Quotes About Dance

Young Noah: [humming] Bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum. Young Allie: [laughing] You're a terrible singer. Young Noah: I know. Young Allie: [laying her head on his shoulder] But I like this song. [they continue dancing in the street to I'll Be Seeing You]

'Seven Sonatas,' with its flowing series of meetings between men and women in an identifiable emotional world, is in the mould of Jerome Robbins' glorious 'Dances at a Gathering.'

Almost all of what I learned about mounting and hosting a dance show I learned from Dick Clark.

My son became my manager, and he said to me, 'Mom, if you could do anything you wanted to do, what would it be?' And out of my mouth immediately came, 'Dancing With the Stars.'

My background is in dance, but as soon as I found acting and realized that I could entertain people, not just with my body but with what comes out of my mouth, I was into that.

I can dance. I like hip hop and stuff and jazz movements, but I'm horrible in ballet. I tried.

I started dancing in my room... I wanted to find out more about my movements. I wanted to elaborate on whatever it was that I was doing there.

I love doing fight scenes. I've been a dancer since I was 3 years old, so I think that helped me with the movements.

Obviously, Fred Astaire was a legend. I've tried to copy some of his movements.

I'd been collecting eccentric moves since I was a kid and didn't even know that the dance step I improvised in 'Be Back Soon' was called a 'pas de basque.'

When I was a kid, we got in a cipher and battled each other lyrically. We told jokes and made the hottest dance moves.

Of course, Bounce is all about the dance moves.

I would like to teach Metallica our dance moves, just because we've learned so much from them about metal.

My music is just about that bounce and getting everybody moving.

When I was 12 years old, someone took me to see Martha Graham. It was nothing like what I thought of as serious dancing and even then I knew I was having a great experience. It was as if somebody was moving through space like no one ever did before.

I think it's one thing to be able to dance, and it's another thing to learn all the wonderful moments of dance because in my day... it was the moving of dance.

Mum, who had been a dancer with a small ballet company before she got married, was full of encouragement. She didn't say, 'This is really good, you should do this', She just encouraged us to do whatever we liked.

My earliest memory is of sitting at Mum's dance school, watching her teach a ballet class.

I have a dance academy in Mumbai that my husband takes care of.

Dance and Mumbai go hand-in-hand.

I always get excited over James Murphy's work and everything that comes out of DFA. I really like the way that Murphy and LCD Soundsystem mix electronic, dance and rock together.

Dancers use their bodies in extraordinary ways, so we are chronically pre-arthritic, because of how we use our muscles and our bones.

I have been blessed with strong leg muscles, and dancing really exercises one's legs.

I love barre because even when I'm not dancing, I feel like I'm training those same muscles.