Dance Quotes

‘The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.’ – Alan Watts

‘Never give a sword to a man who can’t dance.’ – Confucius

‘He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.’ – Friedrich Nietzsche

‘When my marriage broke up… I had just put on 45 pounds for my ‘Shall We Dance?’ character. I had to eat 10,000 calories a day just to put on weight while training with Tony Dovolani. I basically stayed in bed for a six-month rotation of depression naps. Dance helped me lose the weight.’ – Lisa Ann Walter

‘Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.’ – Rabindranath Tagore

‘Work like you don’t need the money. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like nobody’s watching.’ – Satchel Paige

‘The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses – behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.’ – Muhammad Ali

‘The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.’ – Neil Gaiman

‘Life is like dancing. If we have a big floor, many people will dance. Some will get angry when the rhythm changes. But life is changing all the time.’ – Don Miguel Ruiz

‘Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!’ – William Butler Yeats

‘But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.’ – Khalil Gibran

‘When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It’s to enjoy each step along the way.’ – Wayne Dyer

‘Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.’ – Carl Sandburg

‘If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution.’ – Emma Goldman

‘Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.’ – Martha Graham

‘Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.’ – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

‘I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.’ – e. e. cummings

‘If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.’ – George Bernard Shaw

‘The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.’ – Charles Baudelaire

‘The best thing about being a DJ is making people happy. There is nothing like seeing people get up from a table to dance or the expression on their face when they hear a song they love. I also love to educate people on music they have never heard.’ – Chelsea Leyland

‘Dance is for everybody. I believe that the dance came from the people and that it should always be delivered back to the people.’ – Alvin Ailey

‘The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God – if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That’s what I think.’ – Maya Angelou

‘Dance is certainly a sport, and they are phenomenal athletes, and they’re also artists.’ – Neve Campbell

‘I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.’ – Mikhail Baryshnikov

‘When movement isn’t enough, you dance, or when speaking isn’t enough, you sing. When it’s organic, and it’s earned like that in a musical, that’s when it works, and then there’s nothing like it because it’s this thing that takes you to a whole ‘nother level, you know?’ – Rob Marshall

‘Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy – your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself.’ – Annie Leibovitz

‘Live like you’ll die tomorrow, work like you don’t need the money, and dance like nobody’s watching.’ – Bob Fosse

‘The music we do is for people to enjoy, dance and sing to it. Dreamers – keep on dreaming and keep working hard to achieve your goals. There are many difficulties, but what matters is to stay focused and have perseverance.’ – Bad Bunny

‘To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.’ – Agnes de Mille

‘Dare, dream, dance, smile, and sing loudly! And have faith that love is an unstoppable force!’ – Suzanne Brockmann

‘The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.’ – Mata Hari

‘Let us read and let us dance – two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.’ – Voltaire

‘I grew up with six brothers. That’s how I learned to dance – waiting for the bathroom.’ – Bob Hope

‘Every time I dance, I’m trying to prove myself to myself.’ – Misty Copeland

‘Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.’ – Gustave Flaubert

‘I used to run a night club in Fort Myers, Florida called Norma Jean’s Dance Club. That was the hottest spot from Sarasota to Cuba.’ – Diamond Dallas Page

‘I believe it is in my nature to dance by virtue of the beat of my heart, the pulse of my blood and the music in my mind.’ – Robert Fulghum

‘Wives are people who feel they don’t dance enough.’ – Groucho Marx

‘I should be on Broadway. You have to sing, you have to dance, you have to speak well, and I’m good at all of those!’ – JoJo Siwa

‘I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words.’ – Ruth St. Denis

‘Disco is music for dancing, and people will always want to dance.’ – Giorgio Moroder

‘No sane man will dance.’ – Marcus Tullius Cicero

‘Music is an expression of individuality; it’s how you see the world. All art is, for that matter. You take how you experience the world, interpret it, and send it out there – express it – whether it’s sculpture, dance or singing.’ – David Sanborn

‘Youth theatre isn’t just about a precocious child that wants to sing and dance in front of people. It’s for everyone; it’s about a community, it’s about being supported by your peer group. You learn skills – not just acting but all the other sides – working in the TV, film, and theatre industry.’ – Sam Heughan

‘Opera is the ultimate art form. It has singing and music and drama and dance and emotion and story.’ – Diane Paulus

‘Years of drought and famine come and years of flood and famine come, and the climate is not changed with dance, libation or prayer.’ – John Wesley Powell

‘The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness.’ – James Gates Percival

‘When I was younger, I started taking singing lessons and dance and acting. I just started acting first because that’s how everything happened.’ – Lindsay Lohan

‘I danced a little as a kid here in Canada: in Ottawa at the Elite Dance Studio and at the Top Hat Dance School in Cornwall where I grew up. So I had some experience of having to learn routines.’ – Ryan Gosling

‘I cannot sing, dance or act; what else would I be but a talk show host.’ – David Letterman

‘March is a month without mercy for rabid basketball fans. There is no such thing as a ‘gentleman gambler’ when the Big Dance rolls around. All sheep will be fleeced, all fools will be punished severely… There are no Rules when the deal goes down in the final weeks of March. Even your good friends will turn into monsters.’ – Hunter S. Thompson

‘I don’t do well with snakes and I can’t dance.’ – Robin Williams

‘I like rock music that has melody, but it also makes you wanna get up and dance.’ – Albert Hammond, Jr.

‘I’m Jewish. I’ve always had a thing where it’s okay to dance with the devil, just don’t become the devil. Even at my peak, I never went too over the top.’ – Pauly Shore

‘There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation; and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration.’ – Lewis Carroll

‘If you want to release your aggression, get up and dance. That’s what rock and roll is all about.’ – Chuck Berry

‘Let us keep the dance of rain our fathers kept and tread our dreams beneath the jungle sky.’ – Arna Bontemps

‘Celebrate life in all its glory – challenge yourself to let the routine sing, and the new dance.’ – Maximillian Degenerez

‘You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.’ – Jiddu Krishnamurti

‘I’m a teller of stories. I put bloody skins on my back and dance around the fire, and I say what the hunt was like. It’s not erudite; it’s not intellectual. I sail, run dogs, ride horses, play professional poker, and tell stories about the stuff I’ve been through. And I’m still a romantic; I still want Bambi to make it out of the fire.’ – Gary Paulsen

‘Our feet are planted in the real world, but we dance with angels and ghosts.’ – John Cameron Mitchell

‘My mom thought I could dance because I used to dance to this Janet Jackson song she’d play when I was a baby. Then she would take me to a Saturday dance school. I used to go every week and got spotted by a scout, who suggested I audition for the role of Billy in ‘Billy Elliot the Musical.” – Tom Holland

‘You live as long as you dance.’ – Rudolf Nureyev

‘I was asked to act when I couldn’t act. I was asked to sing ‘Funny Face’ when I couldn’t sing, and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn’t dance – and do all kinds of things I wasn’t prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it.’ – Audrey Hepburn

‘Life has to be a roller coaster ride. Otherwise, what’s the point of living? Why should I make a song and dance about mine?’ – Dimple Kapadia

‘I think the impact my music has had on dance music fans is to bring out their inner love for dancing and having a good time.’ – Hardwell

‘We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.’ – Robert Frost

‘Yes, anybody can dance. Whether it is right or wrong, that doesn’t matter.’ – Prabhu Deva

‘I think Christmas is about celebration and come on, on the inside everyone wants to dance.’ – TobyMac

‘Art is a form of experience of the person, the place, the history of the people, and as black people, we are different. We hail from Africa to America, so the culture is mixed, from the African to the American. We can’t drop that. It’s reflected in the music, the dance, the poetry, and the art.’ – Faith Ringgold

‘I’m going to dance in all the galaxies.’ – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

‘The moment is everything. Don’t think about tomorrow; don’t think about yesterday: think about exactly what you’re doing right now and live it and dance it and breath it and be it.’ – Wendy Whelan

‘The tradition of the South is not urban… I think we are a region of storytellers, naturally, just from our tribal instincts. We did not have the pleasures of the theater or the dance, motion pictures when they came along. We simply entertain each other by talking.’ – Harper Lee

‘People tend to associate fairies with princesses, but they couldn’t be more different. Princesses have dynastic and domestic pressures, and they get parked on glass hills. Fairies don’t have families. They don’t clean or cook. They sip nectar from flowers and dance by the light of the moon.’ – Laura Amy Schlitz

‘Architecture, like dance, is also a language – one that everybody understands.’ – Santiago Calatrava

‘All music is dance music. But when people think of dance music, they think of techno or just house. Anything you can dance to is dance music. I don’t care if it’s classical, funk, salsa, reggae, calypso; it’s all dance music.’ – Afrika Bambaataa

‘I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.’ – Arthur Rimbaud

‘Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.’ – Ted Shawn

‘I don’t want anyone to fail, so if you can make money off music even though you can’t sing or dance, that’s genius.’ – Prince

‘I’m not a good dancer but Rap Monster is really terrible at it. The two of us are ultimate dance rivals.’ – Jin

‘It wasn’t until I found my tribe of artists – people who were outspoken and not afraid to say what they thought, whether in a song or a dance or a piece of classical music – that I found a refuge.’ – Cote de Pablo

‘I can’t dance. If I try, I’ll trip onstage.’ – Dua Lipa

‘I did swimming, gymnastics, dance, and the acting was just a small part. I didn’t have pushy parents; it wasn’t forced upon me. They just said, ‘See if you like it. If you do, great; if you don’t, don’t worry about it.’ I was really fortunate to have that guidance and supportive parents.’ – Aaron Taylor-Johnson

‘I have the feeling that a lot of poets writing now are – they sort of tap dance through it.’ – Mary Oliver

‘Those move easiest who have learn’d to dance.’ – Alexander Pope

‘Sometimes, you just have to clear your head and get out to see other things. It is very important to be nourished. I love to go to museums and galleries, I like to see theatre, film, dance – anything creative. It doesn’t promise you inspiration, but it nourishes your creative soul, and that’s good.’ – Marc Jacobs

‘Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up.’ – Rainn Wilson

‘Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.’ – Warren Bennis

‘You can be creative in anything – in math, science, engineering, philosophy – as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance.’ – Ken Robinson

‘Both political parties, Republicans and Democrats, are dependent on the same private interest groups for campaign funds, so both parties dance to the same masters.’ – Paul Craig Roberts

‘Making dance music is a spiritual thing. It’s about being completely absorbed by rhythm and vibration, so much so that the petty stuff of life stops mattering.’ – Sophie Hawley-Weld

‘What we want from modern dance is courage and audacity.’ – Twyla Tharp

‘The producers and writers of dance music are becoming the stars, not so much the DJs.’ – Kaskade

‘Dance has always been my passion, and I love it.’ – Madhuri Dixit

‘Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how you kill an emu, acted out in song or dance, or that Uncle George was eaten by a croc over there, don’t go there to swim, then those young people don’t have to find out by trial and error.’ – Margaret Atwood

‘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 dance to the beat of a different drummer.’ – RuPaul

‘Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.’ – Camille Paglia

‘We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.’ – Martha Graham

‘Arts education is a big part of building a 21st century creative mind, and I think that we have let way too many kids lose their way by not drawing in their young minds with music, dance, painting and the other various ways we can express those things we do not have words for.’ – Heather Watts

‘What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.’ – William Blake

‘That’s a traditional Samoan dance. I was lucky that I was able to fly my cousins, who are professional dancers, up from Hawaii and they were able to be in the movie with me. We had a great time.’ – Dwayne Johnson

‘My dad and his brothers were involved in amateur dramatics. From an early age, I was dragged along to rehearsals when they couldn’t get childcare. I was watching pensioners dance around in sweatpants, which was very traumatic for a young child.’ – Tom Glynn-Carney

‘I swear to God, if you saw me when I am by myself in the woods, I’m a lunatic. I sing, I dance.’ – Chris Evans

‘The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place.’ – Barbara De Angelis

‘I’m ready to take the world by storm and have them look at me and say, ‘Deaf people can dance.” – Nyle DiMarco

‘If you’re feeling blue, lock yourself in a room, stand in front of a mirror, and dance – and laugh at yourself and be sexy. Dance the silliest and ugliest you’ve ever danced. Make fun of yourself and try to recover your sense of humor.’ – Salma Hayek

‘I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman’s dance.’ – Abraham Lincoln

‘An action choreographer is kind of like a dance choreographer. You choreograph the moves and you let the director, cinematographer take into positioning their cameras.’ – Donnie Yen

‘Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance.’ – Dave Barry

‘A lot of people think I’m gay. I have really red lips, so they say I wear lipstick; they say my dance is very feminine, and a lot of people think I look like a girl. But that’s fine. I take the criticism positively.’ – Tiger Shroff

‘Sex in a dance is in the eyes of the beholder. I never thought my dances sexy. I suppose that’s because I see myself with my face washed, and to me I look like a rabbit.’ – Gwen Verdon

‘What’s wrong with the ‘Laffy Taffys’ and the Soulja Boys? We need fun records. We gotta have dance music. We gotta have club music. We gotta have kids’ music.’ – Pimp C

‘When I was growing up as a little girl and as a teenager, I loved designing and making dogs’ clothes and wanting to be a fashion designer. I took art and ceramics. I loved dance.’ – Mae Jemison

‘Acting is really a give-and-take; it’s a dance.’ – Anya Taylor-Joy

‘I’m not necessarily that big of a clubbing junkie, but I really like dance music as a genre.’ – Mika

‘I enjoy making people laugh. If I can put a smile on someone’s face if I do a dance in the end zone, why not?’ – Travis Kelce

‘Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step – it is an old business procedure.’ – Fran Lebowitz

‘Before dance came into my life, I don’t really remember having any major goals or dreams of wanting to be anything.’ – Misty Copeland

‘A DJ draws a connection between two seemingly disparate things and says, ‘Look, they are alike. You can dance to them.” – Kevin Young

‘My parents called me the WB frog. Because when I was onstage, I would do this whole song and dance, but if my parents had a family friend over, I would just go hide in the bedroom.’ – Brie Larson

‘There are some good traditions in our culture, one of which is that men dance with women. Soon we will reach the stage where we will all have to publicly apologise for being heterosexual.’ – Niki Lauda

‘We’re going through a kind of ancient, barbaric war dance now – it’s almost an ultimate in absurdity.’ – Clark M. Clifford

‘I still dance, probably three times a week, unless I’m working on a crazy job, and then I just don’t have any free time at all.’ – Summer Glau

‘Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn’t burn up any fossil fuel, doesn’t pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.’ – Margaret Mead

‘Disco told audiences to dance, while punk told them to be anything but passive. The artists didn’t mind; in fact, they encouraged it.’ – Elizabeth Flock

‘My life has been one great big joke, a dance that’s walked a song that’s spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.’ – Maya Angelou

‘Whenever I like a new song, I play it on loop and dance to it. That’s my therapy.’ – Alia Bhatt

‘When I dance, I forget everything else and just feel completely happy.’ – Katherine Jenkins

‘My mother-in-law said, ‘One day I will dance on your grave.’ I said ‘I hope you do; I will be buried at sea.” – Les Dawson

‘If you believe that your best years are behind you, you’ve guaranteed they are; I’m going to dance into that good night, with the oldies turned up loud.’ – Gina Barreca

‘I am not very comfortable about dancing at weddings and New Year parties. Maybe it’s because of the way I have been brought up; I wouldn’t want my family to feel that cringe moment. Dance is an art for me.’ – Deepika Padukone

‘I have ballet class every other day for two hours. And for ‘Six Feet Under’, last week there was a sequence where I had to do a whole choreographed dance number, so I had four hours of dance practice every day.’ – Michelle Trachtenberg

‘So many people can see my content and see that I dance and maybe it’ll draw them to my Instagram where I have longer clips of me and dance classes or improv.’ – Charli D’Amelio

‘Actors fall into this trap if they missed being loved for who they really were and not for what they could do – sing, dance, joke about – then they take that as love.’ – Gene Wilder

‘Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.’ – Erica Jong

‘I just like to hop up on the dance floor and do my thing.’ – Kyle Massey

‘Having a dance background, I became used to rejection at an early age. Dance is very competitive, especially for a sensitive person like me. But I realized it’s better not to take it so seriously. If you beat yourself up, it’s hard to keep going.’ – Dianna Agron

‘Dance is a universal language which allows you to express yourself without words and I think that is why everyone is so enamoured by dance.’ – Sanjeeda Sheikh

‘My father was the captain of a cargo ship. When I was about two years old, we used to sail with him. The crew of his ship would dress me up in fancy dress and make me dance for them. I was a performing monkey!’ – Jim Sarbh

‘I have not worked out my poems with a careful will, falling rather on haphazard and blind formulation of wordage, a more flowing concept, in a hope for a more new and lively path. I do personalize at times, but this only for the grace and elan of the dance.’ – Charles Bukowski

‘You cannot dance an arabesque in ‘Swan Lake’ and ‘Nutcracker’ the same way.’ – Natalia Makarova

‘In rap music, even though the element of poetry is very strong, so is the element of the drum, the implication of the dance. Without the beat, its commercial value would certainly be more tenuous.’ – Archie Shepp

‘I didn’t know how to dance, so I just jumped up and down and bashed people. Then everybody else started doin’ it, but they didn’t get it right, so I quit.’ – Sid Vicious

‘I love attention. If I see a gang of girls? That makes me dance even more!’ – Chris Brown

‘And I always say, when Southern people get on the dance floor, they ain’t getting off.’ – George Clinton

‘I always do like seeing other people dance in their cars. It’s one of the things that makes me happy.’ – Ariel Gore

‘People come to see beauty, and I dance to give it to them.’ – Judith Jamison

‘Ask anyone committed to Marxist analysis how many angels dance on the head of a pin, and you will be asked in return to never mind the angels, tell me who controls the production of pins.’ – Joan Didion

‘Martial arts is like dance. It’s so beautiful and what I love about the martial arts mostly is that what it basically says is you take their energy and you redirect it. Then if you need to, use it on them. That whole thing about redirecting energy I love.’ – Rutger Hauer

‘I started dating JD Samson from Le Tigre, and suddenly I was listening to more up-tempo music and old dance music, like ESG and Gang of Four, and I thought, ‘Wow. This is fun.” – Sia

‘I think the thing that we agreed to so many years ago, actually, was that the music didn’t have to support the dance nor the dance illustrate the music, but they could be two things going on at the same time.’ – Merce Cunningham

‘Sure, the first light snowfall may be a chance to dance giddily, leaving squeaky footprints through the neighborhood, marking the runner’s right to the domain. But later drubbings of snow merely complicate running. Snow turns to ice, to slush, to ice again. Tire ruts twist ankles. New snow hides the hazards.’ – Don Kardong

‘Have I ever had dance lessons? I’m mobile, but not nearly as much as our promotional videos lead people to believe.’ – Tobias Forge

‘I grew up on a mountain in Tennessee, and my brothers and I love to go to The Mountain Opry when we are home. There is alway an abundance of laughter and joy, and anyone can get up on stage and dance and sing. My family also goes to a candlelight service at church on Christmas Eve. It’s such a wonderful way to spend the night before Christmas.’ – Rachel Boston

‘I mean these people who work on Broadway, in my opinion, are the most gifted of everyone. I mean they really know how to dance. They really know how to act. They really know how to sing. They know how to perform.’ – Harry Connick, Jr.

