Famous Quotes & Sayings

Agnes de Mille

The choreographic process is exhausting. It happens on one's feet after hours of work, and the energy required is roughly the equivalent of writing a novel and winning a tennis match simultaneously.

Agnes de Mille

When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience. I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.

Agnes de Mille

The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.

Agnes de Mille

A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.

Agnes de Mille

The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.

Agnes de Mille

Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible

Agnes de Mille

But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises. In the same way the lifted leg of an arabesque becomes a wing, and not a mechanical leverage like a raised trap door. This is the precise difference between dancing and acrobatics. The dancer tries to express something; the acrobat merely pulls, raises, stretches and grinds. The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.

Agnes de Mille

Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.

Agnes Varda

If I was tall and blonde, I might have been a dancer or singer.

Al Sharpton

James Brown lives, as long as someone steps out of their body and dances uncontrollably.

Al Pacino

All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.

Chita Rivera

Mother loved dance so much that she thought (ballerina) Margot Fonteyn should be the president.

Chinua Achebe

Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane. H. P. LOVECRAFT, attributed, Telling It Like It Is Dancing is very important nowadays. No girl will look at you if you can't dance.

Chinua Achebe

Whatever music you beat on your drum there is somebody who can dance to it.

Charles Baudelaire

Even when she walks one would believe that she dances.

Charles Baudelaire

Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

Charles Baudelaire

Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals.

Beyonce Knowles

I don't use backing tapes when I am singing and dancing on stage. I can do cartwheels and sing.

Ben Vereen

So be encouraged and dedicate yourself to your dream and if your dream should come my way one day then we will dance upon the boards of life.

Arna Bontemps

Let us keep the dance of rain our fathers kept and tread our dreams beneath the jungle sky.

We always envisioned it to be a big dance production.

Mitchell Baker

There are dancers and painters and writers who pursued that whether or not they are paid for it. There are a lot of technologists who are the same.

Caity Lotz

I was a dancer before I was an actress, so I've always been someone who likes to communicate from my body and movement.

We've updated the show, ... There is a lot more of Jennifer singing and dancing.

Bill Murray

All of us kids ended up 'doing Mom.' There are four of us who've tried show business. Five if you insist on counting my sister the nun, who does liturgical dance.

Benjamin Spock

I love to dance and I'd love to be saying goodbye to my friends while the band was playing and they were dancing...I want them to remember I was a dancing man in my day.

Bill Austin

When you take dancing lessons, you learn steps and you learn steps and you learn steps. It can go on for a long time. And then one day, you just learn to dance, and it is so different.

Bob Marley

Sun is shining. Weather is sweet. Make you wanna move your dancing feet.

Bette Midler

It's the one who won't be taken that cannot seem to give, and the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live.

Bette Midler

It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance. It is the dream afraid of waking that never takes the chance.

Bob Fosse

I think Balanchine and Robbins talk to God and when I call, he's out to lunch.

Bob Fosse

Human beings are born with the instinct to express themselves through movement. Even before he could communicate with words, primitive man was dancing to the beat of his own heart.

Bob Fosse

The energy doesn't end at the hands. I want such intensity that it feels like light is streaming from every finger.