Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anne Lamott

At our most primitive we are storytellers and dancers.

Bobby Hamilton

I can't think about what happened in 2001 and what kind of season it was. It was a good season. But like I say, I hope I can have a season like that, turn it back around and go to the big dance (this year).

James Howe

Life is short and there will always be dirty dishes, so let's dance.

Luc de Clapiers

Whoever has seen the masked at a ball dance amicably together, and take hold of hands without knowing each other, leaving the next moment to meet no more, can form an idea of the world.

Norman Mailer

Tough guys don't dance. You had better believe it.

Ellen DeGeneres

You're gonna be ok, dum de dum dum dum, just dance.

Noel Coward

Dance, dance, dance little lady, / Leave tomorrow behind.

Joe Thomas

It's never sad. It's always upbeat. You want to dance to it. It's fun that's what it's all about.

I want there not to be an inch of space left for people to stand and have a good time and get the beads that are thrown to them and dance and party and just have a lot of fun.

It's kind of like the dance world's equivalent of the Olympics.

Bebe Neuwirth

It's always hard for me not to dance when I'm on camera; I've had great times doing (TV and movies), but physically I feel very restricted.

Alan Cohen

Dance on the edge of mystery.

Carmen Electra

Dancing is my number one love. That was my first goal as a child. I would love to do stage, maybe do Chicago. I love being in front of an audience. It's so stimulating. I also love to barbecue.

Jude Law

When you step back and watch people, you realize that we use every single body part. Movement, dance - I find it genius because it's ultimate expression, really.

Martha Graham

I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being.

Martha Graham

It's what I always wanted to do, to show the laughter, the fun, the joy of dance.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

You can be totally involved, you could admire just the shape of or you could be totally emotionally mushed up into the dance.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

To achieve some depth in your field requires a lot of sacrifices.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Nobody is born a dancer.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

I want to see people dance, and I would like to guess what kind of people they are. I don't want to know the recipe for their pasta.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

The problem is not making up the steps but deciding which ones to keep.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Just sit and open your eyes and open your heart. It's dance theater.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

We're trying to stretch our muscles creatively. It gives us so much more freedom.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

It doesn't matter how high you lift your leg. The technique is about transparency, simplicity, making an earnest attempt.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

There comes a moment in a young artist's life when he knows he has to bring something to the stage from within himself. He has to put in something in order to be able to take something.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

The more injuries you get, the smarter you get.

Margot Fonteyn

Dancing was something to be taken very seriously when engaged in and otherwise put out of mind.

Margot Fonteyn

Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the first time

Margot Fonteyn

The world of dance is a natural world from which civilization has divorced many of us by making it appear remote - something reserved for the few who have a special talent.

Margot Fonteyn

Jumping for joy' is a very basic human reaction, and a child skipping down the street is simply an untrained dancer.

Margot Fonteyn

I explained it when I danced it.

Margot Fonteyn

Ballet is more than a profession - it is a way of life.

Margot Fonteyn

Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.