‘One of my sisters was doing dance, and I’d watch from the back of the classroom in my trainers. Slowly, I started integrating myself into the fraught south Oxford ballet culture.’ – Jonathan Bailey

‘Dance has helped me overcome a lot of personal challenges. If I feel sad or depressed, I just go to the set and dance. It makes me feel alive.’ – Remo D’Souza

‘The rumba is the dance of love and lust.’ – Hannah Brown

‘Dance has always been my number one. I started when I was seven years old and I’ve had the opportunity to work with some really amazing artists.’ – Caity Lotz

‘The best beauty secret, besides sleep and plenty of water, is do whatever it is – before you go out, before you need to feel beautiful – do whatever makes you feel confident. If it’s putting on a great dance record and rocking out in your apartment, do it. If kissing someone for 10 minutes makes you feel confident, do it.’ – Aimee Mullins

‘Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life – learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.’ – Robert Fulghum

‘I love to watch people not care too much about the choreography, or if they sing perfectly, or if the right label people are there to watch them. It’s just about letting go and being crazy and engaging people in dance and madness – being a human instead of a doll.’ – MO

‘I think one thing you could probably say for all my albums is that they’re all pretty eclectic pop. There’s always a little bit of urban influence, some dance, a little bit of country, singer-songwriter, pop-rock. I like everything! On every album you can find that.’ – Kelly Clarkson

”Rent-a-tile’ means when you go to a dance hall, some people take the middle of the dance floor and do their thing.’ – Sean Paul

‘When a body moves, it’s the most revealing thing. Dance for me a minute, and I’ll tell you who you are.’ – Mikhail Baryshnikov

‘I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his ‘divine service.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

‘My brother had written ‘Ocean Eyes,’ and we recorded it, basing all of the production around contemporary and lyrical dance. I think of most songs that way – if you can’t dance to a song, it’s not a song.’ – Billie Eilish

‘I couldn’t play ball. I couldn’t dance. Luckily, the girls didn’t want me. Not much I could do about that. So I started to draw and to write. By the time I got to where I was attracting girls, I was already into work, and it was more important to me.’ – Shel Silverstein

‘One of my favorite things to do is to play music really loud and dance my butt off in the morning. I’ll do it alone in my apartment. You can’t have a bad day after that.’ – Allison Williams

‘My mother taught children to love to dance.’ – Abby Lee Miller

‘I was a dance major at NYU, but it wasn’t working out. I had friends in the drama department, so I switched.’ – Maura Tierney

‘Everybody recommends New Zealand. I really want to learn this haka, the traditional dance – I love it; it’s so cool.’ – Luka Sulic

‘Dance classes are not designed to be workouts – they’re designed to teach skill.’ – Anna Kaiser

‘Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.’ – Martha Graham

‘To be a great actor, you really don’t need to go to acting school or learn dance classes or work on your body. You have to be intelligent. You have to draw on a lot of emotions that you go through in life that you can tap into once you work on a set.’ – Ranbir Kapoor

‘Basically it starts with four months of training, just basic stretching, kicking and punching. Then you come to the choreography and getting ready to put the dance together.’ – Keanu Reeves

‘I had certain physical limitations that made me change the choreography for myself or made me more interested in choreography only rather than dancing. I have never been a person who wanted to just dance. I have always been interested in developing for other people.’ – Katherine Dunham

‘I have always been the first on the dance floor. Before fame, people thought it made me a good laugh; now, people point and call me an attention seeker! I’m very aware of the way people can view me, but I’m very aware that I have to just enjoy my life.’ – Jessie J

‘You never know when I might decide to work in a Bollywood film and do one of those dance numbers with the whole crew in the backdrop.’ – Brad Pitt

‘There’s just something about dance. It’s like a primal thing in all of us.’ – Patrick Swayze

‘Every savage can dance.’ – Jane Austen

‘I asked Fred Astaire once when he was about my age if he still danced, and he said ‘Yes, but it hurts now.’ That’s exactly it. I can still dance, too, but it hurts now!’ – Dick Van Dyke

‘Iranian parents can’t stop their children. They’re just wild – they want to party, they want their rights, they want to paint, they want to dance. No one can stop these new generations coming. That’s why Iran has to open up: it’s like a pot full of hot water, vapour and steam.’ – Golshifteh Farahani

‘Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia.’ – James Lovelock

‘Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.’ – Khalil Gibran

‘I really have to dance more often, and so I travel around. If I don’t, I will crumble.’ – Rudolf Nureyev

‘I’ve always wanted to introduce hip-hop filmmaking to film. There’s hip-hop art, dance, music, but there really isn’t hip-hop film. So I was trying to do that.’ – Darren Aronofsky

‘Indian classical dance is sustained by a profound philosophy. Form seeks to merge with the formless, motions seek to become a part of the motionless, and the dancing individual seeks to become one with the eternal dance of the cosmos.’ – Nita Ambani

‘Joyce for all his devotion to his art, terrible in its austerity, was a lad born with a song on one side of him, a dance on the other; two gay guardian angels every human ought to have.’ – Sean O’Casey

‘When I have bad days, I just eat lots of chocolate ice cream and dance to the ‘Lion King’ soundtrack. It’s really odd, but it’s true.’ – Blake Lively

‘If some actress thinks she is sexy and she can dance, it’s her choice. I do what I want to do, and I set my own benchmark. I will never compare myself with anyone.’ – Preity Zinta

‘They’re not particular about whether you’re playing a flatted fifth or a ruptured 129th as long as they can dance to it.’ – Dizzy Gillespie

‘There is a fluency and an ease with which true mastery and expertise always expresses itself, whether it be in writing, whether it be in a mathematical proof, whether it be in a dance that you see on stage, really in every domain. But I think the question is, you know, where does that fluency and mastery come from?’ – Angela Duckworth

‘I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.’ – e. e. cummings

‘We want to be the band to dance to when the bomb drops.’ – Simon Le Bon

‘If I had a rain prayer or a rain dance I could do, I would do it.’ – Tom Vilsack

‘The Republican National Convention is a great place to hear people talk about politics and values and all that sort of thing. But there’s one thing brings me back year after year, and that’s white people dancing. The RNC is the world’s premier Caucasian amateur dance festival.’ – Jimmy Kimmel

‘I grew up in Atlanta, Georgia, and I honestly started performing for my family when I was around three. I would jump up on the coffee table and I would get in the closet and ask that they introduce me to come out, and from that point on, my mother stuck me in dance class and children’s theater.’ – Erika Jayne

‘All my dance moves are improv. I just make them up on the spot.’ – Post Malone

‘I’d say, in some ways, I’m very Bengali. I have a love of the arts – dance, music, visual arts – which I think is a very Bengali trait. I also love food, which I know is very Bengali!’ – Tiya Sircar

‘My mom put me in this extracurricular dance class when I was a kid. And so I think that just started the creative part of my brain. That’s what activated that.’ – Ncuti Gatwa

‘Sometimes I wish I was just a girl in an indie band. I could dance around on stage and it wouldn’t be so much about me.’ – Lily Allen

‘I’d studied dance in Chicago every summer end taught it all winter, and I was well-rounded. I wasn’t worried about getting a job on Broadway. In fact, I got one the first week.’ – Gene Kelly

‘I love to dance, so I’m definitely always the first one out on the dance floor. And when it comes to guys, I don’t get shy. So if I wasn’t with a date, I wouldn’t have a problem going up to a guy and just saying, ‘Are you gonna dance with me?’ Trust me, it’ll work for you too! Guys like it when you aren’t afraid to make the first move.’ – Kylie Jenner

‘While we dance in the streets and pat ourselves on the back for being a nation great enough to reach beyond racial divides to elect our first African-American president, let us not forget that we remain a nation still proudly practicing prejudice.’ – Harvey Fierstein

‘Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance… poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.’ – Ezra Pound

‘I was drawn to bakery and pastry. It’s the same discipline you employ in dance – you take the instruction, and you keep on practicing, seeking perfection. You never achieve it, but you strive.’ – Ron Ben-Israel

‘How can we know the dancer from the dance? – William Butler Yeats’ – William Butler Yeats

‘I see dance as glue for a community.’ – Twyla Tharp

‘Denis Law could dance on eggshells.’ – Bill Shankly

‘When I was really young, my mom enrolled me in dance classes.’ – Jeff Bridges

‘String theory has the potential to show that all of the wondrous happenings in the universe – from the frantic dance of subatomic quarks to the stately waltz of orbiting binary stars; from the primordial fireball of the big bang to the majestic swirl of heavenly galaxies – are reflections of one, grand physical principle, one master equation.’ – Brian Greene

‘I was a warm-up DJ for many years so I know how to build a crowd, what record goes with the next, it’s all about understanding the dance floor and how the energy and flow should go coordinating to what the crowd want or might need.’ – Hardwell

‘As I grew up, I learned what worked for me. That’s where the short dresses came from. And you can’t dance in a long dress.’ – Tina Turner

‘Dance music doesn’t care where you live. It doesn’t care who your friends are. It doesn’t care how much money you make. It doesn’t care if you’re 74 or if you are 24 because… 74 is the new 24!’ – Giorgio Moroder

‘Dance was my escape from reality.’ – Cheryl Burke

‘I can remember just learning to walk and trying to dance like Elvis and sing like Elvis, so I was very, very passionate about music at a very young age.’ – Drake Bell

‘I couldn’t contain my excitement when I was invited to judge Dance Vs Dance.’ I’ve followed the series closely and am thrilled to be a part of this magnificent show.’ – Shamna Kasim

‘But I’m tone deaf – window-shattering tone deaf. I can’t sing for the life of me. I can’t sing or dance, so no remake of ‘Grease’ for me!’ – Dev Patel

‘I dance because I have to, because I’m so passionate about it.’ – Paula Abdul

‘I like to put on a wig or a fake mustache and do something silly with friends, do a little dance.’ – Tom Lenk

‘My mom and dad used to call me ‘full drama’. Mom had many videos of me as a kid where I was doing some dance moves, and suddenly the next moment, I was on the floor.’ – Janhvi Kapoor

‘People think I like to expose my body. But I don’t. It’s just because the dance moves require it.’ – Shakira

‘The reason I think the shows I do are successful with a wider public is because they tap into something that’s beyond dance and is about being told a story. That’s what people want.’ – Matthew Bourne

‘I had been coming to New York, pretty much once a month, to dance on Broadway. I was offered a huge Broadway show but couldn’t do it because my brother was having his huge Bar Mitzvah.’ – Sami Gayle

‘In Puerto Rico we dance to everything.’ – Bad Bunny

‘I love the smaller clubs. I love the theaters. I love the festivals. There are things I don’t like. At certain theaters, people can’t get up and dance.’ – Sharon Jones

‘I can’t sing or dance.’ – Joel Edgerton

‘When I was a kid in Woking, every week you went to the football dance, and every week the top kids would be wearing something different. You were constantly trying to catch up with them – which you could never do because, by the time you’d saved up enough to buy the item, they’d moved on to something else. That’s the whole Mod thing, I suppose.’ – Paul Weller

‘I think of action as a dance. It’s a riddle; it should have emotion in it.’ – Wong Kar-wai

‘I love to dance. I think it’s so much fun! I love classic Motown, hip-hop, pop, whatever has a good beat and is uplifting.’ – Scott Foley

”The Asylum Dance’ was written after I’d moved back to Scotland and was a response to moving to my old home area of Fife.’ – John Burnside

‘My uncle, who gave me my first turntables when I was ten, also gave me records to mix, but I never understood house music. I thought it was boring until I was old enough to go to a club and feel it, the fact that it actually makes you just want to dance.’ – Jamie xx

‘Once you see dance as a weapon – and everyone has a different weapon – it makes dance really interesting.’ – Jon M. Chu

‘I had to dance topless for two years to make cash to pay my bills and save some money. But it was very enlightening, by the way. I’m talking about light from the gutter.’ – Susan Powter

‘As a 6-foot, 6-inch, 300-pound black man, I’ve done everything I can to stay out of that box that Hollywood tries to put me in. I’ve been able to play a variety of roles, like the character of Vern in ‘Shall We Dance?’ with Richard Gere and Jennifer Lopez to the character of Neal in ‘Things We Lost in the Fire.’ I’ve been blessed.’ – Omar Benson Miller

‘Are the Democrats going to dance the mandate Macarena?’ – Dan Rather

‘I love writing but hate starting. The page is awfully white, and it says, ‘You may have fooled some of the people some of the time, but those days are over, giftless. I’m not your agent, and I’m not your mommy; I’m a white piece of paper. You wanna dance with me?’ and I really, really don’t. I’ll go peaceable-like.’ – Aaron Sorkin

‘I’d never dance at school discos, I couldn’t believe people could show themselves like that.’ – Limmy

‘Tough guys don’t dance. You had better believe it.’ – Norman Mailer

‘Talent will only take you so far, and it is your ability to feel the music and explore a movement that will bring you the greatest pleasure in dance.’ – Karen Kain

‘You can have energy in music and dance to it but still have soul.’ – Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo

‘I haven’t tried my favorite dance – the Argentine tango – with Vernon yet. I’m sure there would be a lot of toe stamping going on!’ – Tess Daly

‘Musical shows are really popular because there are lots of talented kids out there that can sing and dance.’ – Justin Chambers

‘I took several years of dance lessons that included ballet, tap and jazz. They helped a great deal with body control, balance, a sense of rhythm, and timing.’ – Lynn Swann

‘My daughter’s absolute go-to is Sasha Banks. However, we did do the ‘Dance Break’ one time in Chicago, so she keeps talking about Carmella.’ – Mustafa Ali

‘My father and his brothers and sisters were childhood Irish jig champions in the Bronx. At our family celebrations, they all get out and do the jig. And of course, the younger generation, me and my cousins and my brothers, we have our own Americanized renditions of the Irish jig, which is a bit more like ‘Lord of the Dance.” – Zach McGowan

‘I like to dance and sing when there’s no one around, but, if I’m out, I’m really shy about it. So it takes a lot to get me going, but I enjoy being around music.’ – Derek Jeter

‘I feel like Eurovision is a parallel dimension. It reminds me of ‘Dance Fever’ and ‘Solid Gold’ when I was a kid. Then when you hear these songs sung in English by someone who may or may not understand the words, the unique awesomeness hits you.’ – Seamus Dever

‘We all face crossroads in our lives where we can retreat into ourselves, or we can hit the dance floor.’ – Sebastian Lelio

‘Bhangra is a beautiful dance form slowly making its place in the mainstream dance forms worldwide.’ – Neha Bhasin

‘Movement is expressive. I’ve never denied that. I don’t think there’s such a thing as abstract dance.’ – Merce Cunningham

‘There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.’ – Warren Bennis

‘I used to dance all day, every day.’ – Arlene Phillips

‘I used to be on dance team in high school; it was called drill team in Texas. And when I started doing theater sophomore year, I had to make a decision which thing I was gonna follow. It was a big shift because I sort of had all these friends on dance squad, and when I started to do theater, my whole identity shifted.’ – Stephanie Beatriz

‘You have to dance unencumbered. There’s no other way to move. The idea of dance is freedom. It is not exclusiveness, it’s inclusiveness.’ – Judith Jamison

‘For me, the importance in learning about the dance is using it as a voice. It’s not about a step, it’s about a way to express oneself.’ – Savion Glover

‘And we love to dance, especially that new one called the Civil War Twist. The Northern part of you stands still while the Southern part tries to secede.’ – Dick Gregory

‘Dance has definitely made me a better role model.When I’m performing, I’m always thinking about my face and my look. I used to have a much harder time with it.’ – Maddie Ziegler

‘There’s music to dance to and make love to, music to cry to. I’m starting from scratch, coming fresh. But my sound still embodies the same soulful, intricate harmonies.’ – El DeBarge

‘The discipline that ballet requires is obsessive. And only the ones who dedicate their whole lives are able to make it. Your toenails fall off and you peel them away and then you’re asked to dance again and keep smiling. I wanted to become a professional ballet dancer.’ – Penelope Cruz

‘What I’ve always loved about gymnastics and one of the many reasons I love watching it now is the combination of skill and freedom it has – the discipline and expression – letting you dance.’ – Gwendoline Christie

‘I have no desire to prove anything by dancing. I have never used it as an outlet or a means of expressing myself. I just dance. I just put my feet in the air and move them around.’ – Fred Astaire

‘I think ‘Main Hoon Na’ is like the comeback of a Manmohan Desai film. Farah Khan made you laugh, cry and dance.’ – Suniel Shetty

‘The web of life is a beautiful and meaningless dance. The web of life is a process with a moving goal. The web of life is a perfectly finished work of art right where I am sitting now.’ – Robert Anton Wilson

‘My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.’ – Carlos Santana

”The Firebird’ just symbolizes a lot for me and my career. It was one of the first really big principal roles that I was ever given an opportunity to dance with American Ballet Theatre, and it was a huge step for the African-American community, I think, within the classical ballet world.’ – Misty Copeland

‘I did a dance with Fred Astaire in the movie ‘Bandwagon.’ I got to waltz just from left of camera to right of camera, and I’m taller than Fred Astaire. Fortunately, I was wearing a long skirt, so I waltzed with bended knees.’ – Julie Newmar

‘I’ve always been just as interested in making people think as I am in making them feel, and one of the things this scientific process allows me to do is make the audience look differently at dance.’ – Wayne McGregor

‘If you don’t go to a dance, you can never be rejected, but you’ll never get to dance, either.’ – Maeve Binchy

‘Getting up to dance to your own stuff looks pretty pretentious. And leaving the dancefloor when it comes on is just awkward.’ – Sophie Ellis-Bextor

‘When I started recording, I thought I’d be able to do all kinds of records: jazz, country, dance – and I’ve always wanted to do a gospel album.’ – Tom Jones

‘I love to dance in the disco, but that’s about it.’ – Heather Mills

‘I’d rather fight a buzzsaw than dance.’ – Johnny Depp

‘You can be very efficient with lyrics, and you can get the heart fluttering or soaring or make someone cry with a really amazing dance song.’ – Kylie Minogue

