Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Austen

Fine dancing, I believe, like virtue, must be its own reward.

Jane Austen

Fine dancing, I believe like virtue, must be its own reward. Those who are standing by are usually thinking of something very different.

Jane Austen

To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.

Jane Austen

It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months successively without being at any ball of any description, and no material injury accrue either to body or mind.

Twyla Tharp

It is extremely arrogant and very foolish to think that you can ever outwit your audience.

Tom Holland

When I was young, my mom realized I could dance and hold a beat, and I really danced just for fun. It was good exercise.

Brian Eno

I describe things in terms of body movements. I dance a bit to describe what sort of movement it ought to make, and that's a good way of talking to musicians. Particularly bass players.

Bruce Forsyth

It's important for a dancer to wear very tight underpants. I used to feel a bit exposed if I wasn't being held up in the right place.

Antony Tudor

If I see a human body on the stage, I don't see it as an abstraction. I see it as a body.

Antony Tudor

I would like to tell all dancers to forget themselves and the desire for self display. They must become completely absorbed in the dance. Even in a classical variation there should never be any thought of a dancer doing a variation--he should become identified with it.

Brooke Langton

The actual cheerleaders in our film are all Broadway dancers.

Eckhart Tolle

Being one with life is being one with Now. You then realize that you don't live your life, but life lives you. Life is the dancer, and you are the Dance.

Billy Idol

Well there's nothing to lose And there's nothing to prove I'll be dancing with myself.

Billy Eichner

I'm not much of a dancer.

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.

Edward Lear

They dined on mince, and slices of quince, Which they ate with a runcible spoon; And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon.

Edward Lear

They danced by the light of the moon.

Bobby Orr

I'm a terrible dancer! Oh, I'm an awful dancer!

Bella Thorne

I was never a dancer before 'Shake It Up'.

Diana Vreeland

When I discovered dancing, I learned to dream.

Delta Burke

For me, it's like biking around the neighborhood, the walks and stuff, because I have never enjoyed the gym. Or I'll do, since I used to dance a lot, all the old dance exercises.

Lea Thompson

I had been a ballet dancer and never could make a living, and just being so excited that I got to, all of a sudden, live as an actor.

We always envisioned it to be a big dance production.

Edgar Degas

The Dance instills in you something that sets you apart. Something heroic and remote.

Ed Sheeran

If I ever have any back-up dancers, I want the penguins from Madagascar.

Elizabeth Berkley

No movie influenced me more to go after my dreams than 'Flashdance.' After seeing it, I took 15 dance lessons a week. I cut all my sweatshirts. I did the 'Maniac' thing.

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.

Dave Barry

Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.

Buddy Hackett

Don't carry a grudge. While you're carrying the grudge, the other guys's out there dancing.

Cesar Romero

I was out dancing with one actress or another. And that got press. Even when it didn't, the whole town knew I was a dancing fool, and since I couldn't very well dance with a man, they saw me dancing with a lady, and they assumed the rest.