Famous Quotes & Sayings

Twyla Tharp

Desire is the first thing a modern dancer should have. Skill can be developed. But if you don't have desire as a modern dancer, forget it.

Twyla Tharp

I used to say to myself, 'Well, in the old days everybody danced because they loved to dance, and there was none of this professional garbage going on about how much can you get for this or that or the other, or any of the kinds of things that insecurity can sometimes promote. Sometimes it's for the wrong reasons.'

Twyla Tharp

When I say I can see through clothes, sometimes I try to use it as an X-ray vision to look into the dancer and see who this dancer is right now, at this exact moment in time. I live inside them in a way.

Dick Van Dyke

I've always been a bit of an orphan, because actors say, 'Well, he's more of a dancer.' And dancers say, 'No. He's really a singer.' And singers say, 'No. He's an actor.'

Diane Kruger

I only dance when I go out.

O Nanak, no one else is truly alive; those who merely live shall depart in dishonor; everything they eat is impure. Intoxicated with power and thrilled with wealth, they delight in their pleasures, and dance about shamelessly. O Nanak, they are deluded and defrauded.

One of my daughters was trying to dance and impress me, but I didn't even notice her.

Some dancers have technique they can swallow and spit out but have no idea why they're out there.

Jessi Colter

Shooter has always had his own style, from dressing to playing. He's always danced to a different tune. There are times that I worry about him, because I know the weight of that burden.

Simone looks set for the Dancing with the Stars equivalent of a golden duck.

She not only taught dance but self-discipline, self-respect, responsibility and determination, the values that people keep with them forever.

She is a dancer; that was her second life. She danced two or three nights a week for hours.

She loves to play around on the dance floor. Wes is a smooth dancer, and he can feel the rhythm.

Men are reticent to take dance lessons because that's not where their heads are at. They come to it after they turn 40.

Britney Spears

I'm so happy to be able to give kids the opportunity to learn about amazing world of dance and music that I've have been lucky enough to make such a big part of my own life.

Ben Okri

If we could be pure dancers in spirit we would never be afraid to love, and we would love with strength and wisdom.

The only place I'm moving will be on the dance floor tonight. We'll think about that stuff later.

Elizabeth Bowen

... in general, the Anglo-Irish do not make good dancers; they are too spritely and conscious; they are incapable of one kind of trance or of being seemingly impersonal. And, for the formal, pure dance they lack the formality: about their stylishness (for they have stylishness) there is something impromptu, slightly disorderly.

Deepak Chopra

Life is like an eternal dance. The movements of the dance are choreographed through your awareness.

Deepak Chopra

Love dances in the freshness of the unknown

We were dancing with them. We didn't set things up properly and were trying for stuff that wasn't there.

Rita Moreno

When was the last time you saw a story being driven forward by dances and songs?

Last year, the dance floor was packed. I would recommend to get there early if you want to get a table near the dance floor.

Damien Hirst

She wasn't much to look at, but she was great to dance with.

Andie MacDowell

She was amazing, ... Much better than I'd have been at 13. She danced and sang up a storm. I could never have done that.

She's very controversial. But she really has done a lot for the pop and dance scene. (Her music) always makes you want to dance somehow.

She's always dancing at the house and putting on a show so why not just put her in a show.

David Foster

I told Celine Dion not to record that 'Titanic' song. That's about as big as you can get. 'Flashdance?' I thought, 'Welder by day, disco dancer by night - who wants to see that?'

Francia Raisa

I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commercials and doing guest star roles. My first big thing, which happened maybe six months after being discovered, was 'Bring It On: All or Nothing.'

Fanny Howe

I was a go-go dancer at the Dom on East 10th Street in NYC. This was a glittering ballroom over Stanley's Bar. 1965.

Today, dancers have so much more information and are much more mobile. Kids are traveling everywhere to go to summer programs, funding themselves with Kickstarter - putting their dreams on the Internet and seeing if they will pan out.

Nigel Lythgoe

I trained in every form of dance - started as a tap dancer when I was a kid, then contemporary, ballet, ballroom, everything. Russian, Swedish.

Melissa Rosenberg

I remember when I was a dancer and I had to do this performance and I was really nervous about it, and I happened at that moment to go see 'Flashdance.' I mean, it's silly, but I walked out of that movie going 'what a feeling!' I walked out with confidence.