‘House music is the root of all electronic dance music.’ – Little Louie Vega

‘As a guitar player, I’ve been influenced by dance music – it was Crystal Method and The Prodigy back in the day. I would listen to those textures and try to approximate them on the electric guitar.’ – Tom Morello

‘My mom put me in dance classes when I was 5 years old.’ – Danny Pudi

‘Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It’s a miracle, and the dance is a celebration of that miracle.’ – Martha Graham

‘I was able to actually combine dance and acting, which was a dream come true.’ – Alicia Vikander

‘My heart has always been in more up-tempo music you can dance to.’ – Jordan Knight

‘But from the time I was very little, it was something I would do all the time, just sing, dance and act. So it wasn’t something that was fake or contrived as I got older.’ – Jennifer Lopez

‘I was a dancer for many years. I was a premier dancer with ‘Porgy and Bess,’ the opera. And I taught dance some, in different places.’ – Maya Angelou

‘My first gigs were at university: I’d dress up as Jesus, jump off a cross and dance to a Mick Jagger song. I don’t know if it was funny or not, but it was a start.’ – Noel Fielding

‘All cultures through all time have constantly been engaged in a dance with new possibilities for life. Change is the one constant in human history.’ – Wade Davis

‘When we did ‘Air Dance,’ I thought we were actually quite courageous doing that because it’s not necessarily quote-unquote a Black Sabbath song. But I don’t give a damn about that because it is part of Black Sabbath; it is a Black Sabbath song.’ – Bill Ward

‘Every great dance company, even when it seems poised in perfect balance, needs constant renewal of both repertory and performers.’ – Robert Gottlieb

”They Don’t Care About Us’ by Michael Jackson – This song makes me want to dance, and I fell in love with it watching ‘This Is It’ with my kids.’ – Summer Sanders

‘Use the creative process – singing, writing, art, dance, whatever – to get to know yourself better.’ – Catie Curtis

‘I would like to go and dance in Palestine one day, with great pleasure, great pleasure.’ – Mikhail Baryshnikov

‘I would love to visit Brazil. It’s one place I have not been. One of my dreams is to dance with the Carnival girls. I would love to experience a whole night of partying with them.’ – Shanola Hampton

‘As far as favorite tunes, ‘You Know You Know’ is one, and why it is important is difficult to say. The rhythmic cycle is very interesting and challenging to play, since it can be considered three bars of 4/4 or four bars of 3/4. ‘The Dance of Maya’ is another, and I have to mention ‘Sanctuary.” – John McLaughlin

‘My song in ‘Vaastav’ was my debut dance number.’ – Kashmira Shah

‘Nature, God, Buddha – someone has given me this health. I can break dance still; I can run; I can play basketball. In my mind, I can do anything. As long as I have that spirit, I’m going to keep doing it.’ – James Hong

‘I really enjoyed watching a ballerina named Denise Dabrowski who used to dance at California Ballet. She was a beautiful ballerina and role model for a lot of young dancers.’ – Justin Peck

‘The juke joint, the honky tonk, and the ballroom also represent one more thing, anthropologically speaking: a ceremonial context for the male-with-female-duet dance flirtation and embrace, upon which the zoological survival of the human species has always been predicated.’ – Albert Murray

‘Architecture is a wrapping for the human body, and dance is the finest expression of the body.’ – Santiago Calatrava

‘The most unusual thing about Clinton as a pol is that he listens. Listens and remembers. If he does dance with them that brung him, not them that gave him big money, we will have a populist on our hands.’ – Molly Ivins

‘It used to be said that when the Baal Shem Tov came into a town, his impact was so strong, he didn’t have to speak. His disciples had to dance or to sing or to preach to have the same effect. I think a real messenger, myself or anyone, by the very fact that he is there as a person, as a symbol, could have the same impact.’ – Elie Wiesel

‘Music and dance is universal, and I want to break borders and represent.’ – Nora Fatehi

‘I’m very interested in dance, and I’m very interested in how people express themselves through movement. And of course, cinema is a kinetic art form. It’s almost the point of cinema – it’s time-based and movement-based.’ – Joe Wright

‘True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learn’d to dance.’ – Alexander Pope

‘The Royal Academy of Dance is an institution that trains to a very high standard.’ – Darcey Bussell

‘I’m living in New York, getting paid to do what I love. I get to boss people around, wear a fancy costume, dance with beautiful mermaids, and meet my fans every night at the stage door. I’m loving it.’ – Drew Seeley

‘Dance is just like film in that it allows for thoughts in movement.’ – Twyla Tharp

‘That’s what I love about dance. It makes you happy, fully happy.’ – Debbie Reynolds

‘All of the punk-rock bands of the era would come in and play, and my job on Punk Rock Night was that I would go into the slam pit, and… I was 24 or 25, and I’d slam dance in the pit.’ – William Forsythe

‘For me, dance is about the aesthetics and the hard work that goes into creating something so beautiful. Motivation and dedication to the craft is what pushes me to do my best, to always strive to do better, and the outcome is always worth it.’ – Yuan Yuan Tan

‘Many of the writers I admire – Melville, Dickinson, Kafka – were virtually invisible during their lifetimes. Art, I think, often has to dance around in the void.’ – Jerome Charyn

‘In Hungary all native music, in its origin, is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance.’ – Franz Liszt

‘I had learnt Kathak for six years from the age of eight and did a foundation course from Kathak Kendra in Delhi. I was not fond of classical dance, but today, I’m glad my mom made me do it.’ – Kriti Sanon

‘What I mean by being real is just when you are doing dance celebrations, sports celebrations, like the cooking dance or anything like that. When you’re an artist, you want to always try your best to do the homework and see where it originated from.’ – Lil B

‘When we moved base to Mumbai, I was noticed by Terence Lewis, who offered me a scholarship from his dance foundation. That is when doors opened up for me.’ – Shakti Mohan

‘I love doing Pilates and dance. It’s fun to mix things up and change your program every ten days.’ – Lily Aldridge

‘From his roots as a slave, the American Negro – sometimes sorrowing, sometimes jubilant but always hopeful – has touched, illuminated, and influenced the most remote preserves of world civilisation. I and my dance theater celebrate this trembling beauty.’ – Alvin Ailey

‘There was a joke in Czechoslovakia: The Communist Party dance, it’s one step forward, two steps backward, and everyone is still clapping.’ – Martina Navratilova

‘I grew up dancing, and for a while in college, I was a gym rat. I finally realized… I’m going to create a little more balance in my life and make exercise something that I enjoy doing. So I went back to dance when I started doing more musical theatre, and I’ve just found that it’s the best thing that works for my body.’ – Christine Lakin

”ABCD’ is an out-and-out dance film. I also dance in the film. I must say you would see better dancers than me in this film. It was very tough for me to match their steps.’ – Prabhu Deva

‘Doing the Best I Can’ is a sure fire hit. Incredibly commercial. But what could you say about it? Catchy and good to dance to. But ‘Nothing Rhymes’ is different. A much bigger risk but it was lyrics people could talk about. So that was the one to launch me on.’ – Gilbert O’Sullivan

‘Not comfortable doing song and dance stuff as no normal person does in his/her real life.’ – Barun Sobti

‘Doing the sword fighting is like picking up a dance routine… I think dancing really helps with the picking up of it.’ – Maisie Williams

‘Trance is a very emotional and uplifting form of dance music. It appeals to many people in this way having such a strong connection with emotions. It makes people happy and ready to party.’ – Tiesto

‘My mom has always said that you have to do other things besides going to school, other extracurricular activities, so she made me do everything from basketball to, well, you name it. But for some reason, dance was the thing I always wanted to go and do.’ – Cheryl Burke

‘So many people think of me as a character on TV, but first and foremost, my passion is teaching dance and creating employable, working dancers.’ – Abby Lee Miller

‘Charlie Christian played amplified guitar with Benny Goodman’s quartet. He was the greatest guitar player that ever was. But he never looked up from the guitar. But I put a little dance to it. They appreciate seein’ something along with hearin’ something.’ – Chuck Berry

‘A lot of Utah State when I was there, there was a lot of California guys. So, you get a lot of Cali music, you got a lot of dance music, I think the Jerk was popular back then. It was a lot of the music that you can dance to with your teammates. A lot of hip-hop, rap, R&B, it was really fun. It was live in there.’ – Bobby Wagner

‘I am a member of the Kiowa Gourd Dance Society; I visit sacred places such as Devil’s Tower and the Medicine Wheel. These places are important to me, because they’ve been made sacred by sacrifice, by the investment of blood and experience and story.’ – N. Scott Momaday

‘I watched a lot of soap operas like ‘General Hospital’ and ‘Days Of Our Lives.’ When it came to movies, my parents were quite strict. They would watch ‘Flash Dance’ but wouldn’t let us see the whole film because Jennifer Beals’ character was a stripper. It was so funny when I finally saw the whole film. I thought she was a ballerina!’ – Rachel McAdams

‘I don’t want to be Mr. Romantic Leading Man. I don’t want to be the Dance Dude. I don’t want to be the Action Guy. If I had to do any one of those all my life, it’d drive me crazy.’ – Patrick Swayze

‘I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.’ – Friedrich Nietzsche

‘Visualization – it’s been huge for me. Your mind doesn’t know the difference between imagination and reality. You can’t always practice perfectly – my fingers will play a little bit out of tune, or my dance moves might not be as sharp – but in my mind, I can practice perfectly.’ – Lindsey Stirling

‘I was actually the head of the violin after-school club. And then I was also the head of the dance club, the popping club. So one day, just by coincidence, we had to hold the two clubs at the same time. I had to go back and forth. And that’s when the idea came up for dancing and playing violin at the same time.’ – Henry Lau

‘My first memories of music are of my mother playing Dominican music in the house because my parents love to dance. They love to throw parties and dance, so there was a lot Latin music in the house.’ – Cyrille Aimee

‘I think I can take responsibility for that in that I was the audience. I was the voice of sanity around whom all these crazies did their dance. And I reacted in the same way that a member of the audience would have reacted.’ – Mary Tyler Moore

‘Telling people that I wanted to make dance music, or be on the radio, they looked at me like I was crazy because there was nothing like that in Lichtenstein when I was getting started. That’s why I went to Germany, because there is industry there.’ – Al Walser

‘People who don’t have gender dysphoria aren’t going to catch it by watching me dance on television.’ – Chaz Bono

‘I want to make people dance, I want to make people smile, and I want my music to get played in clubs.’ – Mabel

‘I never danced a step in my life so naturally. My first motion picture was a musical, and Bob Fosse was the choreographer. I didn’t exactly dance for Fosse, I just did the best that I could to do what he taught us to do.’ – Dick York

‘So, it becomes an exercise in futility if you write something that does not express the film as the director wishes. It’s still their ball game. It’s their show. I think any successful composer learns how to dance around the director’s impulses.’ – Danny Elfman

‘I have never had a lap dance in Tampa or any other part of Florida. If I ever did have a lap dance, I don’t think I would be discussing television ideas with the girl that was giving it to me.’ – Stan Lee

‘When I design a wedding dress with a bustle, it has to be one the bride can dance in. I love the idea that something is practical and still looks great.’ – Vera Wang

‘Part of the joy of dancing is conversation. Trouble is, some men can’t talk and dance at the same time.’ – Ginger Rogers

‘I’ve performed in Japan before, as well as many other non-English speaking countries. I find you really just have to be a bit more animated than usual. Call-and-response routines work well, if they are simple. Otherwise, I just dance around like a circus monkey and hope the crowd feels it.’ – Aesop Rock

‘Dance kind of was always just a part of my natural state as a child. It’s something that, whenever music was playing, I was dancing.’ – Misty Copeland

‘I love to dance.’ – Joni Mitchell

‘There are very few dance companies in the world and you have to be phenomenal. You have to not be injured. You have to have a really strong mind to deal with the dance world. People who can do it are amazing to me. You cannot have a life outside of dance.’ – Neve Campbell

‘People strangely revere dance. They see it as another world, and dancers are somehow mysterious – just because they don’t speak.’ – Matthew Bourne

‘Intimate scenes are like dance rehearsals – it’s all choreography.’ – Rege-Jean Page

‘I wouldn’t even say I’m really good at dancing, I’d just say I’m not shy to movement. At a young age, people would laugh at me moving. None of it looked like it should have been called a dance move. But it was just me being goofy.’ – Travis Kelce

‘I had to do a tango with Raft and I learned to dance in ballet shoes with my knees bent.’ – Marie Windsor

‘I am not a dancer and for me, to learn the art is fun. It gives you the confidence that you can dance.’ – Siddharth Shukla

‘People just want to dig; they want to dance. They don’t want to work all through the night, and neither do I. I like getting ‘out there,’ but communication should be occurring on more levels than heavy-laden philosophical.’ – Kurt Elling

‘Usually in church, when the congregation is overcome by the Holy Spirit for a moment, the people will interrupt the sermon to yell their praises, and dance for joy.’ – Daniel Caesar

‘I liked writing, I liked performing, but I couldn’t sing or dance.’ – Taylor Tomlinson

‘Beyonce was very shy around children, and one of the reasons we put her in dance classes was so she’d have some little kid friends.’ – Tina Knowles

‘One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can’t swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it’s what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance.’ – Maya Angelou

‘Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.’ – Gustave Flaubert

‘We no longer sing and dance. We don’t know how to. Instead, we watch other people sing and dance on the television screen. Christmas, which was once a festival of active enjoyment, has turned into a binge of purely passive pleasures.’ – Tom Hodgkinson

‘I understood that synergistic dance between photographer and object – ‘muse,’ if you will, ‘model,’ whatever you call us. It’s that silent language of communication, like being psychic with each other.’ – Carmen Dell’Orefice

‘After the horse dance was over, it seemed that I was above the ground and did not touch it when I walked.’ – Black Elk

‘People want me to be so full of shame that I used to dance. I would never be ashamed of it. I made a lot of money. I had a good time, and it showed me a lot.’ – Cardi B

‘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.’ – Ben Vereen

‘I trained in martial arts and wanted to become a UFC fighter. That was my goal. I only really learned how to dance three weeks prior to making ‘Step Up Revolution.’ Dancing will always be fun, but MMA is something I’ll never give up. I will eventually get back in the octagon and be fighting professionally again.’ – Ryan Guzman

‘We’ve matured musically, as well as in the way we think. We’ve also developed a higher sense of responsibility. This has refined us and these developments are really being reflected in our music and our dance.’ – J-Hope

‘The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.’ – Martha Graham

‘Dance is a great way to express yourself.’ – Darcey Bussell

‘I’ve danced my whole life. Martial arts is just fun for me, it’s all choreographed a bit like dance. I have done Muay Thai and Wushu, which is cool because it’s very fluid dance. I also do Tricking. It’s kind of like Taekwondo with the big kicks and flips and showier aspects of martial arts.’ – Caity Lotz

‘Our ancient forebears who learned to synchronize the movements of dance were those with the capacity to predict what others around them were going to do and signal to others what they wanted to do next. These forms of communication may well have helped lead to the formation of larger human communities.’ – Daniel Levitin

‘I had a little radio next to the bed and I’d just listen to the top 10 – I mean, it was crap but I was young – and I would get up in the dark with the moon coming in through the window and I would just dance in my pajamas in the dark to the top 10. I didn’t have a CD player… so it was kind of all I had, you know?’ – Aldous Harding

‘I had to wear very high heels and dance in ‘Aashiq Banaya Apne,’ and that’s very difficult.’ – Urvashi Rautela

‘I think I can beat Usher on the dance floor.’ – Chris Brown

‘For cardio, I do SoulCycle. I really don’t like to run, plus I have terrible knees and get bored on the elliptical. SoulCycle is basically a dance party on a bicycle, and you burn calories, and it’s so fun.’ – Allison Williams

‘I dance because it makes me want to explode.’ – Bill Evans

‘I can dance to just about anything.’ – Bad Bunny

‘The gym was my only refuge. I could put music on and dance around with my girlfriends and be silly.’ – Khloe Kardashian

‘Any kind of dance or house, remix type music, I really love that. That will really pump me up. I really love anything Beyonce – honestly, that would pump me up.’ – Ali Krieger

‘I remember rap music. We used to party and dance off of it. Today it’s all about a whole different angle… Rappers are going against each other, and it’s more of a bragging, boasting thing.’ – Flavor Flav

‘If it doesn’t make me dance, I don’t want to put it out.’ – Ava Max

‘Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.’ – Alexander Pope

‘And that’s one thing that helps me is I learn it blandly, vanilla, then I don’t try to act it too soon because you start to act it, and you kind of go away from what the next sentence is, what the next paragraph is. So get it down so it kind of can – it’s in there so you can then, as I call it, dance on top of it.’ – Jeff Daniels

‘Being tall is very good for reaching high shelves and seeing in a crowd. Sadly, it has also given me the inability to dance. There’s too much of me to look neat, which is most disappointing.’ – Miranda Hart

‘I wanted to do new things with dance, adapt it to the motion picture medium.’ – Gene Kelly

‘I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way.’ – Sydney Pollack

‘When it comes to choreography practice, the rest of the five members learn from the dance instructor while Rap Monster and I are excluded from the group and end up learning the moves in the corner.’ – Jin

‘When I auditioned for ‘Bye Bye Birdie’ on Broadway, Gower Champion said, ‘You’ve got the job!’ I said, ‘Mr. Champion, I can’t dance.’ He said, ‘We’ll teach you what you need to know.” – Dick Van Dyke

‘We’ve all tried to bunk our gym session or dance class. A single routine can get monotonous. That’s why I have decided to make my fitness regime fun by incorporating different workouts into my schedule. From dancing to yoga, I plan to keep it as interesting as possible so I’m never bored of working out.’ – Disha Patani

‘I like to dance around the house when I’m getting ready. It gets my day going.’ – Carrie Underwood

‘Like it or not, there are a lot of dance teachers in this country who respect me, whether they personally like me or not.’ – Abby Lee Miller

‘I’m attracted to soccer’s capacity for beauty. When well played, the game is a dance with a ball.’ – Eduardo Galeano

‘My mother Naseem Bano who was called the first ‘Pari Chehra’ or beauty queen of the film industry, had taken me to London after she saw me taking fancy to her ghaghra, lipstick and dance to the tunes of her film songs. For her, academics were more important than films.’ – Saira Banu

‘My old dance teacher, Jimmy Wilde, a former European ballroom dancing champion, was so sophisticated.’ – Anton du Beke

‘What’s the most fetching thing that provokes people? A volcano? Fountains that dance? A pirate ship that sinks? Some other animated device or presentation? Is that as strong as mystery? Allure, intrigue, is much more powerful… It taunts you.’ – Steve Wynn

