Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Getting up to dance to your own stuff looks pretty pretentious. And leaving the dancefloor when it comes on is just awkward.

Shirley MacLaine

Being a dancer meant you nearly always thought about food.

Shirley MacLaine

To dance at all is to confront oneself. It is the art of honesty.

Shirley MacLaine

You can't lie when you dance. It's so direct. You do what is in you. It is impossible to dance out of the side of your mouth.

Shirley MacLaine

Dance is an art that imprints on the soul. It is with you every moment, it expresses itself in everything you do.

Shirley MacLaine

Then come the lights shining on you from above. You are a performer. You forget all you learned, the process of technique, the fear, the pain, you even forget who you are you become one with the music, the lights, indeed one with the dance.

Shirley MacLaine

I want women to be liberated and still be able to have a nice ass and shake it.

Shakira

I'm not a trained dancer, but I grew up in a culture that revolves around dance.

Pink

If God is the DJ, then Life is the dance floor; Love is the rhythm and You are the music.

Philippe Petit

I am very sensitive to all form of music, painting, sculpting, dancing, and I love cinema also. For example if I look at the work of the dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov, who happens to be a friend of mine, everything he does is inspiring to me.

Rachel Stevens

My personal trainer is an ex-dancer so we do a lot of ballet and jazz.

Rachel Stevens

Just because you've been on stage doesn't mean you can dance.

Taylor Phinney

I would describe my dancing talents as incredibly deep.

Taylor Schilling

I actually like pole dancing! It gives you so much confidence. I never thought I'd do it, but now I'm really into it.

Stanley Kubrick

Nothing is as dangerous as a sure thing.

Stacy Schiff

As always, an educated woman was a dangerous woman.

Soren Kierkegaard

Comparison is the most dangerous acquaintance love can make.

Thomas Hardy

To dance with a man is to concentrate a twelvemonth's regulation fire upon him in the fragment of an hour. To pass to courtship without acquaintance, to pass to marriage without courtship, is a skipping of terms reserved for those alone who tread this royal road.

Thomas Campion

Kind are her answers, But her performance keeps no day; Breaks time, as dancers. From their own Music when they stray.

Russell Brand

To this day, I feel a fierce warmth for women that have the same disregard for the social conventions of sexual protocol as I do. I love it when I meet a woman and her sexuality is dancing across her face, so it's apparent that all we need to do is nod and find a cupboard.

Ruben Blades

We had something to say. Whenever we played, people didn't dance, they listened.

Ruben Blades

Every band had their own distinctive sound, but it was pretty much dancing music and rhythmic music with a tremendous emphasis on copying the Cuban models.

Umberto Eco

When you are on the dancefloor, there is nothing to do but dance.

Tyler James Williams

I've been dancing forever; since I remember, that's what I've been doing.

Trey Songz

I'm no dancer. I got rhythm, I can dance if I need to, but I'm not Chris Brown. He's an amazing dancer. If I'm not going to be amazing at it, I'm not gon' do it. I'm gonna do what works for me, and you're going to feel it 'cause it's me.

Trace Adkins

If I feel like doing something, I do it. If I feel like saying something, I say it. If I feel like dancing, I do. If I don't, I don't.

Rick Dees

One's concentration as a performer must remain centered on the action of which one is a part. For it is in truth only one's own concentration on the imagined reality of the role that can force the audience's attention to that same place.

Maddie Ziegler

I want to stay with dancing, because that's what I want to do the rest of my life. I want to be in film and be acting and maybe even modeling a little bit.

Maddie Hasson

I was a dancer first, which made me realize how much I loved performing.

K. D. Lang

To dance is human, to polka is divine.

Willem Dafoe

Sometimes I say I feel more like a dancer than an actor, because there are things implied about being an actor that I don't really like. I feel more comfortable with the word 'performer'. I like being the thing. I like being the doer. There's a factualness to it. And then certain resonances happen out of how you apply yourself physically.

Saint Augustine

Learn to dance, so when you get to heaven the angels know what to do with you.

Saint Francis de Sales

A dance is the devil's procession, and he that entereth into a dance, entereth into his possession.