Dance Quotes

“Except for Carrie Bradshaw's in the opening credits of 'Sex and the City,' I don't know if the tutu has ever really been trendy, but I want to wear one. I want to dance around in it, and I want that to be socially acceptable.”

“I think I can dance after a couple pints!”

“I'm a dancer, so I love to dance.”

“My personal music style is very Latin and very soulful. It's dance meets hip-hop.”

“I was a dancer of no repute. But dance taught me a lot. You walk into a dance studio knowing you have to walk out with a dance. You improvise.”

“Don’t wait for a perfect day. To make it a perfect day, dance the whole day, sing every hour, and love every moment”

“I'd taken, like, maybe some African dance classes a couple of times, but I wasn't a musical theater person at all.”

“When Aretha Franklin came on the radio when I was in college, we would stop the car, throw open the doors, jump out, and dance.”

“Use the creative process - singing, writing, art, dance, whatever - to get to know yourself better.”

“The Royal Academy of Dance is an institution that trains to a very high standard.”

“TV has made dancing less important. It used to be a real treat to go to the movies and see Fred Astaire dance. But now you see dancing every time you turn on the set. You see lines of girls on the variety shows - even girls dancing around a big box of cleaning powder for commercials.”

“People opposing dance bars claim that a lot of money is wasted in bars. I want to ask them why not target five star hotels, too, where a lot of money is spent?”

“I wanted to be performer; like, I used to dance at weddings. I felt acting was my calling, and that is something I wanted to do.”

“I love drag, and I love people who gravitate toward it. Because the people who do drag are people who dance to the beat of a different drummer.”

“I still remember the first acronym I learned, BLUF: Bottom Line Up Front. I still try to communicate that way. No reason to dance around getting to the point.”

“I love to perform at various award functions and one day I would like to open a dance academy.”

“Why? As much fun as a hospital sounds, I'd rather spend the evening dancing with an amazing, smart, funny, interesting, beautiful girl who has the most incredible green eyes I've ever seen. Sophie, will you go to the dance with me?”

“English:Ô, take this eager dance you fool, don’t brandish your stick at me. I have several reasons to travel on, on to the endless sea: I have lost my love. I’ve drunk my purse. My girl has gone, and left me rags to sleep upon. These old man’s gloves conceal the hands with which I’ve killed but one!Francais: Idiot, prends cette danse ardente, au lieu de tendre ton bâton.J'en ai des raisons de voyager encore sur la mer infinie: J'ai perdu l'amour et j'ai bu ma bourse.Ma belle m'a quitté, j'ai ses haillons pour m'abriter. Mes gants de vieillard cachent les mains d'un fameux assassin!”

“It was in these moments, I knew, that my father loved my mother most. When my mother was broken and helpless, when her hard shell was stripped away and her spite and brittleness couldn't serve her. It was a sad dance of two people who were starving to death in each other's arms. Their marriage an X that forever joined murderer to victim.”

“My first drag role was the character Widow Simone in the ballet 'La Fille Mal Gardee.' She's a crazy social climbing woman trying to marry off her daughter to the wealthy town idiot. And in the middle of the show, she gets to perform a clog dance. I loved it.”