‘Degas was obsessed by the art of classical ballet, because to him it said something about the human condition. He was not a balletomane looking for an alternative world to escape into. Dance offered him a display in which he could find, after much searching, certain human secrets.’ – John Berger

‘Dance music has no gender, class or creeds.’ – Hardwell

‘Most of my dance moves have kung fu in them.’ – Sisqo

‘I prefer to talk about our problems, to be proud of them, in place of trying to hide them. Because you can’t. And I prefer to dance, to smile on it, to laugh on it.’ – Stromae

‘I was captain of the pom-pom team, which was still dance, but we were athletes. We trained on the track and did workouts every single day after school.’ – Mya

‘I’m interested in putting something on stage that will have a very wide appeal without being condescending; that will reach an audience and make it part of the dance; that will get everybody in the theater.’ – Alvin Ailey

‘I write some country music. There’s a song called ‘I Hope You Dance.’ Incredible. I was going to write that poem; somebody beat me to it.’ – Maya Angelou

‘I’m a tap dancer. Once you’re a tap dancer, you’re always a tap dancer. In ‘After Midnight,’ I get to dance, but I don’t do a full tap number.’ – Dule Hill

‘Before joining the industry, my impression of Kannada films was red and yellow outfits, hilarious sets, and dance movements. But I’m glad I’m wrong.’ – Radhika Pandit

‘I think hip-hop is really fun right now… and that’s why people are using dance beats and singing more.’ – Wiz Khalifa

‘I do martial arts mostly. But if I am bored, or my body is aching, I swim or go the gym. I can sometimes be doing cardio on the treadmill, kick boxing, stretching, dance, whatever I feel like. I just make sure I have something to do every day but no particular set routine.’ – Parineeti Chopra

‘If you want to talk about EDM, let’s talk about Detroit underground music, Chicago house and let’s talk about all the things that got us to this place. We all get on the train of dance music. We need to all respectfully look through the carriages that have come before us and realize how we got here.’ – Goldie

‘I have a dance background. I have an athletic background.’ – John Travolta

‘Growing up, I was surrounded by R&B and Hip-Hop, and the closest thing I could find to dance was gymnastics which I watched on TV. So, I just used those avenues I found available right in my milieu to express what was inside of me.’ – Misty Copeland

‘Even when disco went out, I could still make hits. Once I had so much success, every idea became concentrated. I had so much confidence. I knew how the bass should sound, what rhythms would work. The tempos I knew: 110 to 120 BPM. I knew they would dance in the clubs in New York or anywhere.’ – Giorgio Moroder

‘It was something I was more interested in myself. When I went to see my sister dance at ballet, I was really into costumes and the arts, and my family was also supportive of whatever me and my sister wanted to do. I would say I pushed myself the most to be into design.’ – Christian Siriano

‘Dancing – that’s really what I do at parties. I dance and I hang out with friends. That’s my partying.’ – Rebecca Black

‘The good thing about Indian dance is that it relies a lot on communication. There is nothing that can’t be communicated by Bharatanatyam.’ – Shobana

‘I had to learn to dance for ‘The Adjustment Bureau’ and it was nearly impossible. I turned up with my knees knocking in my leotard and went home and cried my eyes out.’ – Emily Blunt

‘If you’re sitting across the table from someone, the geometry of the situation says ‘confrontation.’ If you’re walking with somebody, you’re heading in the same direction, and the spatial dance you’re doing is a little more cooperative.’ – Scott Kim

‘Sexy is attitude, but fitness for me is my dance. I dance two hours nearly every day. You break into good sweat, and it doesn’t even feel like exercise. Apart from that, I enjoy Pilates.’ – Jiah Khan

‘I did grow up in France, and even though I didn’t go to the school or dance with the Paris Opera Ballet, I absorbed similar ideas in my training. I understand the scale of a big company. I danced for one for almost 20 years.’ – Benjamin Millepied

‘I was on Kanye’s Yeezus tour as a dancer, but really, I was a Vanessa Beecroft model. I was one of the three ‘dancers’ who couldn’t dance and was more of an accessory than an individual. Vanessa was pretty involved. Her style is about a lot of standing. It’s very simple but haunting.’ – Kacy Hill

‘My dad and I used to do movie marathons when I was a kid at the Chinese Theatre, and I just remember thinking, ‘One day I want to have a movie here’ And then later on, when ‘Save The Last Dance’ premiered there, that was definitely a full circle moment.’ – Bianca Lawson

‘I’ve been in continuing education programs since taking my dance master’s exam at age 21.’ – Abby Lee Miller

‘I don’t go out too much, though I love to dance, but I dont drink.’ – Molly Qerim

‘My father-in-law saw me at a dance performance. The next day, I got a phone call, and the caller said, ‘I’m Dhirubhai Ambani… may I talk to Nita?’ I said, ‘It’s a wrong number’ and put down the phone. Then he called again… and I said, ‘If you’re Dhirubhai Ambani, then I’m Elizabeth Taylor.” – Nita Ambani

‘When I was first starting out as a kid, I tried to pad my resume with everything I had ever done – ice-skate, carry a tune. I can’t dance for my life, but I can learn, so I’ll tell people I can dance. I play the piano – I’m a really good pianist, actually.’ – Alexandra Daddario

‘Boston was a great city to grow up in, and it probably still is. We were surrounded by two very important elements: academia and the arts. I was surrounded by theater, music, dance, museums. And I learned how to sail on the Charles River. So I had a great childhood in Boston. It was wonderful.’ – Leonard Nimoy

‘There’s only so much you can do with a male voice in dance music.’ – Calvin Harris

‘My goal now is to dance all the dances as long as I can, and then to sit down contented after the last elegant tango some sweet night and pass on because there wasn’t another dance left in me.’ – Robert Fulghum

‘From the beginning I thought about working with the body in movement, the space between the body and clothes. I wanted the clothes to move when people moved. The clothes are also for people to dance or laugh.’ – Issey Miyake

‘Gay nightclubs offer better dance music.’ – Jack Davenport

‘We are artistes, be it a dance reality show or a singing reality show, it is only full of people who are potential art-makers of the future and art is subjective.’ – Aditya Narayan

‘As far as the general public is concerned, I always tell people that you need to look like a dance teacher like you’re looking for a pediatrician.’ – Abby Lee Miller

‘In the dance world, it has to be in your genetic make-up – your body has to suit the training.’ – Darcey Bussell

‘I’ve always had an innate ability to dance, but I’m not as spiffy as those cinema legends like Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire.’ – John Travolta

‘Caring for children is a dance between setting appropriate limits as caretakers and avoiding unnecessary power struggles that result in unhappiness.’ – Charlotte Kasl

‘I’m always interested in linking dance to mundane behavior that everyone can relate to.’ – Justin Peck

‘I wasn’t a ballet baby. My first dance class was in an outdoor pavilion when I was three. It was called ‘creative movement.’ The teacher gave us chiffon scarves in beautiful colors. She turned on some music and said, ‘Now go dance.’ So for me, dance has always been about self-expression.’ – Carrie Ann Inaba

‘I love the song ‘I Hope You Dance’ by Lee Ann Womack. I was going to write that song, but someone beat me to it.’ – Maya Angelou

‘I’m not bragging but I used to be rather beautiful, with lovely legs, and people would always ask me to dance. But suddenly people didn’t take any notice of me any more. I was at a party in my 50s and was forced to dance with a chair because nobody wanted to dance with me.’ – June Brown

‘I was partnered with the singer Drew Lachey of the popular group 98 Degrees. Drew and I complemented each other with our strengths. I was good at dancing and teaching dance, and he was a good student and a natural-born ham for the cameras.’ – Cheryl Burke

‘I always wanted to act, but it was not because of the influence of my family. I just wanted to act since I was four! I used to watch a lot of movies. One of the things that attracted me were the songs picturised on ‘Govinda’ and Karisma Kapoor, who would dance in the middle of the street!’ – Alia Bhatt

‘Scotland is one of my favourite places to perform: it’s really something special. Scottish audiences are just so enthusiastic; their approach to dance music just feels similar to my own somehow.’ – Moby

‘Being fit is the easiest part of being a dance professional. I used to just throw on a backpack full of rocks and run up a hill. You don’t even have to go to a gym.’ – Anton du Beke

‘My name is not unfamiliar to anybody in the dance community. I’m talking the upper echelon of dance studios.’ – Abby Lee Miller

‘Dance means so much to me. It’s always been such a huge part of my life.’ – Peyton List

‘I come from a school of people, folk singers, and the tradition there is troubadours, and you’re carrying a message. Now admittedly, our job is partly just to make you boogie, just make you want to dance. Part of our job is to take you on a little voyage, tell you a story.’ – David Crosby

‘I think my first experience of art, or the joy in making art, was playing the horn at some high-school dance or bar mitzvah or wedding, looking at a roomful of people moving their bodies around in time to what I was doing. There was a piano player, a bass player, a drummer, and my breath making the melody.’ – Robert Pinsky

‘No matter how busy I am, I find time for dance.’ – Kelli Berglund

‘I play football like I dance.’ – Robinho

‘Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?’ – Alice Walker

‘Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn’t music.’ – William Stafford

‘One of the few things in dance to match the Royal Ballet’s curtain calls is the Royal Ballet’s dancing.’ – Clive Barnes

‘Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.’ – Charles Caleb Colton

‘In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell… we can’t dance synonyms.’ – George Balanchine

‘Eroticism is like a dance: one always leads the other.’ – Milan Kundera

‘Dance is definitely what I love doing much more than anything else.’ – Keri Russell

‘Who’s judging American Idol? Paula Abdul? Paula Abdul judging a singing contest is like Christopher Reeve judging a dance contest!’ – Chris Rock

‘It takes a lot of guts to get up on top of a bar and dance.’ – Piper Perabo

‘I feel that the year ahead for me will be full of two of my favorite things: dance and acting.’ – William Kempe

‘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.’ – Bill Murray

‘I would rather be having a burger and beers with my mates but I can’t do that when I know I’ve got to dance.’ – Michael Flatley

‘How I long to fall just a little bit, to dance out of the lines and stray from the light.’ – Dar Williams

‘I don’t set goals. Like, that’s what I want to be doing however many years from now. I do what I love to do at the moment. If I wake up tomorrow and decide I want to dance, that’s what I’d do. Or design clothes.’ – Ayumi Hamasaki

‘My grandmother had a Miss Margaret’s School of Dance to teach tap and ballet to kids, but I never studied it. I was raised a Mormon and they’re dancing fools. It’s the only vice they have – dancing.’ – Michelle Shocked

‘I’m the interpreter. I’m the one who takes your words and brings them to life. I was trained to sing and dance and laugh, and that’s what I want to do.’ – Aaliyah

‘When you step back and watch people, you realize that we use every single body part. Movement, dance – I find it genius because it’s ultimate expression, really.’ – Jude Law

‘When I go to a concert, I can’t believe that people pay lots of money to see a band that they obviously like and then they dance the whole time.’ – John Hughes

‘Sometimes, when I’m alone, I put on six inch heels and wear nothing else and dance around in front of the mirror and do my little stripper dance.’ – Tori Spelling

‘I came out of the womb born to sing and dance. I have to follow my heart.’ – Jennifer Ellison

‘No matter how close to yours another’s steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you’ll do alone.’ – Jackson Browne

‘The mob is a sort of bear; while your ring is through its nose, it will even dance under your cudgel; but should the ring slip, and you lose your hold, the brute will turn and rend you.’ – Jane Porter

‘If you’re looking for a deep album or you’re looking for me to talk about past situations, it’s not even about that. It’s just 14 hot records that are gonna make you dance.’ – Sean Combs

‘I refuse to dance. And I can’t dance anyway. I’m not in a band for that.’ – Liam Gallagher

‘It’s always been my dream to do a dance scene with Anthony Hopkins.’ – Gary Sinise

‘I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.’ – Patricia Velasquez

‘I used to dance when I was younger – ballet and modern dance.’ – Nastassja Kinski

‘I learned to love dance for its own sake.’ – Suzanne Farrell

‘I loved the atmosphere of the dance studios – the wooden floors, the big mirrors, everyone dressed in pink or black tights, the musicians accompanying us – and the feeling of ritual the classes had.’ – Suzanne Vega

‘Whenever you play dance music, it serves a function. It becomes a utility; you have to worry about the tempos and what you’re going to play for people. But when you’re playing for listening, you’re free.’ – Stan Kenton

‘I never thought of myself in comedy at all… I loved going to the theatre and seeing people wearing beautiful clothes come down the staircase and start to dance.’ – Imogene Coca

‘The monarchy is finished. It was finished a while ago, but they’re still making the corpses dance.’ – Sue Townsend

‘Well, number one I like dancing. Number two I knew it would be challenging because I had never done this type of dance before. I always wanted to and I happened to have the courage to go out there and give it my best shot.’ – Evander Holyfield

‘I hope Britney doesn’t get bummed out that Lindsey is a better singer. It is not Lindsey saying it, it’s me. Lindsey would never say that. She’s an actress first. It’s just a bonus that she can dance and sing.’ – Virginia Madsen

‘We’re the only dance in town. We don’t compete with any professional teams for the entertainment dollar.’ – Hayden Fry

‘I use something that is a real staple in the directing world. It’s called a dance floor. You lay it down so that it’s so smooth you can roll around, and you can put furniture on top of it. It’s seamless and you don’t see it.’ – Debbie Allen

‘The pleasant surprise for me is that when I look into Tony’s eyes, he’s still 100% present, sharing everything that’s going on. Acting with him is like a beautiful dance.’ – Genie Francis

‘People know that they’re going to see something which is entertaining but challenging as well because of the form it’s in. It’s dance theatre and it requires you to use your imagination – it’s not straight forward.’ – Matthew Bourne

‘It’s one of my strongest dance pieces – having just done Play Without Words which was veering away from a lot of dance – I thought it would be nice to go back to something with almost the most dance I’d done.’ – Matthew Bourne

‘I’m very conscious that I want the dance audience to respond and respect what I’m doing, so I’m always very true to the music and I honour the music in the way I see it – I don’t mess around with the music.’ – Matthew Bourne

‘From the beginning, I wanted to make dance music with a human element to it.’ – Beth Orton

‘My parents sent me to a dance class, so it was a road chosen by them, not me. But I enjoyed it so much I knew I would become a performer.’ – Zhang Ziyi

‘It’s not that I wanted to be an actor; it’s that I didn’t want to be a dancer! I was trained in traditional Chinese dance, and after working so hard it seemed unfair to just disappear into a group.’ – Zhang Ziyi

‘A lot of the stuff I’ve accumulated over the last few years of touring I thought was really interesting. Like sounds, sound bites, and beats even, but they weren’t good dance beats they weren’t ones anyone would want to rap over or anything.’ – Eric San

‘When I got a lap dance, because I was 17, they had to put a massive pillow between me and the girl when she was grinding me. It was weird, yet pleasurable.’ – Emile Hirsch

‘The women all want to dance. I dance all night every night.’ – Minnesota Fats

‘My mother had been a country and western singer but when she moved out to Hollywood found it very difficult to get work so when I was born they put me into dance classes and singing classes as soon as I could walk actually.’ – Morgan Brittany

‘We had something to say. Whenever we played, people didn’t dance, they listened.’ – Ruben Blades

‘I had art as a major, along with English, French and History. I had dance, modern dance. In English I was allowed to write my own poetry, which I eventually got published.’ – Sally Kirkland

‘I’ve had a lot of very positive feedback about those stories, and seem to have struck upon something that most people feel. I can also tap dance, and don’t know many other authors who can.’ – Paul Kane

‘Among the southern tribes, on the contrary, hats were sometimes worn in the dance, although this was not considered in strict accordance with the doctrine.’ – James Mooney

‘The dance commonly begins about the middle of the afternoon or later, after sundown. When it begins in the afternoon, there is always an intermission of an hour or two for supper. The preliminary painting and dressing is usually the work of about two hours.’ – James Mooney

‘When all is ready, the leaders walk out to the dance place.’ – James Mooney

‘Who is Mike Judge? Let me think. The only way I could possibly answer that question would be in a nonverbal fashion. I think I could do an interpretive dance that would answer that question for you.’ – Mike Judge

‘When people start dancing, they dance like they don’t know they are doing it.’ – Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

‘I keep all my clothes on in House on Haunted Hill, Mary Jane’s Last Dance, and The Way of the Gun.’ – Taye Diggs

‘Like I went out to a predominantly black club last night and nobody said anything and I was wishing somebody would so that someone would dance with me.’ – Taye Diggs

‘On the other hand, now that I’m not dependent on fiction for my income, I’ve been writing more short stories despite the fact that there’s no real paying market for short horror other than Cemetery Dance.’ – Stephen R. George

‘It is not a question of who dances but of who or what does not dance.’ – Ruth St. Denis

‘The real message of the Dance opens up the vistas of life to all who have the urge to express beauty with no other instrument than their own bodies, with no apparatus and no dependence on anything other than space.’ – Ruth St. Denis

‘Remembering that man is indeed the microcosm, the universe in miniature, the Divine Dance of the future should be able to convey with its slightest gestures some significance of the universe.’ – Ruth St. Denis

‘I do take class because I still dance, and yes, I do slip into class with the Royal Ballet from time to time.’ – Deborah Bull

‘I think it’s useful to experience other types of dance and other cultures, and the life of a classical dancer these days is certainly not all tutus! So experience of other dance forms is a good idea.’ – Deborah Bull

‘And dance is wonderful because dance is so immediate.’ – Graeme Murphy

‘Dance is so joyous.’ – Graeme Murphy

‘And currently, there are four to five new works in the pipeline for upcoming celebrations such as the Sydney 2000 Olympics, Australian Federation, my 50th Birthday, and Sydney Dance Company’s 25th Anniversary.’ – Graeme Murphy

‘There’s a line of dancers waiting to get into Sydney Dance Company.’ – Graeme Murphy

‘I wanted to give people – which is fairly bizarre considering my whole life is contemporary dance really – I wanted to give people a really fulfilling sense that they had seen a white classical ballet – in a very pure form.’ – Graeme Murphy

‘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.’ – Cesar Romero

‘When I was in school, I was very involved with a lot of things. I was very very active. I couldn’t say that I wasn’t popular. I was a cheerleader when I was in junior high. I didn’t make it in high school so I started a dance line.’ – Faith Ford

‘I mean whatever I do it’s important that I put my stamp on it and keep it in my world, whether I’m doing a dance track or something like the Russian album for example.’ – Marc Almond

‘Maybe we can use a metaphor for it, out of dance. I think for many years I was aware of the need, in dance and in life, to breathe deeply and to take in more air than we usually take in.’ – Sharon Olds

