Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gelsey Kirkland

When you are on stage you are having an affair with three thousand people.

Gena Showalter

Apparently, dancing for him and throwing herself at him weren't enough. Apparently, she had to nearly commit murder to arouse him enough to attack her.

Fred Astaire

I don't remember anybody ever pointing me out as a dancing prodigy, but I played a not bad second base.

Fred Astaire

Slippery stages were the terror of my life.

Fred Astaire

I am bit sending messages with my feet. All I ever wanted was not to come up empty. I did it for the dough and the old applause.

Fred Astaire

Of course, Ginger was able to accomplish sex through dance. We told more through our movements instead of the big clinch. We did it all in the dance.

Fred Astaire

Disco is just jitterbug.

Fred Astaire

This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.

Fred Astaire

I'm just a hoofer with a spare set of tails.

Fred Astaire

It takes time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.

Fred Astaire

If the dance is right, there shouldn't be a single superfluous movement.

Fred Astaire

Dancing is a sweat job.

Fred Astaire

I have no desire to prove anything by my work. I have never used it as an outlet or as a means of expressing myself. I just dance.

Fred Astaire

I have no desire to prove anything by dancing ... I just dance.

Fred Astaire

For ballroom dancing, remember that your partners have their own distinctive styles also. Cultivate flexibility. Be able to adapt your style to that of your partner. In doing so, you are not surrendering your individuality, but blending it with that of your partner.

Fred Astaire

Dancing is a vertical interpretation of a horizontal intention.

Fred Astaire

The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style.

Fred Astaire

Some people seem to think that good dancers are born, but all the good dancers I have known are taught or trained..

Fred Astaire

Do it big, do it right and do it with style.

Eric Cantona

I live to feel myself in danger.

Enrique Iglesias

Would you dance, if I asked you to dance? Would you run, and never look back? Would you cry, if you saw me crying? And would you save my soul tonight?

Gary Shapiro

A contra dance is like an amusement park ride we make for ourselves.

Gary Sinise

It's always been my dream to do a dance scene with Anthony Hopkins.

George Herbert

He that is not in the warres is not out of danger.

George Herbert

Danger it selfe the best remedy for danger.

Chris Klein

My acting style and my physicality lends itself to doing things like putting a scene together for a dancing competition.

Chris Isaak

When I play it I look out and see people hold on to each other and dance or just couples leaning into each other and kiss. And I'll go: 'You know, I could have worked hard at school and been a dentist. But I'm so glad I didn't.' Because when I look out and see that I feel like the Pied Piper of love.

George W. Bush

There will be no going back to the era before September 11th, 2001, to false comfort in a dangerous world.

George Carlin

I was once dancing with a woman who told me she had a yeast infection so I told her to bake me some bread.

Felicity Jones

I'm more of a freestyle dancer. I like to do my own thing.

Ezra Pound

Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.

Euripides

Many a maiden, With white feet dancing light as air, Made happy music through the gloom.

Francesca Annis

I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.