Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Sammy Davis, Jr.

Tap dancing all started with the old clog waltz.

T. S. Eliot

At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is.

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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Painting seems to be to the eye what dancing is to the limbs. When that has educated the frame to self-possession, to nimbleness,to grace, the steps of the dancing-master are better forgotten; so painting teaches me the splendor of color and the expression of form, and as I see many pictures and higher genius in the art, I see the boundless opulence of the pencil, the indifferency in which the artist stands free to choose out of the possible forms.

Lincoln Kirstein

Dance design is not simply one element; it is that without which ballet cannot exist. As aria is to opera, words to poetry, color to painting, so sequence in steps - their syntax, idiom, vocabulary - are the stuff of stage dancing.

Lincoln Kirstein

Ballet dancers are a self-chosen elite. To survive and surmount years of disciplinary preparation and seasons of even more arduous performance requires rigid determination and almost mindless self-abnegation. One other factor is difficult to predetermine: without a certain admixture of hysteria - sometimes masking as self-obsession, sometimes even counterfeiting incipient madness - performers, at once acrobats, artists, and animals, make little public impression.

at night when all asleep; the spirits dance in the moonlight

We went out to dinner and did some line dancing. But we know we have to play a game.

Antony Tudor

My body can't demonstrate. It isn't willing to explore movements the way it used to. I've always had to find the movement in myself then show it in myself. If I've got the sense of movement for the character, I expect the dancer to get it too.

I come from a world of hip-hop, but I love all types of music, and that's what Revolt will reflect. It will be home to electronic dance music, pop, hip-hop.

Sabrina Bryan

Every girl likes to just rock out when they put music on in their room - I learned that personally when fans would tell us how much they loved to make up their own dances to Cheetah Girls songs.

To watch us dance is to hear our hearts speak

Joe Eszterhas

What I want to say to teenagers is, 'Do everything you can to see this movie, use your false I.D.'s and do what ever it is you have to do. Because not only will you love the rock 'n' roll parts of it and the dance parts of it, but the message, which is you don't have to sell your soul in order to stay alive, is one that will echo in the hearts of teenagers everywhere.

Twirl around Piglet, Step lightly Pooh, This silly ol' dance is perfect for two.

John Dryden

Witness ye days and nights, and all ye hours, / That danced away with down upon your feet.

Jamie Wyeth

To me, dance is so ethereal and elusive, so much of an illusion. After a performance, that's it. With vocals and music, you have good recordings.

Allen Toussaint

It was the real thing ... When we were recording, sometimes we'd make a 'human fade' - we would just play softer and softer. We didnt have any overdubbing. When one guy took a solo, the other guys would stand up and snap their fingers and dance around the studio. We were having a wonderful time.

Jess Glynne

I've been this voice of a lot of upbeat dance tracks, but people don't really know me.

I've been dancing since I was about 3 or 4.

I've been dancing around since I was a baby. When I am sitting around, I'm always dancing in my mind.

Kathy Kinney

We have to dance, dance now, dance a lot, dance hard, dance fast, ... I still feel it in my ankles.

Mads Mikkelsen

I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.

Ruben Blades

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

Umberto Eco

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

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.

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.