‘You remember that my great vision came to me when I was only nine years old, and you have seen that I was not much good for anything until after I had performed the horse dance near the mouth of the Tongue River during my eighteenth summer.’ – Black Elk

‘So I would dance and she would sing, and it was kind of a family thing. Performing was part of our world.’ – Liza Minnelli

‘If I only made dances about my own experience in dance, it would always be on my track, and I don’t want that, I want to be on the track of where dance can take me.’ – Siobhan Davies

‘Independent dance – and, fine, it’s a very good thing that it remains independent – is a much tougher life: all dancers expect that, and accept that there will be periods of not being able to work, provided there are choice moments during the year when they really can work.’ – Siobhan Davies

‘The dance world is too small in lots of ways – it’s too intense, it rattles around itself, and it needs exposing to other ideas.’ – Siobhan Davies

‘On the other hand in London you can get an audience that desires dance to go as far as it can go: they’ve seen the bricks of ideas built over a period so therefore there is an acceptance of what otherwise might seem out on a limb.’ – Siobhan Davies

‘Now, the instrumentation in the jazz band and the jazz dance band has gone through many evolutions. For instance, in the ‘twenties the tradition was two or three saxophones.’ – Gerry Mulligan

‘In the beginning, I didn’t dance that much and stuff.’ – Namie Amuro

‘From my debut until now, I’ve always wanted to sing and dance.’ – Namie Amuro

‘People dance and we have a lot of music and… this might be the closet I get for a while.’ – Cameron Crowe

‘And then you have the classical ballerinas, they’re like sopranos. Applied to the dance.’ – Ninette de Valois

‘Also, if you have an accident, you can’t start to dance again at the top, you’re too weak; you start with the easy things – the way you did them when you were young, and come up up up, the way you did then.’ – Ninette de Valois

‘Exactly the same with dancing, you can’t dance until you’ve learnt steps, the things your feet can do.’ – Ninette de Valois

‘Now on the other hand, if someone is selling a product, opening a dance studio, or has some other aim to help themselves, then I tend to look askance at some of these strange stories from outer space.’ – Robert Stack

‘I don’t want to see people decorating a house or digging a garden. As for guys like Jonathan Ross, he got an award there last Christmas. What for? He doesn’t sing, dance or tell jokes, does he?’ – Ian St. John

‘I love to dance. But I don’t like being up in front of tons of people. I didn’t have the desire to be performing in front of a lot of people. So it wasn’t something I ever seriously considered.’ – Sherilyn Fenn

‘A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet. I’m beginning to think that walls are very unhealthy things.’ – Twyla Tharp

‘Dance has never been a particularly easy life, and everybody knows that.’ – Twyla Tharp

‘I would have to challenge the term, modern dance. I don’t really use that term in relation to my work. I simply think of it as dancing. I think of it as moving.’ – Twyla Tharp

‘I’m not one who divides music, dance or art into various categories. Either something works, or it doesn’t.’ – Twyla Tharp

‘He doesn’t make it so complicated but just really allows the lyric to come through even though there’s a lot of production going on. I think that’s the key and that’s the magic, it’s making sure that people could still connect with the lyrics while they’re on the dance floor.’ – Deborah Cox

‘I always thought that it was every performer’s dream. That’s the epitome of being an artist, being able to express song, dance and acting in a live theatre setting and really connecting with an audience on that level.’ – Deborah Cox

‘I have two favorite songs. My first is called ‘Dance of The Robe’ and it’s a very powerful number where she is feeling the pressure from her people to take on the responsibility of leading them.’ – Deborah Cox

‘I think differently, I think it’s about reaching everybody on every different plane and every different level, and if I could remix the song and do a dance remix, that’s great. If I could do a classical version, that’ll be great too. It’s all just about expression.’ – Deborah Cox

‘My opinion is that music is music. As long as you approach doing a remix with truth, I don’t see the dance remixes being any different than an hip-hop remix- it’s really a different version of the song.’ – Deborah Cox

‘I made a big mistake with him the first day I shot. We’re shooting the scene where I come back from the party, the dance, in the sleigh with Julie Christie and we turn the corner and go past the camera and the camera follows us just a little bit and we disappear.’ – Rod Steiger

‘I’ll dance to anything: Bob Marley or rap.’ – Francesca Annis

‘I believe honesty comes across in music because for people that music isn’t just something to dance to. For people for whom music is something that they feel, they understand what I’m talking about.’ – Willa Ford

‘They’re making a song and dance because that serves their immediate interests. But what will happen tomorrow? They will have to pay salaries and pensions.’ – Eduard Shevardnadze

‘If I talk about Charles Dance I am talking about something else, something I operate and wind up and have to make an impression with and use to transmit someone else’s screenplay.’ – Charles Dance

‘Sports nurtures dreams of achieving self confidence and masculine striving for the skinny kid watching a boxer dance around the ring with sublime ease.’ – Armstrong Williams

‘The ballet embodies the notes of music. And sometimes you almost feel like you can see the notes dance up there on the stage.’ – Robert Caro

‘My mother was a modern woman with a limited interest in religion. When the sun set and the fast of the Day of Atonement ended, she shot from the synagogue like a rocket to dance the Charleston.’ – Lionel Blue

‘Dance, vaudeville, drama, movies – as a child I loved everything that went on in a theater.’ – James Broughton

‘I was inspired by a lot of people when I was young. Every band that came through town, to the theater, or the dance hall. I was at every dance, every night club, listened to every band that came through, because in those days we didn’t have MTV, we didn’t have television.’ – Quincy Jones

‘I don’t tap dance, and I don’t think you can learn to tap dance in three weeks at my ripe old age.’ – Huey Lewis

‘The Lord doesn’t like us to be dead. Be alive. Sometimes I dance to the glory of the Lord, because He said so.’ – Mahalia Jackson

‘My dance classes were open to anybody, my only stipulation was that they had to come to the class every day.’ – Merce Cunningham

‘I’ve studied a lot of great people over the years – Pete Seeger, James Brown – and tried to incorporate elements that I’ve admired, though I can’t say I dance like James.’ – John Fogerty

‘I think it’s a lot harder for the pros to have a long career in ice dance and in pairs. It seems the singles have a little bit of a longer career.’ – Nancy Kerrigan

‘Actually I dance really well on the floor.’ – Oksana Baiul

‘I started taking ballet lessons when I was three and a half and I still take dance classes.’ – Oksana Baiul

‘When Talking Heads started, we called ourselves Thinking Man’s Dance Music.’ – Tina Weymouth

‘We always thought the Tom Tom Club could change to anything, but it acquired this image, which was cartoon animation and this real light-hearted dance music.’ – Tina Weymouth

‘Make it, not make it? What’s the difference? Music is a language, it’s a dance of life, and it can be a part of your life without being something that earns.’ – Tina Weymouth

‘We’ll do a crazy video of a great song that people can actually dance to.’ – Mark Roberts

‘They said that Etta James is still vulgar. I said, Oh, how dare them say I’m still vulgar. I’m vulgar because I dance in the chair. What would they want me to do? Want me to just be still or something like that? I’ve got to do something.’ – Etta James

‘Disco is just pop music you can dance to.’ – Sheena Easton

‘We got on American Bandstand, where kids would dance to a record and then rate it. We called ourselves Tom and Jerry. I was Jerry.’ – Paul Simon

‘For the amount of talent I had – and I couldn’t dance, act, or tell a joke – I enjoyed a tremendous career.’ – Perry Como

‘Disco music in the ’70s was just a call to go wild and party and dance with no thought or conscience or regard for tomorrow.’ – Martha Reeves

‘I will always dance in the street.’ – Martha Reeves

‘I went to dance classes from 9 in the morning until 1, then to school from 3 to 10 at night, always under the threat that if I failed a single course I could forget about dancing.’ – Victoria Abril

‘My first vocation was dance.’ – Victoria Abril

‘I like to dance, but it’s not my weekend activity. I’m not a clubber.’ – Ewan McGregor

‘And I have been able to give freedom and life which was acknowledged in the ecstasy of walking hand in hand across the most beautiful bridge of the world, the cables enclosing us and pulling us upward in such a dance as I have never walked and never can walk with another.’ – Hart Crane

‘On the other hand, I was very much interested in the way people behaved, the human dance, how they seemed to move around each other. I wanted to play around with that.’ – Octavia E. Butler

‘When I dance, I love the romance and sexiness of it, and love having it be clear to both dancers that the man leads! But the man has to know what he’s doing!’ – Susannah McCorkle

‘I believe that dance communicates man’s deepest, highest and most truly spiritual thoughts and emotions far better than words, spoken or written.’ – Ted Shawn

‘When I’m not at the keyboard, I’m generally reading, practicing tai chi or middle eastern dance, or cooking.’ – Sarah Zettel

‘I believe I’m doing the right thing in trying to step away from that and to take chances and work on little independent films and do stuff like that wild dance scene.’ – Patrick Warburton

‘I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography.’ – Mikhail Baryshnikov

‘It’s weird when you see pieces of choreography that were done for you 15 or 20 years ago and now they are being done by another dance company.’ – Mikhail Baryshnikov

‘I used to teach dance lessons.’ – Eartha Kitt

‘I had never picked up a basketball before. I went through a grueling audition process. It was almost as if I was learning to walk. It would be like teaching somebody to dance ballet for a role.’ – Sanaa Lathan

‘On Saturday afternoons, there was a film, of course, and then we did about four shows between the films. And I would do a tap dance, a little military tap.’ – Barbara Cook

‘My American gay audience have continued to dance and sing to the music I make in a way that straight Americans haven’t. I am grateful to them for that.’ – George Michael

‘I was taken to one place by a director, and he bought me a lap dance.’ – Lexa Doig

‘Dance every performance as if it were your last.’ – Erik Bruhn

‘I love music and I love to dance.’ – Jami Gertz

‘When I was in New York after I left the Army, I studied for two years at the American Theater Wing, studied acting, which involved dance and fencing and speech classes and history of theater, all that.’ – James Earl Jones

‘That’s what I love about our music – it’ll never be a hit because you can’t dance to it.’ – Adam Jones

‘I do dance music, and I can be pretty camp myself from time to time.’ – Kylie Minogue

‘I am dumb when it comes to learning dance steps.’ – Mia Kirshner

‘And my father was a comic. He could play any musical instrument. He loved to perform. He was a wonderfully comedic character. He had the ability to dance and sing and charm and analyze poetry.’ – Lynn Johnston

‘I’d go dance at talent shows, and because I was young I had the upper hand on a lot of other crews. People thought it was cute. I used that to my advantage.’ – Jermaine Dupri

‘I very much like dance and dancers.’ – Issey Miyake

‘I have worked with several dance companies.’ – Issey Miyake

‘We were doing the dance routine and I dislocated my knee. I’ve been doing stunts for a long time and it’s kind of weird that I’d dislocate my knee just dancing.’ – Verne Troyer

‘Every music – except dance music, which is for dancing, I suppose – is for the spirit of the human being, and not for the body.’ – Klaus Schulze

‘I also dance to music that makes me feel sexy in front of a mirror.’ – Alannah Myles

‘When entertainment was begun, during the Depression, it was supposed to take people’s minds off reality. People could sing, dance, act or do anything. It was the type of entertainment that was available.’ – Tina Yothers

‘I do eventually want to get back into performing, but right now it’s more fun for me to dance for myself.’ – Dule Hill

‘I’m a song and dance girl. I can act enough to get by. But that’s the limit of my talents.’ – Betty Grable

‘I also tried to avoid doing obvious dance records.’ – Boy George

‘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.’ – Delta Burke

‘I’m working on a screenplay right now for the BBC, but I hope to have the decks cleared soon so I can get into the studio with my pals and put down some more tracks, try to get a strong dance single together.’ – Irvine Welsh

‘I was using tape loops for dancers and dance production. I had very funky primitive equipment, in fact technology wasn’t very good no matter how much money you had.’ – Terry Riley

‘But I think there’s a genuine joy, too, a sense that no matter what, even if my stomach’s growling, I’m going to dance. That’s what I want to leave people with at the end of the play. After all this, people still know how to live.’ – Jessica Hagedorn

‘When the circumstances are right, everything becomes a dance.’ – Lynette Fromme

‘If you live in the elite world of dance, you find yourself in a world rife with racism. Let’s face it.’ – Alvin Ailey

‘I was performing in this burlesque group, and we would go to dance rehearsals every day. You’d use every part of your body. Even though some of it is slow, it takes a lot of muscle to be able to dip down and come back up.’ – Carmen Electra

‘I would love to do more music, definitely. That is my true passion. Dance is first and then music.’ – Carmen Electra

‘Dance is very, very old. With Louis XIV at Versailles is where ballet started.’ – Neve Campbell

‘You’re being cast for your acting ability. It’s not based on the way your body functions. If you’re playing a lead in a movie, it’s for that character and they’ll tailor it to you. In a dance company, you have to fit in a definite mold.’ – Neve Campbell

‘There’s nothing I like more than being on a dance floor with a thousand people feeling love for humanity.’ – Chris Lowe

‘No, but way before that, I’ve been doing little dances in movies for years. Yeah, that was an amazing chance. You know, at my age to be able to do a music dance video, very unusual.’ – Christopher Walken

‘The little song and dance number at the end – that’s me, my voice, howling out. It was a new experience for me. I’ve never sung before and I’ve certainly never sung on screen. I think I sung on stage when I was 13 and for some reason nobody’s asked me to try it again since.’ – Hugh Dancy

‘I wasn’t out drinking and abusing my body. I simply loved to go out and dance.’ – Willie Stargell

‘90% of every art form is garbage – dance and stand-up, painting and music. Focus on the 10% that’s good, suck it up, and drive on.’ – Patton Oswalt

‘The only time I’ve really been away from my kids to do work was doing Shall We Dance because they both were in camp and it was the first time in twenty years that I haven’t been with my kids.’ – Susan Sarandon

‘Because it’s dance music, you can’t really have a lot of changing in there. It’s really not for me because there’s too much repetition. I like more diversity.’ – Ikue Mori

‘I can’t wait to be back on the dance floor. I feel really good about it.’ – Paula Abdul

‘I just sort of wish people would dance differently. It reminds me of teenage sex.’ – Laurie Anderson

‘What a joy it is to dance and sing!’ – Angela Carter

‘In my dreams I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance.’ – Louise Brooks

‘Dance must have a precision without fault.’ – Arielle Dombasle

‘I don’t remember not dancing. When I realized I was alive and these were my parents, and I could walk and talk, I could dance.’ – Gregory Hines

‘For yesterday and for all tomorrows, we dance the best we know.’ – Kate Seredy

‘Until quite recently dance in America was the ragged Cinderella of the arts.’ – Shana Alexander

‘Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.’ – Thomas Carlyle

‘I’ll go my way by myself, love is only a dance.’ – Howard Dietz

‘There are those who dance to the rhythm that is played to them, those who only dance to their own rhythm, and those who don’t dance at all.’ – Jose Bergamin

‘It comes from the likes of you! Take what you can get! Grab the chances as they come along! Act in hallways! Sing in doorways! Dance in cellars! – Alexander Woollcott’ – Alexander Woollcott

‘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.’ – Britney Spears

‘We were at our best when we were playing in the dance halls of Liverpool and Hamburg. The world never saw that.’ – Pete Best

‘I want to make music that will make the blood surge in your veins, music that will get people up and dance.’ – Alex Kapranos

‘I don’t really think about dance except just before rehearsals start. I put it off. I don’t live my life thinking about dance.’ – Paul Taylor

‘Dance with a girl three times, and if you like the light of her eye and the tone of voice with which she, breathless, answers your little questions about horseflesh and music about affairs masculine and feminine, then take the leap in the dark.’ – Anthony Trollope

‘I was the lead in two musicals, and I took dance classes.’ – Corbin Bleu

‘I have a strong dance background. I danced from age five until 18, and that helps a lot. Doing a fight routine is like doing a dance routine.’ – Yvonne Strahovski

‘I want to win an Oscar. I want to be known for more than, like, going out. For being the ‘party girl’. I hate that. I bust my ass when I’m filming and when I have time off, yeah, I like to go out and dance.’ – Lindsay Lohan

‘I have thought about the next steps, and you know, they still don’t know that I can dance. They don’t know it, and it’s frustrating me because I feel that it’s an edge that I have, and I’m not talking about I took this hip hop class, I’m talking about this is how people actually know me.’ – Naima Adedapo

‘It’s funny because a lot of people that know me as a dancer, don’t know that I’m a singer, and a lot of people that know I can sing don’t know I can dance. And so, I feel like at some point I have to show them both and really be able to display it and showcase it, and put that out there.’ – Naima Adedapo

‘Our young people are out on the streets looking for parties, a place to dance, looking for a scene. No institutions are providing them with alternatives, fun things to do that don’t necessarily have alcohol at the center.’ – Donna Shalala

‘You know, if you really want to fiddle the old-time way, you’ve got to learn the dance. The contra-dances, hoedowns. It’s all in the rhythm of the bow. The great North Carolina fiddle player Tommy Jarrell said, ‘If a feller can’t bow, he’ll never make a fiddler. He might make a violin player, but he’ll never make no fiddler.” – Alison Krauss

‘Regis can do anything these young punks can do. I fit right in there with my Fox people. They want Regis to dance, Regis will dance. They want Regis to lift weights with them, Regis will lift weights with them. Whatever they want!’ – Regis Philbin

‘My first show was when I was a high school freshman, but it was at the junior class dance. My older friend and bandmate booked it.’ – Frank Iero

‘We’ve always wanted to do it, something you could dance to, and deep down we always thought we could bring something to the table if we could do it, but the live shows always made us pull back and be a rock band.’ – Frank Iero

‘I connected very much with all the work of Joan Crawford because she started as a flapper. She used to dance and sing and she was very cute. She had something that was so different from what she is at the end of her life and she started in the silent movies and then went into the talkies.’ – Berenice Bejo

‘I fell in love with Crawford because when she was twenty or twenty five, she would dance and talk and sing and do the things that Peppy’s character needs to do.’ – Berenice Bejo

‘My running style was kind of just head-on, because I couldn’t dance.’ – Earl Campbell

‘Yeah, I always listen to both classic and newer folk-influenced music. Singer-songwriter, alternative music. I also listen to more experimental dance music.’ – Brad Delson

‘Growing up, others girls wanted to dance and help their mums with the cooking. I liked to play soccer with the boys. Or I’d be off on my own, tilting mirrors towards the sun in order to burn armies of ants. That was my idea of fun.’ – Ali Larter

‘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.’ – Elizabeth Berkley

‘I grew up walking out with no music. I wish I had the bottle to dance on but I can’t dance.’ – John Higgins

