Quotes About Dance

I just sort of wish people would dance differently. It reminds me of teenage sex.

I taught at a cotillion. I was one of the teenage helpers when I was in high school. But we're talking very basic.

I really love 'Hairspray.' I love the idea of this teenage dance show where you have to go through all these competitions to get to the next level.

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.

I last went to a gym when I was a teenager to make sure I could lift ballerinas.

Since I was a child, I always loved music that made me want to dance. As a teenager, I used to dance the night away to electronic music.

I was a teenager in the '80s, and I was always a bit dismissive of Houston, as I think a lot of people who considered themselves 'cool music fans' were. She was poppy, bubble gum, making music not considered very cool. But you can't help but dance to some of those songs or feel emotionally affected by 'I Will Always Love You.'

The current concept of prom just seems so empty. Teenagers get dressed up to go to a dance at a fancy location. It encourages social inclusion or exclusion based on your ability or inability to snag a date.

I dreaded the dance scene in 'Love Actually' more than having my teeth extracted.

She was so small she could make mamba in a telephone booth.

Not many people know that I was one of the first few Indian actors to do a television show. I did the dance show 'Kya Masti Kya Dhoom' when I was at the peak of my career.

I started taking my dance seriously and I have been choreographing for corporate and television shows.

Rage is a really fun place to dance from - expressions of anger sublimated into something beautiful are invigorating, especially if you feel like you're telling the truth.

In Telugu filmdom, audiences like to see their hero dance, fight and play a larger-than-life character. It's precisely why most of our commercial films do extremely well and get remade too.

I never planned to become a dancer, but I became one. The same thing happened with acting and direction. I remember I was doing the choreography of a film, and the producer came and offered me to direct the film. It was in Telugu, and that is how it started.

I was born in 1952 in Chidambaram, an ancient temple town in Tamil Nadu best known for its temple of Nataraja, the lord of dance.

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.

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.

We dance in a circle and suppose, while the secret sits in the middle and knows.

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.

So few things we need to know. And the old wisdoms shudder in us and grow slack. Like renunciation. Like the melancholy beauty of giving it all up. Like walking steadfast in the rhythms, winter light and summer dark. And the time for cutting furrows and the dance

A fine work of art - music, dance, painting, story - has the power to silence the chatter in the mind and lift us to another place.

I like to tease Rowan that he can go ahead and try to reason his way to a new world, but my generation intends to dance our way there.

I've been so afraid to dance in front of people, so now I make it a point to confront my fears and chase my demons.