Dance Quotes
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In her dance, she controlled the bright paper birds with invisible wires and threads. She played the human: heavy, tied to earth. Her dances weren't pretty or delightful, but they were magical, [...] They called her a dancer and a puppeteer and an artist. They might have called her a witch, and not the good kind either.
Katherine Catmull
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Comics brought me to the dance. It'll always be my first loyalty.
Brian K. Vaughan
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I like to dance, but not in the air.
Billy the Kid
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I didn't study dance. I had some ballet lessons because I needed it for posture and for my arms, mostly. My skating coach said I really needed it, from the belly button up, as opposed to the footwork. In skating, the shoes don't move.
Dorothy Hamill
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I'm not going to be that kind of a fighter. I'm going to dance and be pretty. I'm just going to win on points.And if I hurt my man I'm going to let him go and I'm not going to kill him just because somebody's watching.
Muhammad Ali
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I think it's incredibly cute when a guy can't dance and doesn't care about how crazy he looks.
Briana Evigan
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Dance is a universal language, and whether you know how to dance or grew up training in dance, you have a respect for people who love to dance, and it's also visually very entertaining to watch a great dancer.
Jenna Dewan
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Bright light put me in a trance, but it ain't house music makes me wanna dance.
Bradley Nowell
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Making music you can dance to is very important to me. I grew up in a family where, when we listened to music everybody would dance, so for me that’s a very natural thing to do.
Jain
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I fell in love with Crawford because when she was twenty or twenty five, she would dance and talk and sing and do the things that Peppy's character needs to do.
Berenice Bejo
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People make the world go, and Mothers make people, so they lead the dance.
Peter V. Brett
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Audiences don't want to see the kind of self-indulgent, boring dance that is so prevalent today.
Mark Morris
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This artistic uprising we had the other night in Washington Square park: there was poetry, there was dance, there was song, there was spoken word; and people left feeling so inspired and so energised. We have to get ourselves out of this syndrome of trauma and being re-traumatised. Art releases this energy. It exposes us to wonder again, and magic again, and ambiguity - all the things we need to really keep going and fighting and resisting in these times.
Eve Ensler
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I always promised myself if I ever got the chance to do a 'Flashdance'-type of movie, I would do my own dancing. I can say with pride that every single dance move in 'Go For It!' is my own dance move.
Aimee Garcia
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When I play on my fiddle in Dooney Folk dance like a wave on the sea.
William Butler Yeats
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There isn’t an education system on the planet that teaches dance everyday to children the way we teach them mathematics. Why?
Ken Robinson
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Opera is everything rolled into one - music, theater, the dance, color and voices and theatrical illusions.
Sarah Caldwell
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If Janet Jackson does the story of her life and I'm still young enough, I am there. No one can pull her off like I can. I have a dance background. I'm definitely not cutting an album anytime soon, but I can lip-synch all day. I can't sing, but I can act like it very well.
Keshia Knight Pulliam
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I always do like seeing other people dance in their cars. It's one of the things that makes me happy.
Ariel Gore
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Our feet are planted in the real world, but we dance with angels and ghosts.
John Cameron Mitchell
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I just wanted to perform, to sing, dance and act.
Jennifer Ellison
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It takes a lot of guts to get up on top of a bar and dance.
Piper Perabo
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What's happening to movie critics is no different from what has been meted out to book, dance, theater, and fine-arts reviewers and reporters in the cultural deforestation that has driven refugees into the diffuse clatter of the Internet and Twitter, where some adapt and thrive - such as Roger Ebert - while others disappear without a twinkle.
James Wolcott
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As a dancer, I'd dance with broken toes. Just like acting, you compete with yourself and drive forward. That discipline helped in Hollywood.
Jaime Pressly