‘As an actor, you really want to respect and honor the script. You want to try to be in the moment and you also realize that you’re one part of a bigger picture and when they call action, you have your dance.’ – Carrie-Anne Moss

‘I can dance, act, beatbox and whistle very well.’ – Mario Vazquez

‘During ‘Saturday Night Fever’ at the end of the first act dance number I tried to perform a split-jump, only I can’t do them so I ended up on my ass followed by the most unsightly backward roll out of it, followed by the cast falling over in laughter and a good portion of the audience too.’ – Adam Garcia

‘I think ‘Tap Dogs’ has lasted so long because people have a natural interest in tap dancing. This form of dancing can’t be dated, it’s such an intriguing form of dance because the feet are also an an instrument.’ – Adam Garcia

‘I love to dance so much. It’s one of my guilty pleasures in life and my hobby.’ – Mia Maestro

‘In dance you use every party of your body except your voice. I wanted to start acting because I wanted to use my voice.’ – Zoe Saldana

‘I literally tried every sport and was miserable. Soccer couldn’t hold my attention. I couldn’t figure skate. I’m afraid to swim. So I did dance for five years. It came a time where I was getting a little bit bored with it.’ – Alicia Sacramone

‘I loved dance.’ – Greta Gerwig

‘My first dance ever on ‘Dancing With the Stars’ was to ‘Let’s Hear it for the Boy.” – Julianne Hough

‘I love to dance.’ – Petra Nemcova

‘I can dance for, like, four or five hours nonstop without even drinking water. It’s a beautiful, beautiful thing.’ – Petra Nemcova

‘When I’m not training day in and day out I love to go out and dance, even though it is potentially in my contract that I’m not allowed to do that.’ – Taylor Phinney

‘I must confess I knew very little about the trance scene, I’m more house and commercial dance but it was really interesting and different.’ – Sophie Ellis-Bextor

‘I wasn’t like a Hollywood child actor – ‘I’m five! I can sing, I can dance, I can act! I wanna be a star!” – Alexander Skarsgard

‘I’ve been doing African dance all my life.’ – Naima Adedapo

‘See, I don’t like places where people can’t dance – don’t like clubs or theatres where a bunch of bourgeois people sit around tip, tip, tipping their fingers.’ – Etta James

‘I can’t walk in high heels, never mind dance in them.’ – Kesha

‘I am so not a proper, good female. I can’t dance in high heels and I’m just so not girly, but then I see these men with these banging bodies, dancing in heels, singing, and having so much fun with so much make-up on. That makes me honestly want to be a better woman.’ – Kesha

‘I think if you are going to be a singer, you should sing. If you are going to be a dancer, you should dance. If you are going to do a combination of the two, you should make it very clear when you are singing and very clear when you are dancing.’ – Kesha

‘Sometimes it is hard to sing and dance at the same time, but I would rather be off and be real and genuine about it to my fans.’ – Kesha

‘I’m the same guy at that podium preaching to the people on every single song. I’m not doing a dance for you on another song. It’s all a direct assault.’ – Fred Durst

‘There was a time when my mum would sew costumes for the dance studio so we could keep doing our classes because we couldn’t afford them.’ – Julianne Hough

‘At the time I just was like, I can’t believe I am on the show, and the first thing I have to do is an entire song and dance routine for the whole cast of ‘Mad Men.” – Jessica Pare

‘So dance music is now pop music. So now, as a dance producer, what do I have to do? So I’m starting to do alien music, because pop is not pop anymore; we need to go alien to be independent.’ – David Guetta

‘I am trying to walk a tightrope; trying to keep the DJ community happy while trying to spread the message about dance music to more people. That is the mission that I am on.’ – David Guetta

‘I work out a lot and I do yoga and I do Pilates and I’m kind of athletic. I’ve taken dance classes, but at the same point I’m just a total klutz.’ – Heather Graham

‘I just wanted to perform, to sing, dance and act.’ – Jennifer Ellison

‘I can’t dance and I can’t sing too well.’ – Michael Kors

‘Just because you’ve been on stage doesn’t mean you can dance.’ – Rachel Stevens

‘The hype man’s job is to get everybody out of their seats and on the dance floor to have a good time.’ – Flavor Flav

‘I go with the flow. Whatever music you play for me, I’ll dance.’ – Gael Garcia Bernal

‘I’m going to do ‘The Social Network Two: The Electric Boogaloo.’ And I have a part in ‘Beige Swan.’ I’m going to be the lead, but I don’t dance. I just do a lot of sitting down. It’s too tiring to get up and dance around. That should be coming out in 20-never.’ – Amy Poehler

‘I enjoy every climb – maybe it’s because it’s a literal dance between life and death.’ – Alain Robert

‘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.’ – Chris Isaak

‘I’d love to do a modern-day musical that’s full of original music. To get your contemporaries to sing and dance without looking foolish and for it to be transformational and magical and all those things a musical is supposed to be.’ – Danny Boyle

‘I don’t think women’s prisons are environments for dance routines, and I don’t think mass murder is humorous.’ – Natalie Merchant

‘Every label thinks, when they sign someone, ‘This is the perfect pedigree to sign. They’re cute, they can sing, they can dance, et cetera.’ And they say to the public, ‘Here, this is what you’re gonna like.’ But you might say, ‘No, I don’t like that!’ You’ll probably say ‘no’ many more times than you’ll say ‘yes!” – Randy Jackson

‘I know I have to be like people expect, because people love to dream with me, they like to think that I love my boat of 50 metres, that I drink Cristal for breakfast, that I dance until five o’clock in the morning. I am not like that.’ – Roberto Cavalli

‘I have periods where I listen to regular rap, Jay-Z, Eminem and Lil Wayne. The next day I might have some Christian alternative music. The next day I have on some dance music. It all varies what I listen to.’ – Steve Blake

‘My songs aren’t bubble gum pop dance songs and I don’t have background dancers on every single song.’ – Avril Lavigne

‘We have parties at my house. My girlfriends and I play our iPods, with all of our favorite songs. We pick our songs and jump up on the counter and dance, and do runway stuff, and we take video with my camera. When I’m with my girlfriends, I act like I’m 19.’ – Avril Lavigne

‘I learned how to dance. I got a free spray tan. My life is good!’ – Carson Kressley

‘In theater and dance, I was trying to win someone’s approval, trying to get in, trying to be good. It felt out of my control, whereas music suddenly felt like this free expression. It was fun.’ – Susanna Hoffs

‘People assuming that because I’m a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.’ – Jackie Joyner-Kersee

‘My goal? To test out every diet and exercise regimen on planet earth and figure out which work best. I sweated, I cooked, I learned to pole dance. In the end, I lost weight, lowered my cholesterol and doubled my energy level. I feel better than I ever have.’ – A. J. Jacobs

‘I can sing and dance. I can smile – a lot.’ – Chris Colfer

‘I know my body. What happened is that I got so caught up in the applause I forgot how I should dance. All my life I’ve been what others wanted – in dancing and in life. Now I’m doing it my way.’ – Gelsey Kirkland

‘The craft Emmys are kind of the kids’ table at Thanksgiving. You’re not really invited to the big dance. It’s still really, really exciting, and the statue still counts.’ – Hank Azaria

‘I like when the song starts to take over and you feel like you have to dance more than write.’ – Carly Rae Jepsen

‘I’m okay with having bad dance moves.’ – Katy Perry

‘I was not naturally talented. I didn’t sing, dance or act, though working around that minor detail made me inventive.’ – Steve Martin

‘Indian actors, because of the format of our stories, need to be good actors, and be able to perform emotional sequences, do a bit of comedy, dance and singing, action, because all of this forms just one film. In many ways I’d say there are greater demands on Indian actors than there are on Hollywood.’ – Amitabh Bachchan

‘Latin guys dance. American guys don’t dance. That’s a big difference.’ – Sofia Vergara

‘Sometimes I need to blow off steam and go dance really hard.’ – Kristen Wiig

‘I want to dance. I want to live.’ – Domenico Dolce

‘When I am not working, I go to the movies, text my friends, my thumbs are faster than lightening on that keyboard!, write songs, sing, dance, Facebook, Twitter and spend time with my besties. I am also a songwriter and I love to write about my life experiences.’ – Ariel Winter

‘I’m 27. I feel like I get it. I’m OK with being sexy if I feel like it. Some days I’m brainy, some days I’m funny, some days I’m sexy, and sometimes, I just want to dance.’ – Nelly Furtado

‘There probably aren’t a lot of actors my age who tap dance.’ – Christopher Walken

‘I don’t really know any other musicians like me. I grew up backstage with my dad who played in a post-war dance band, so I always feel at home at a venue.’ – Pete Townshend

‘The reason that you dance and sing is to make the audience feel like they’re dancing and singing. As long as you’re having fun with it and giving it 100 percent, they’re gonna feel that.’ – Heath Ledger

‘There are a lot of farmers and ranchers who are struggling. I get on my knees every day. If I had a rain prayer or a rain dance I could do, I would do it.’ – Tom Vilsack

‘Playwrights have texts, composers have scores, painters and sculptors have the residue of those activities, and dance is traditionally an ephemeral, effervescent, here-today-gone-tomorrow kind of thing.’ – Twyla Tharp

‘I love a long bath. I love anything creative. I love decorating. I even love just flipping through magazines and vegging out for a while. But I’m also one of those people who loves to work, so I’ll sing, dance, work on my next performance, or write whomever it may be about a new idea.’ – Jennifer Lopez

‘But the idea of taking things and mixing them together is what I do in my music. I take hip-hop, R&B, pop, dance, funk and soul and mix it all together to get my own sound.’ – Jennifer Lopez

‘I think hip hop is a dance music that’s rebellious by nature.’ – Talib Kweli

‘It’s really cool to see glowsticks at the show, to see dance music culture infiltrating and becoming one with the metal community.’ – Jonathan Davis

‘I’m okay with having bad dance moves. I’m okay with having horrible lower teeth. That’s what makes me me, and for some reason it’s worked out all right.’ – Katy Perry

‘I dance a lot and I run and do yoga and play field hockey and tennis. I like to be active. I don’t always have time for that stuff, but I do always feel better afterward.’ – Emma Watson

‘My vision is that I’m living to see two more daughters get married, dance at their weddings and then lift the Lombardi Trophy several times.’ – Chuck Pagano

‘I got married and decided I wanted to do a dance record, and I didn’t ever expect for it to be what it was or for the ‘No Doubt’ thing to be such a long break, but it was one of those things where you just had to sort of follow your inspiration.’ – Gwen Stefani

‘I can’t dance anymore. Total knee replacements. I can’t do anything anymore.’ – Annie Dillard

‘People assume that because I’m a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.’ – Jackie Joyner-Kersee

‘After a decade this glum, we deserved a shot of ‘Glee,’ a show that restored our faith in the power of song, the beauty of dance, and the magic of ‘spirit fingers’ to chase our cares and woes into somebody else’s backyard.’ – James Wolcott

‘What’s happening to movie critics is no different from what has been meted out to book, dance, theater, and fine-arts reviewers and reporters in the cultural deforestation that has driven refugees into the diffuse clatter of the Internet and Twitter, where some adapt and thrive – such as Roger Ebert – while others disappear without a twinkle.’ – James Wolcott

‘When I was a kid I did marshal arts, and then I did all-star crazy competitive cheer and dance, and then I swam so I was very muscular. You know, healthy, but not quite as thin as I am.’ – Ashley Greene

‘I focus on having a feminine body, a dancer’s body. I do resistance and dance and cardio. I like hiking, swimming, being active. It clears your mind and it’s a good way to decompress.’ – Ashley Greene

‘The best pop music is the songs that a group of people can dance to, but you can also listen to in your bed and cry. That’s something obviously that The Beatles started and… so having that darkness there opens another door.’ – Andrew Dost

‘The best pop music is the songs that a group of people can dance to, but you can also listen to in your bed and cry. That’s something obviously that The Beatles started and… so having that darkness there opens another door.’ – Jack Antonoff

‘I’m always very nervous about the word ‘dancer’ next to my name because anyone who’s really trained in dance will go, ‘This guy’s fudging so badly.” – Hugh Jackman

‘Dance music is Madonna’s base. It’s what she likes, it’s what she listens to. It’s not anything other than that. She doesn’t read what’s on the charts. And if it’s on time, great. This is who she is.’ – Guy Oseary

‘Medical knowledge and technical savvy are biodegradable. The sort of medicine that was practiced in Boston or New York or Atlanta fifty years ago would be as strange to a medical student or intern today as the ceremonial dance of a !Kung San tribe would seem to a rock festival audience in Hackensack.’ – Lewis Thomas

‘This was a time frame when dance music and clubs were having a real impact on culture, and it had an impact on me.’ – Tori Amos

‘I would love to compose something for dance before I kick the bucket, and I’m not closed-minded about the dance, or the dance company.’ – Tori Amos

‘I don’t care if Margot is a Dame of the British Empire or older than myself. For me she represents eternal youth; there is an absolute musical quality in her beautiful body and phrasing. Because we are sincere and gifted, an intense abstract love is born between us every time we dance together.’ – Rudolf Nureyev

‘Playing on the streets of Iraq, or in Israel or the Gaza strip, I’d sing angry protest songs against war. People would say, ‘Make us clap, make us dance, and laugh and sing.’ It really made me think about the importance of happy music.’ – Michael Franti

‘It was an unwritten law that black comics were not permitted to work white nightclubs. You could sing and you could dance, but you couldn’t stand flat-footed and talk; that was a no-no.’ – Dick Gregory

‘I like music and I like ladies. I like to see them dance.’ – Joe Namath

‘There are female artists I can look at that I find more in common with than the male artists, because they’re blending the pop, dance and theatricality… but currently there aren’t a lot of guys who go there.’ – Adam Lambert

‘When you dance and move around it creates a different reaction from the audience – they love it.’ – Adam Lambert

‘You know, ballet might be too formal of a title for the type of dance I do, but I love to dance.’ – Jeff Bridges

‘We are just at the studio, me and my choreographers, we are spending like 30 nights and we are thinking, what is my next dance move? Because in Korea there are huge expectations about my dancing. So it was a lot of pressure.’ – Psy

‘I try to dress classy and dance cheesy.’ – Psy

‘So you can have your program, but you also have to be ready to change it immediately because there are certain kinds of people who like certain kinds of songs and they like – some people want to dance when you come out, some people just want to be intimate with you. So you kind of feel your way through a show.’ – Nickolas Ashford

‘I used to love to see Willie Pep and Ray Robinson. To me, the epitome of a great athlete is a great boxer. I just love the rhythm of seeing a man dance, slip punches. I loved the dancers and boxers. I would see them and be mesmerized.’ – Emanuel Steward

‘Almost all of what I learned about mounting and hosting a dance show I learned from Dick Clark.’ – Don Cornelius

‘I began with dance, doing ballet at 3, then tap, jazz, modern. Then I sang in church choirs, learned how to play clarinet and drums, sang with rock bands and only then did I get into musical theatre.’ – Samantha Barks

‘I prance around and dance by myself to hip-hop songs in the mirror.’ – Liz Phair

‘Justin Bieber stole my haircut. And Axl Rose stole my dance!’ – Davy Jones

‘People dance at any age.’ – Mikhail Baryshnikov

‘I never liked dance photography; it’s very flat, and dance photography in the studio looks very contrived.’ – Mikhail Baryshnikov

‘Nothing is ever too expensive if it furthers the repertoire and artistic standards of a dance company.’ – Mikhail Baryshnikov

‘Now there is in a way a renaissance of modern dance – suddenly, it is more respected and discovered.’ – Mikhail Baryshnikov

‘I’m not a song and dance man, so you’re not going to see me on ‘Glee’ anytime soon. If you want that show to continue, keep me far away from it.’ – Dean Cain

‘Astaire never thought of what he was doing as balletic, but Kelly was always trying to dance with women on points. And his choreography is so showy and flashy. He always looks self-satisfied to me.’ – Matthew Bourne

‘I’m not somebody who no matter where I go there are paparazzi or any of that nonsense. But I have a little window into that world and I can enter it and dance around. I want to be the audience’s ticket into the party.’ – Kathy Griffin

‘I guess somehow I got a reputation of being able to dance.’ – Uma Thurman

‘When I grew up we had gym at school, two or three dance classes after school, ice skating lessons, and all sorts of sports at our finger tips. We weren’t glued to computers because they didn’t exist, so being active was all we knew.’ – Lisa Loeb

‘I wish I could dance like Michael Jackson. I’d love to be able to have my life exactly the way it is, but with his dance moves.’ – Donny Osmond

‘My daughter just graduated college and she’s a dance major. She’s done a couple of dance videos already and won Miss Massachusetts a couple of weeks ago. She’s going out for Miss United States the second week of July, out in Las Vegas. She will probably wind up going to New York and trying the Broadway thing.’ – Doug Flutie

‘Would you just strap some toe shoes on and dance ‘Swan Lake?’ No. Would you just put a violin in your hand and – ? No. I felt that way about acting, and I was taught to feel that way. I didn’t come to it on my own.’ – Ellen Barkin

‘Well, for me, the real excitement of doing physical things in films, whether you’re talking about a fight scene or a stunt sequence or even a love scene, for that matter, is by necessity it has to be choreographed very much like a dance. That being said, you have to rehearse it over and over again and find a mathematical precision.’ – Benjamin Bratt

‘I only dance when I go out.’ – Diane Kruger

‘I tap dance.’ – Jamie Bell

‘It’s hard to incorporate dance into movies I think.’ – Jamie Bell

‘Growing up, my sisters were both into dancing, so I went to a lot of dance recitals, mostly because there were always pretty girls in leotards.’ – Jason Sudeikis

‘I worked as a secretary, a waitress and a dance teacher – all in high school.’ – Jennie Garth

‘Dance music has pushed its way into the mainstream. Which is good for me.’ – Jessie Ware

‘I grew up in dance class, so I was looking in mirrors all day.’ – Katharine McPhee

‘Dance has such an intensity to it. You become, in a way, an intense person.’ – Mia Wasikowska

‘Coming from dance, I feel acting is – I’m not going to say easy, because it’s not. But the dance world is more hard-core.’ – Mia Wasikowska

‘Dance is such a stressful environment.’ – Mia Wasikowska

‘With dance, you learn to channel nerves into energy, excited energy.’ – Mia Wasikowska

‘What I don’t like is dance music or hip hop or any of that sort of thing.’ – Steve Coogan

‘Even the ears must dance.’ – Natalia Makarova

‘I do what I love to do at the moment. If I wake up tomorrow and decide I want to dance, that’s what I’d do. Or design clothes. I think I’d throw myself into whatever I’m doing now. It’s not about abandoning what I was doing before, or giving up. It’s about knowing that if I die tomorrow, I lived the way I wanted to.’ – Ayumi Hamasaki

‘I can’t dance at all by myself.’ – Cat Deeley

‘I wouldn’t want to do a Bollywood film per se, but I would like to do an Indian-language film. For some reason I think Bollywood has become synonymous with commercial cinema, which is song and dance and everything that is larger than life, and I am interested in the reality.’ – Freida Pinto

‘When I go out clubbing I can dance ’til three o’clock in the morning with just a water bottle in my hand. I love dancing to anything with a good beat really. My favorite song to dance to at the moment is probably Drake’s ‘Best I Ever Had.” – Jordin Sparks

‘You know, ‘Peepshow,’ in retrospect that seems like a good fit for me, but in the beginning, I’m sure you remember, nobody was sure if the show was going to last. Everybody was like, ‘What are you doing? You can’t sing, and you can’t dance. What are you doing in this show?” – Holly Madison

‘I think someone like Carmen Electra would be great in ‘Peepshow.’ Really, though, I think anyone who can sing and dance would be great.’ – Holly Madison

‘I have my diehard R&B fans on one side of the spectrum and my diehard pop and dance fans on the other side of the spectrum.’ – Ne-Yo

‘I love dancing in general and making girls dance. My generation doesn’t do it enough.’ – Jean Dujardin

‘Probably only an art-worlder like me could assign deeper meaning to something as simple and silly as Tebowing. But, to us, anytime people repeat a stance or a little dance, alone or together, we see that it can mean something. Imagistic and unspoken language is our thing.’ – Jerry Saltz

‘I know what my talents are, and at the end of the day I’m an actor who can dance.’ – Harry Shum, Jr.

