John Updike Quotes

I'd get sent home from the first audition of So You Think You Can Dance. My dancing is sort of controlled spasms. I fully accept it might appear ridiculous. But it's passionate!

There are likewise three kinds of dancers: first, those who consider dancing as a sort of gymnastic drill, made up of impersonal and graceful arabesques; second, those who, by concentrating their minds, lead the body into the rhythm of a desired emotion, expressing a remembered feeling or experience. And finally, there are those who convert the body into a luminous fluidity, surrendering it to the inspiration of the soul.

Give me something to dance about and I'll dance it.

I'm not a trained dancer in the slightest.

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.

Yes, anybody can dance. Whether it is right or wrong, that doesn't matter.

I want to see movies that explore different forms and new styles of dance, and also those that revive the old.

Dance, dance, dance till you drop.

I enjoy the freedom of modern dance as well as the constraints of classical dance.

I've just always liked watching people dance. I can't explain it. It used to just make me laugh. Sometimes you can tell a lot about a person by the way they shake their ass.

Dance was one of the things that led me to acting even though I say I fell in love with acting fairly early on and its true but around 16 and 17 I got heavily into dance but I think I just came into it too late and I was never going to be really great at it so I let it go and the dance led to more acting classes.

If I had to choose, it would be dancing. Dancing is my first passion and it's gotten me where I am today.

Actually I'm more passionate about dancing than I am about singing.

I was very happy that I was as normal as possible before I went into serious dance.

I'm not much of a dancer.

Dance is the stepchild of the arts.

Dancing is a gift. You are supposed to do it; it's like breathing.

Could you do such things when you were a dancer?' Tara asks her, as Tsukiko pulls a leg up impossibly far over her head. 'I would have had a much busier social calendar if I could,' Mme. Padva replies with a shake of her head.

I did jazz dance for a few years.

Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.

When I was sixteen, I danced before an audience without music. At the end someone suddenly cried 'its Death and the Maiden'. But that was not my intention; I was only endeavoring to express my first knowledge of the underlying tragedy in all seemingly joyous manifestation. The dance according with my comprehension, should have been called 'Life and the Maiden'.

Dancing is the normal prelude to intercourse.

I just love feeling myself, and moving, flexing, jumping, expressing, dancing and doing movement. I'm in tune with it. I like to express myself with my body, more so than intellectually. But, I am a geek.

My favorite way to dance is being swept off my feet by somebody who doesn't know how to dance.

I dance with the dancers.