of your nerves. One mistake could cost you the entire race.

  

  Allan McNish
  • Different
  • Dance
  • Mistake

• We are just at the studio, me and my choreographers, we are spending like 30 nights and we are thinking, what is my next dance move? Because in Korea there are huge expectations about my dancing. So it was a lot of pressure.

  

  Psy
  • Thinking
  • Dance

• That's what I love about dance. It makes you happy, fully happy.

  

  Debbie Reynolds
  • Happy
  • Dance

• I always loved music, to dance, and to be really active. When I started skating, it was the first time all of these things came together. It felt like magic, and I always wanted to be at the rink.

  

  Adam Rippon
  • Time
  • Music
  • Together

• My background is in modern dance. I was a dancer and a choreographer before I was a director, and in dance, you can't cheat. Your leg goes up in the air, or it doesn't. So when I direct, I'm a big preparer.

  

  Lesli Linka Glatter
  • Up
  • Air
  • Dance

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