‘I actually got dared to audition for the dance team. All my track-and-field buddies dared me to audition, and I was one of the few guys who did it.’ – Harry Shum, Jr.

‘I’d rather dance in a corner than dance in a circle.’ – Harry Shum, Jr.

‘The music industry used to be able to control a single dance on the very smallest level of when people are supposed to hear it, and when they’re supposed to start liking it, and when they’re supposed to start buying it. And that’s trashed, you know, that big machine that takes control and works albums for a long period.’ – Robyn

‘I’m a huge Kentucky fan. So when there was a chance to do the John Wall dance, I went into character.’ – Josh Hopkins

‘Here’s the thing, back in the day, a lot of guys would make fun of me, that I would sing and dance, that I was a cheerleader. But I kept my head on straight. I had goals.’ – Carlos Pena, Jr.

‘Theater is a dance of a different kind, a dance of rawness and characters stripped down.’ – Ian McShane

‘I didn’t grow up watching film but as a Ukrainian-American, music and stories and dance are crucial.’ – Vera Farmiga

‘I love working out. Dance classes are my favorite.’ – Shay Mitchell

‘When I was little I used to dance and model and that was fun. But I was always the person that was goofing off and I would memorize every line in every movie that I saw. And at recess that’s what I would do, I would talk to my friends and recite movies.’ – Ashley Benson

‘Adam Shankman has got such love and passion for dance.’ – Nigel Lythgoe

‘I don’t go into my dentist and say, ‘Are you gay?’ I don’t say to contestants on ‘So You Think You Can Dance,’ ‘Are you gay?’ What does it got to do with me? What does it got to do with anybody?’ – Nigel Lythgoe

‘The dance community suddenly came alive with programs like ‘So You Think You Can Dance,’ ‘America’s Best Dance Crew’ and ‘Dancing With The Stars.” – Nigel Lythgoe

‘We’ve had nothing but support from everybody in the dance world for a National Dance Day.’ – 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.’ – Nigel Lythgoe

‘I’m a dancer so anything related to dance I love to do. I also tried Zumba last week. That thing is tough! 15 minutes in I was going for a water break. It wasn’t easy!’ – Patti Stanger

”Shall We Dance?’ takes a small, exquisite Japanese movie and turns it into a big, stupid American movie. Still, it must be said that as glossy and overproduced as the thing is, it’s a good big, stupid American movie.’ – Stephen Hunter

‘I worked a lot in Chicago’s theater scene as a fight choreographer. And so I do have a lot of experience in stage combat and also in Kabuki dance and Kabuki theater.’ – Nick Offerman

‘Swing dance has been a part of my life since I was born.’ – Lacey Schwimmer

‘Adaptability is crucial to working on Glee because every day is adapting to something. Because we’re doing a different genre of music, doing a different type of scene with a different scene partner, recording and dance rehearsals… no day is like another.’ – Kevin McHale

‘I feel that the music that I do is somewhat of a lost art and it’s not as popular as dance or pop music and people are not as interested in it. But it’s something that I believe in and I feel that it’s needed, so that’s why I do it and I will keep doing it until everybody hears it and gets it.’ – Jazmine Sullivan

‘Soulja Boy is on his dance, down south, young, 18-year-old, comedic swag. It’s really just each person’s personality; if every rapper had the same swag, it would be kind of boring.’ – Soulja Boy

‘You can only dance for so long, but you can act until you’re dead, so… I fell in love with it and I want to keep doing it and pushing myself.’ – Kenny Wormald

‘I was a dancer, and it’s not really cool for a boy to dance, so it was inspiring to see a movie like ‘Footloose’ where a guy is dancing masculine and had a proper reason behind it. It made me feel cool, and when these kids would make fun of me, I’d be like, ‘Oh, didn’t you see ‘Footloose,’ man?” – Kenny Wormald

‘I enjoy the element of pushing yourself, learning something new, whether it’s a dance step, a scene, an emotion.’ – Kenny Wormald

‘I always tell the adults at my dance school, ‘Men, you are going to have to do something that you are absolutely not used to: you have got to take command and be the boss.’ Because – and this is just an observation – women get their way.’ – Len Goodman

‘On the dance floor, as much as you say, ‘Ladies, you are the car. He is the driver. You can only go where he takes you,’ they still try to be in control.’ – Len Goodman

‘Blacks don’t square dance. If you see a black person square dancing, it is definitely the seventh sign.’ – Tommy Davidson

‘I realized that, for me, great records always moved me with the lyrics and the melodies. And so I said, ‘I think I can do it now,’ ’cause I found a team of people who understand I didn’t want a record that was ‘drop it, pop it, shake it’ just ’cause I can dance.’ – Laurieann Gibson

‘If you love dance and you have the gift of teaching, teaching is super amazing and important because my teachers planted that seed in me. As a teacher you understand the difference or the definition of a Baryshnikov or a Gregory Hines, so teaching is really important and very necessary.’ – Laurieann Gibson

‘Choreography is amazing. I’m still a dancer, yet I transitioned into choreography then as a Creative Director. All of these creative elements are brought out of being a dancer. Directing is something that comes out of understanding movement and choreography. Directing movement is directing a dance piece.’ – Laurieann Gibson

‘I enjoy getting an artist at the beginning stages, and then I’m able to pull out something that is so pure and actually create their individual style. From how they pick up the microphone, to how to look on the stage, to their dance steps, to their talk, their opinions, to what they wear, so it really gets to be developed from the beginning.’ – Laurieann Gibson

‘I think reality TV for dancers has changed for the better. There are more opportunities and the platforms that we are being given are better. We have more job security and TV is allowing different levels of dance to come through to the forefront. People can now take their abilities and turn them into brands and make these top dollars.’ – Laurieann Gibson

‘I was born in Toronto and studied with the National Ballet of Canada. I went to school to study dance, slept on the floor, ate nothing, waitressed – and then there was a Mary J. Blige audition.’ – Laurieann Gibson

”The Dance Scene’ is basically the most amazing dance show in the world, and it follows me as a creative director. You see how I maintain that creativity.’ – Laurieann Gibson

‘I think dance is amazing because what people don’t realize is like when you dance your spirit and your soul get ignited. You’re not only releasing endorphins, but also your spirit is awakening. It makes you feel good and happy.’ – Laurieann Gibson

‘I love working with Alicia Keys, because it’s not just the ability to do the dance to me; I think it’s the ability to interpret it that excites me the most.’ – Laurieann Gibson

‘I dance but I also work out. I run, do strength training… you name it. I’ve got to!’ – Laurieann Gibson

”The Dance Scene’ is just a real look at what it takes. You see the award shows. You see the videos and you never realize what goes on behind the scenes. The reality and the preparation. The motivation I have to give each dancer on that set.’ – Laurieann Gibson

‘I want to be able to say, ‘you think you’re odd, I’m even odder and I made it – you can too!’ I want to direct, do more with ‘The Dance Scene,’ sign artists and just provide opportunities. I’m just getting started and having the time of my life!’ – Laurieann Gibson

‘I do a one-hour workout called Drenched, a cardio-boxing fitness routine, Monday through Friday. There are usually between twenty-five and fifty people there – everyone from stay-at-home moms and professional martial artists to teenagers and seniors. They play great dance music. When I can, I take two classes back-to-back.’ – Carrie Ann Inaba

‘I went through this phase where I thought pink and purple matched. To dance class, I’d wear purple tights and pink leg warmers and paint my shoes purple. It was really odd.’ – Carrie Ann Inaba

‘I come from a dancing background, and I know it’s stereotypical, but I would dance because I wasn’t comfortable speaking to people.’ – Carrie Ann Inaba

‘I’m considering going back to school to become a registered dance therapist.’ – Carrie Ann Inaba

‘I went to prom with my boyfriend, but after the dance he left me at a party all by myself. It was awful!’ – Crystal Reed

‘I’m a dancer, so I love to dance.’ – Matthew Morrison

‘I love grooves and dance music, but I like the feeling behind songs too.’ – Michael Kiwanuka

‘The dance world was a big part of my growing up.’ – Amy Sherman-Palladino

‘Well, I took ballet for many, many years, so my whole childhood really revolved around dance class. I grew up around dance; my mother was a dancer.’ – Amy Sherman-Palladino

‘I like to read, and I like dance. I don’t dance, but I like to see other people dance.’ – Esperanza Spalding

‘People who can dance and sing are often very good at comedy.’ – John Michael Higgins

‘I love to dance and dance all night long.’ – Douglas Booth

‘Rock was always part of my heart and soul. But the times just changed and everybody wanted to dance.’ – Narada Michael Walden

‘I would be a horrible lip-syncher. I would only ever sing live – that’s why people come and see the show. It’s not the easiest thing in the world to sing and dance at the same time, which is why I’m grateful to be able to do both.’ – Nicole Scherzinger

‘It’s a blessing as an artist to express myself – whether that be via dance, via song or via speech – in so many different ways.’ – Bebe Neuwirth

‘In my heart, my first desire was to be a dancer. I always wanted to dance and I danced from the time I was 7 till I was well into my 30s.’ – Phyllis Smith

‘Life clearly does more than adapt to the Earth. It changes the Earth to its own purposes. Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia.’ – James Lovelock

‘In high school, I taught dance classes for 3-year-olds up to 16-year-olds, so between that and some bat mitzvah money, I saved up a pretty good nest egg to move to L.A.’ – Dianna Agron

‘I think if I hadn’t had the dance background, it would have been much harder as a kid to be like, ‘I’m going to be an actress.’ But you’re involved with one area of the arts and other things interest you. It feels like an easier move.’ – Dianna Agron

‘I didn’t take the typical path and go to college after high school. Instead, I saved up money from teaching dance classes and moved to L.A. But my family was so supportive – I never felt pressure from them. It’s crucial to find a support system, even if it’s not your family.’ – Dianna Agron

‘I didn’t see my son the entire time I did ‘Dancing With the Stars.’ The only time I saw Jeffrey was when he came to the show Monday and Tuesday nights to watch me dance. You literally rehearse six to eight hours every single day – 40 to 50 hours a week.’ – Sherri Shepherd

‘Music is great; it all depends on what mood you’re in, what you want to listen to. If it’s party time, you listen to, you know, party music, if you want to dance with somebody. But then again, if it’s a slow dance, you need something slow.’ – Tom Jones

‘I’ve always liked to dance – I’ve got a natural rhythm.’ – Tom Jones

‘At the age of 16 I started performing with a dance band in the evenings and began earning more money than my father, but he was pleased for me.’ – Jack Bruce

‘The Grateful Dead, they’re my best friends. Their message of hope, peace, love, teamwork, creativity, imagination, celebration, the dance, the vision, the purpose, the passion all of the things I believe in makes me the luckiest Deadhead in the world.’ – Bill Walton

‘No dance has ever turned out the way I thought it would, because I trust enough that I can start something with some ideas and then it takes itself somewhere.’ – Mark Morris

‘It never occurred to me that I’d have a dance company.’ – Mark Morris

‘There was always dance in opera until people forgot to keep it going.’ – Mark Morris

‘The one reason people don’t take dance seriously is because a lot of choreographers don’t take dance seriously.’ – Mark Morris

‘Audiences don’t want to see the kind of self-indulgent, boring dance that is so prevalent today.’ – Mark Morris

‘If nobody comes to your shows, then it’s modern dance. If everybody comes to your shows and no one likes it, is that ballet? I don’t know.’ – Mark Morris

”So You Think You Can Dance’ comes on as a high-minded leap up the evolutionary ladder from other reality shows – on this one, you’re supposed to learn something, and the guest judges are fellow dance professionals rather than actual celebrities.’ – Rob Sheffield

‘Like most fans of ‘So You Think You Can Dance,’ I wouldn’t know a pasodoble if it beat me with a rake.’ – Rob Sheffield

‘When I was 13, I moved from New Jersey to Germany with my family. The high school was so supportive of my dream to continue with my theater training; instead of taking PE, I would get credit for dance lessons.’ – Nina Arianda

‘I was into opera as a kid – I’d play ‘Carmen’ and sing and dance. My mom signed me up for a theater group before preschool, and I never looked back.’ – Nina Arianda

‘I feel like more than 80% of the world wouldn’t get up in front of 40 million people and dance on national television, and if I have the confidence to do that then that’s a step ahead in my life for me in terms of personal goals. I will gain a lot of confidence on all aspects right there.’ – Rob Kardashian

‘Obviously, there’s the seedy side of the strip club world and pole dancing. But, pole dancing, as an art form, is really beautiful. It’s been hyper-sexualized because it’s associated with strippers, but if you think about it, just in terms of other kinds of dancing, they’re using an instrument to create these amazing dance forms.’ – Megalyn Echikunwoke

‘I’ve been lifting weights since I was literally 15 or 16 years old. My muscles are short and powerful and built to lift heavy weights, not to be graceful and glide around a dance floor.’ – Jake Pavelka

‘I lived in Meadowbrook. I went to church at Meadowbrook United Methodist Church. I went to school at Meadowbrook Elementary School and then Meadowbrook Middle School. I learned to dance at Meadowbrook Country Club. All those things grounded me in one place and I think most of Fort Worth is just like the area I grew up in.’ – Kay Granger

‘Well, I never danced with the ‘Pips’ – they didn’t let me dance!’ – Gladys Knight

‘Concert dance is the hardest kind of dance. We tour constantly, around the world, year in and year out. It just doesn’t work for everybody. It’s the lifestyle, it’s the stamina, it’s the love, it’s the dedication, it’s the commitment, it’s all those words.’ – Judith Jamison

‘Dance is not endangered – it will always find a way to express itself.’ – Judith Jamison

‘I hadn’t played any music since freshman year of college, more than thirty years ago, so I had to relearn everything. I started writing songs. Some were dance and trance songs (I listen to them a lot while I’m writing), and some were love songs, because that after all is what music is about – dancing and trancing and love and love’s setbacks.’ – Nicholson Baker

‘I started playing with a group of young people when I was 13. I turned professional when I was 15 and I played dance halls, this on bass guitar.’ – Dave Holland

‘I used to dance, but now I only move.’ – Ben Vereen

‘I don’t dance like I used to, but I’m moving and I’ll be doing my form of dance at Town Hall… I hit my limitations but I learn to work with what I’ve got.’ – Ben Vereen

‘I think it started since I was born, I always had a need to express myself, you know, as a human being, and I found that it felt right when I expressed myself through art, dance, through acting, so it kind of happened naturally.’ – Alex Meraz

‘I’m looking for a guy who makes you want to dance and write poetry all day long.’ – Angela Sarafyan

‘I think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler.’ – Baz Luhrmann

‘Dance music is great, but it’s not a time to be reflective or particularly wistful.’ – Sophie Ellis-Bextor

‘Writing songs about fancying people in dance clubs is all very well but it’s not the be-all and end-all. There are other topics.’ – Sophie Ellis-Bextor

‘I’m the guy that stands out in all the crowds, so I don’t get out there and dance, but I can dance.’ – Tracy McGrady

‘Hip-hop culture is probably one of the most powerful things to come out of America in a long time – everything from the music to the art to the dance to the language.’ – will.i.am

‘The music industry isn’t converging toward dance music. Dance music is dance music. It’s been around since disco – and way before disco. But there’s different versions of dance music.’ – will.i.am

”Dance to the Music’ was just Sly Stone being his natural crazy self right from the beginning. The man was an original and his first AM hit was nothing if it wasn’t the example per excellence of the Sly Stone music machine.’ – Jon Landau

‘I’ve always felt like I can dance.’ – Miles Teller

‘I’m the first one out on the dance floor. In college I had to take jazz, ballet and tap dancing, but, before that, it was just social.’ – Miles Teller

”Footloose’ is a fun movie. If you do it right, people should leave wanting to dance.’ – Miles Teller

‘I went to performing arts high school, and I took dance and acting every day. Then, I went to Marymount Manhattan College and I have a B.A. in acting, with a concentration in theater performance and a minor in musical theater. I studied there for three years.’ – Jenna Ushkowitz

‘I spend a lot of time on the ‘Glee’ set. A lot of time. Luckily we have to dance and rehearse, so we’re always moving, but having such a tight schedule can make it hard to find the time to exercise. It’s definitely a struggle!’ – Jenna Ushkowitz

‘I’ve got my ideal job. I like to sing, I like to dance, I like to bang drums and dress up, and someone pays me – it’s incredible.’ – Florence Welch

‘Bono told me how to dance in high heels and he also told me about U2’s Glastonbury performance and how everything that could have possibly gone wrong went wrong, including him ripping his trousers on stage. I think he was lunging and his trousers ripped! He was telling me how he had to find a new way of performing that didn’t involve moving.’ – Florence Welch

‘I don’t think my vocals demand effects. I like reverb to a certain extent, but I don’t want to hide my voice. I like stripped-down vocals, but I also like crazy, powerful, doubled vocals like in dance or electronic music.’ – Victoria Legrand

‘Everyone loves to dance. I’ve realize that’s a part of what I do more and more every day.’ – Ciara

‘In 1962 I was 17, so I was definitely watching the dance shows on television.’ – Micky Dolenz

‘We go through our lives in a continual dance of being filled with something that needs an answer, and then going out and finding that answer… only to find out that our answer wasn’t quite the answer.’ – Guy Finley

‘When I was a kid in the mid-’60s, I was what’s known as a moddie boy, a prototype skinhead. You all had your hair like a crew cut, cropped, with suits or Levis with red suspenders, sometimes Doc Martens. It was a thriving soul music, Motown and ska scene; we used to dance to Prince Buster and the Skatalites.’ – Graham Parker

‘The discovery of dance has changed my life in unimaginable ways.’ – Adam Shankman

‘I used to break dance. I can do some good James Brown footwork. But now I think I’ve danced too much. My girlfriend made fun of me: ‘Enough with the dancing.” – Sam Rockwell

‘I’m from Texas and actually went to a regular high school, but every day after school I’d run to dance class and practice a lot and then go back the next day and stuff like that.’ – Jenna Dewan

‘I was very personable and outgoing and was friends with most everybody in my class but I was a diehard dancer so I was constantly at dance classes and working toward my passion of dance.’ – Jenna Dewan

‘The energy that comes when you compel people to dance stays with you your whole career – whether you are playing to 100,000 people at Glastonbury or 1,000 kids in a club.’ – Steven Van Zandt

‘It’s great that ballroom dancing is being recognised. For many years ballroom dancers were misunderstood and other dance forms didn’t want anything to do with us.’ – Anton du Beke

‘My favourite dance is the Foxtrot. It’s a proper dance with proper music. It has class.’ – Anton du Beke

‘If you want a dancer’s body, dance. Dance aerobics is my favourite cardio. It’s very frustrating if people think you have to become a dancer to do it – you don’t.’ – Tracy Anderson

‘Like most lit nerds, I’m a voracious reader. I never got enough poetry under my belt growing up but I do read it – some of my favorites, Gina Franco and Angela Shaw and Cornelius Eady and Kevin Young, remind me daily that unless the words sing and dance, what’s the use of putting them down on paper.’ – Junot Diaz

‘I don’t think what I do is influenced by suffering. I come from a talented people who are prolific in music and dance.’ – Hugh Masekela

‘I did a dance sequence in my second short film, which was my best short film, called ‘Hairway to the Stars,’ and I think Chris Wink, the founder of Blue Man Group, was in that. It’s a black-and-white dance sequence. We were Glorious Food waiters together.’ – David O. Russell

‘As a teenager, in my songbook, I used to script what my lighting would be like. I used to dance in my roo;, it was like putting myself in a trance, and making myself feel good about things, almost like a private ceremony of begging people to like you.’ – Mika

‘I’m always working out; I did ice hockey in high school, but I’m not a dance person. I mean, this was horrible, but I had a dance double in my high-school musical.’ – Eliza Coupe

‘I’m not classically trained or anything, but I’ll rip up a dance floor.’ – Beau Mirchoff

‘I like to dance, but I’m not a dancer.’ – Jon M. Chu

‘Everyone who shoots dance sequences does it in a different way. Everyone who shoots fight sequences does it in a different way.’ – Jon M. Chu

‘When I was younger, I was one of the few girls in the neighborhood who could break dance. That’s kind of my local, ghetto-celebrity claim to fame.’ – Joy Bryant

‘To me, writing is much freer than dancing. With writing, you could do it whenever you wanted. You didn’t have to do little exercises and stay in shape. You could have great moments of inspiration that advanced the story. In dance, unless you’re going to choreograph things yourself, you’re at the service of someone else.’ – Lorrie Moore

‘I can’t dance on ice, because I’m like Bambi on ice.’ – Martine McCutcheon

‘When I go out, I’m not going out to find a man; I’m going out to dance the night away with my best friends.’ – Mollie King

‘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.’ – Tom Holland

‘Women in music have always been associated with pop – with prettiness, theatricality, melodic hooks and dance beats.’ – Ann Powers

‘When I meet a girl, I just sort of do really over-exaggerated terrible dance moves… a lot of hip movements. I get them laughing, and get them to feel pity for me, and then they like me!’ – Nicholas D’Agosto

‘Starting at age four, my mom decided that she was not going to have an idle child in the house. So I started taking dance lessons on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and then I was in acting classes on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and I was also modeling on Saturdays. And that was my childhood.’ – Chandra Wilson

‘From a very young age, music was very much in my house. I would sit with my mom, with the old LPs, listening to The Beatles and Carly Simon and Lionel Richie. The old LPs used to have the lyrics. From there, I would put on dance and music displays for my family, just to entertain them and make people laugh and smile.’ – Lara Pulver

‘Dance has a transformative effect on bodily trauma.’ – Eve Ensler

‘The aboriginal women leaders of Papunya – the Papunya Artists – performed a dance for me: the Honey Ant dance. They’d never done it for anyone else. They honoured me with a ceremonial stick that signifies the story of the land.’ – Quentin Bryce

‘I’m always hopeful. I feel like I’m at the prom sitting against the wall waiting for someone to ask me to dance.’ – Sarah Dessen

‘In a way, ‘Billy Elliot’ was autobiographical. I can’t dance, but I think his dancing was me discovering about writing and literature.’ – Lee Hall

‘I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.’ – Inga Muscio

‘You know I very much respect Yvonne Rainer, she is very important – in American dance, the entire development of modern dance, and creating a wonderful physical language.’ – Marina Abramovic

‘For me, writing a novel is like solving a puzzle. But I don’t intend my novels as puzzles. I intend them as invitations to dance.’ – Mohsin Hamid

‘I’ve been blessed with a lot of things in life, but God did not give me rhythm. Still, I love to dance – which past girlfriends always found hilarious.’ – Blake Mycoskie

‘Drag shows are one of my favorite things in the world. As a straight man I love going to gay bars. People at gay bars just love to dance.’ – Steve Kazee

‘There have been a lot of people involved in the growth of EDM’s support in the U.S., from DJ/producers like David Guetta, Deadmau5 and Skrillex, to major festival organisers and pop artists of EDM integrating elements of dance music into their music.’ – Tiesto

‘Miami is a really special place for me, particularly in the U.S. It was one of the first places in the country to really embrace dance music, and I’ve been going there for many, many years.’ – Tiesto

‘I love performing in the U.K. Everyone is always up for it and brings all their energy to the dance floor.’ – Tiesto

‘Most people went to dance shows, but it was basically a table and a DJ playing and not really a spectacular thing. I brought the whole production with the effects – the best sound, the best lighting to blow the fans away.’ – Tiesto

‘Time and time again, as a boy, I was humiliated. I celebrated my first day in long pants by going to a dance where I fell sprawling on the floor, and was so ashamed that I jumped up, ran away and left my girl to get home the best way she could.’ – Vash Young

‘I love all types of music. I love top 40 dance pop, hip-hop, I don’t even know what they call it now. I’m a huge fan of all that.’ – Dustin Lynch

‘In our house, everybody is always dancing around and singing. We have a dance floor outside at our house, a big, huge dance floor that we all dance on.’ – Lisa Rinna

‘Dance has helped me with everything. It was a great foundation for discipline, hard work and, unfortunately, the ever-elusive idea of perfection. It lends itself easily to fight choreography, because that’s what it really is. Choreography. And knowing how to move with someone.’ – Keri Russell

‘Everyone should dance more. Everyone should walk more.’ – Keri Russell

‘It’s great if you’re funny or if you can dance, but if you are kind and decent, it comes out your pores.’ – Yvette Nicole Brown

‘Tim Tebow cannot dance, I know that. Tebow can do a lot of things, but he can not dance.’ – Erin Andrews

‘I love to dance, and sing – in the shower, not in public. I’m too old to go raving, but my fondest memories are of that kind of thing – dancing, with lots of people, outside if possible.’ – Zadie Smith

‘People like to hear songs that they can dance to. Even if they’re sitting, they like being made to want to dance and move. By me being a dancer, I know how I’d dance at certain tempos. I was always good at it.’ – Illinois Jacquet

‘Hamp would ask me about tempos in the band: ‘Jacquet,’ he’d say, ‘knock off that tempo.’ A lot of jazz musicians didn’t prefer to play for dancers, which was their loss, really. But good jazz has always had that dance feel.’ – Illinois Jacquet

‘I do really silly dancing. I love dancing, but I’m not cool when I dance. It’s not about my moves, it’s not about how cool I am, it’s not about how slick I look on the dance floor, it’s about having a great time.’ – Imogen Heap

‘Tiny slices, no frosting, forty-five minutes on the StairMaster: These are the conditions, variations on a theme of vigilance and self-restraint that I’ve watched women dance to all my life, that I’ve danced to myself instinctively and still have to work to resist.’ – Caroline Knapp

‘Sometimes I have to shut off the omnipresent disco ball and flashing lights that are always in my head. It’s a part of maturing, I guess – just learning that it’s not just always about a quick, easy fix of getting people to dance.’ – Mark Ronson

‘I can still dance a little, yes, but I like singing better. It’s more fun.’ – Stanley Donen

‘In my childhood there was every year at my old home, Roxborough, or, as it is called in Irish, Cregroostha, a great sheep-shearing that lasted many days. On the last evening there was always a dance for the shearers and their helpers, and two pipers used to sit on chairs placed on a corn-bin to make music for the dance.’ – Lady Gregory

‘I admit I do have some drawbacks and limitations as a candidate. Although I am a professional comedian, some of my critics maintain that this is not enough. I cannot deny that I stand before you untested and inexperienced – I only spent two years in television, never as a romantic lead or a song and dance man.’ – Pat Paulsen

‘I learned jazz; that comes from blues. I learned rock; that comes from blues. I learned pop; that comes from blues. Even dance, that comes from blues, with the answer-and-response.’ – Cyndi Lauper

‘I used to dance for seventeen years -classical ballet, which was very disciplined. I like yoga and Pilates, but I don’t have the discipline to go to the gym.’ – Penelope Cruz

‘I’m not attracted to naturalism, I’m not attracted to behavior, I’m attracted to dance. I’m attracted to gesture, I’m attracted to singing with your voice, as opposed to having a natural manner. I’m a theater actor first, so that probably influences a lot of my approach. And I think in many ways, naturalism has ruined movies.’ – Willem Dafoe

‘I’ve actually tried to give Brett Ratner dance lessons, but he thinks he already knows how to.’ – Chris Tucker

‘I can tell by the way somebody walks if they can dance or not. Just by the rhythm.’ – Bruce Forsyth

‘I love songs that people can dance to and enjoy at the same time.’ – LaToya Jackson

‘Training a dog, to me, is on a par with learning to dance with my wife or teaching my son to ski. These are fun things we do together. If anyone even talks about dominating the dog or hurting him or fighting him or punishing him, don’t go there.’ – Ian Dunbar

‘When I first moved to L.A. as a dancer, all I wanted to do was dance. I never even considered trying to act or direct.’ – Cris Judd

‘When playing big festivals, I tend to play big, over the top techno tracks, like hands in the air songs that make sense being played in front of 30,000 people. I steer away from subtlety in the interests of big bombastic dance music.’ – Moby

‘I like places where you can dance to crazy music, like Bedlam or Eastern Bloc in the East Village.’ – Nicola Formichetti

‘I like to do yoga, Pilates, dance, and things like that.’ – Taylor Schilling

‘I became disillusioned with dance when I was 16 and started focusing on acting.’ – Teri Polo

‘I’ve studied dance since I was very young, and I continue to study ballet.’ – Sarah Gadon

‘I believe in the city as a natural human environment, but we must humanize it. It’s art that will re-define public space in the 21st Century. We can make our cities diverse, inspirational places by putting art, dance and performance in all its forms into the matrix of street life.’ – Antony Gormley

‘The worst thing about me is my toes. I’ve thick joints from wearing pointe ballet shoes – I went to a dance school from the age of 11 and danced every day.’ – Pixie Lott

‘I come from a folk tradition where you just dance however you feel comfortable.’ – Sufjan Stevens

‘A cardio-funk class – I should have at least taken one of those. But it’s always terrified me. I’m never one to be a dancer on the dance floor, even at a bar or a club.’ – Neil Patrick Harris

‘I love the ‘So You Think You Can Dance’ show. I love it. I think it’s some of the best hours on TV.’ – Neil Patrick Harris

‘I think when dance is mediocre, it’s painful. But when dance is really impressive, it destroys.’ – Neil Patrick Harris

‘My favorite time to dance is at, like, wedding receptions, when it’s all ages and everyone seems to be having fun.’ – Neil Patrick Harris

‘Because I could dance, my folks went through hell so I could be in movies. But I didn’t dance in pictures. I cried! At one point I had polio, which I believe was a result of the stress I felt in the studios.’ – David Holt

‘My worst memory is of my first dance lesson as a 14-year old in Prague. My mother put me in this silver and pink lame dress. My hair was all curled, and it was the first time I wore a garter belt. I felt so out of place!’ – Martina Navratilova

‘I can get a dance party started pretty much anywhere and anytime.’ – Claire Danes

‘Twelve-year-old me wanted to do everything: act and sing and paint and dance.’ – Joss Whedon

‘The way a musical can make us feel is unlike anything else, in song and particularly in dance. I think people fly through plate-glass windows when they get shot because movies don’t have dance scenes any more. This is what we do instead.’ – Joss Whedon

‘When you’re in Jamaica, unless you’re in a tourist spot, you don’t hear Bob Marley; you mostly hear dance hall music.’ – Michael Franti

‘My mother was the influence on me – my father was absent. He was a diamond dealer; he was doing wonderful things in the background, and women were left at home. So my mother really was in charge of everything: the ballet, dance lessons, piano lessons, and latkes.’ – Maira Kalman

‘I always promised myself if I ever got the chance to do a ‘Flashdance’-type of movie, I would do my own dancing. I can say with pride that every single dance move in ‘Go For It!’ is my own dance move.’ – Aimee Garcia

‘With dance and theatre, I think people get very nervous about not knowing the right things. They feel like they’ve missed something, or that they’re not bright enough to watch it. It’s not a test.’ – Wayne McGregor

”Entity’ is not about science. The process behind it may dictate the nature of the piece, but it’s not like a dance about Einstein where I’m trying to convert his ideas into movement and communicate that to an audience.’ – Wayne McGregor

‘In times of war, starvation, hunger and injustice, such tragedy can only be put aside if you allow yourself to be uplifted through music, film and dance.’ – Emmanuel Jal

‘My wife says that I become different once I start to work with animals. My movements become different, my mood is different. It involves letting everything fall behind you, becoming intuitive in your dealings with wild creatures in a way that bypasses reason. Sometimes it’s more like a dance than anything else.’ – Frans Lanting

‘Some people buy records just to dance to ’em. Some people buy records to listen to the radio. And there’s people that buy records ’cause they listen to every song.’ – DMX

‘The body moves through space every day, and in architecture in cities that can be orchestrated. Not in a dictatorial fashion, but in a way of creating options, open-ended sort of personal itineraries within a building. And I see that as akin to cinematography or choreography, where episodic movement, episodic moments, occur in dance and film.’ – Antoine Predock

‘I didn’t grow up on dance class. I was always natural. I’ve been in the industry since I was eight and I’ve always had a choreographer since then. But I never really took ballet or anything like that.’ – Marques Houston

‘I love music, and I loved dance music immediately. So I bought some equipment and started making my own. When I started this, I didn’t say, ‘okay I’m going to do this step and then this step’ to become popular. I just created music that I loved.’ – Armin van Buuren

‘Holland was one of the first countries to adopt dance music into their culture, and we were the first ones to have really big raves. I grew up in that atmosphere in the early 1990s, and I was very interested in how dance music was made.’ – Armin van Buuren

‘In ’92 – ’93, I was at that age when I was looking for my identity and that’s when I found dance music and I really fell in love with it.’ – Armin van Buuren

‘As a dancer, I know couples that have stayed married but separated to dance on different continents. Dance in general, but ballet in particular, is such a finite career. You can’t do it later in life, and it’s something that I think a dancer has to have some selfishness to fulfill.’ – Amanda Schull

‘In order to dance professionally, you have to start at a young age. No matter what, your muscle structure and your bones have to be groomed from a very young age. Nobody wakes up at 17 and decides to become a ballet dancer.’ – Amanda Schull

‘Acting for screen is very different from acting on stage, and then obviously when you dance… everything is a physical embodiment. But the discipline is the same approach. You have to take both things seriously; nothing well-crafted is by mistake.’ – Amanda Schull

‘I grew up next to the ocean, on the coast, and would dance the salsa all day, so I just learned those rhythms and knew how to move my body when I was very little.’ – Ana de la Reguera

‘Oh, I got totally misquoted saying I can dance like Rihanna. I can’t! What I did say is that I enjoy a dance-off with my stepdaughter and her friends.’ – Anna Maxwell Martin

‘You should do what you enjoy doing, what brings you passion. As kids, we spontaneously sing and dance and tell stories, and along the way, someone comes and says, ‘No. You shouldn’t be doing that.’ And we slowly begin to unlearn our passions. I think you have to hold on to those things.’ – J. Michael Straczynski

‘If you have a little sensibility or a heart, you have all the reason to be depressed once in a while. But the depression is like a motor for creation. I need a little bit of depression, a bit of acid in my stomach, to be able to create. When I’m happy, I just want to dance.’ – Marjane Satrapi

‘My family’s business was actually an amusement park in New Orleans. My grandfather had started that, and my grandmother was a dance maven in New Orleans. It was just the theatricality and the Mardi Gras and the pageantry that I fell in love with at an early age.’ – Bryan Batt

‘Lady Gaga? She’s cool! She works really hard. When we would have our dance rehearsals, she wasn’t the singer that was like, ‘Oh, I’ll just stand in front.’ She wanted to learn everything – she was doing the dance moves. She’s a good dancer.’ – Caity Lotz

‘Bollywood stars are versatile; they not only act, but each one has the dance skills of John Travolta in ‘Saturday Night Fever.” – Christian Louboutin

‘I used to make fun of the kids in school who acted or went to dance class.’ – Matt Dillon

‘I came from a dance background, so that’s what I did my whole teenage years. I was at the dance studio a lot. It just becomes your social scene and part of your life.’ – Felicia Day

‘I ended up doing a local AmDram musical when I was nine or so. We had to sing and dance and act. It was probably terrible, but I loved it.’ – Gemma Chan

‘I would love to be able to program myself to pick up any instrument and to be able to play it very, very well, and to be able to read music and dance as well. I’m very uncoordinated, and I’d love to be able to bust a really great move.’ – Dichen Lachman

‘As a kid, I loved leading ‘dance camp’ in my garage for the neighborhood kids. I would choreograph really intricate routines for us to perform. It was so much fun!’ – Daniella Monet