Ann Reinking Quotes

In Broadway, we do love jazz hands.

I watched 'A Chorus Line' over and over when I was growing up, to the point that I was able to recite the entire movie.

The fun thing about 'Chicago' is that there's so much dance and, very specifically, Roxie. So you might see a little bit of Roxie on the Sugarland stage. Who knows.

If I hadn't decided to be a fashion designer, I would have loved to be a Broadway showgirl or a Rockette!

I was in 'Rent,' for God's sake. The closest we came to stunts was dancing on a table.

I really feel confident about my dancing now, so I hope there could be a place for me in the West End or on Broadway - maybe a musical, maybe my own show.

I wanna get backup singers, but I don't think I will ever get backup dancers.

My dancers are the real stars.

I realized that 'performing' was what I wanted to do when I did my first professional gig as a dancer with my company 'Synergy' in Canada. I was overwhelmed with how it felt to perform in front of an audience.

I love to sing! To be in a movie with musical number is the coolest thing ever!

What musicals need is a new me.

Paul Taylor's 'Offenbach Overtures' has lots of zip and charm, and its pair of dueling soldiers in red, who end up starry-eyed about each other while their disgusted seconds take up the quarrel, is nonstop funny.

Ideally if I settled down with a wife I would love to form my own troupe of mini dancers!

I danced with the London Festival at Covent Garden. I'm a ballerina by trade; I'm a ballerina who sings by the way.

My dream role would be anything where I get to tap-dance.

I sing and dance. That's my job.

The choreographer for the Milton Berle show wanted me to audition. I walked away from that.

I was knocked out by the show, Chicago.

I started dancing when I saw Fred Astaire in 'Flying Down to Rio,' at approximately nine years old. Fred Astaire influenced me, more than anything, to be in 'show business.'

When the audition for 'Cats' came up, even though I'd been making pop records, it felt like something I was attracted to.

I think someone like Carmen Electra would be great in 'Peepshow.' Really, though, I think anyone who can sing and dance would be great.

Everyone knows 'Smash' is about musical numbers, and everyone knows we have fantastic dance sequences and great performances.

The actual cheerleaders in our film are all Broadway dancers.

Seeing the road show of 'A Chorus Line' in 1977 at the Orpheum Theater in downtown Memphis was a life-changing event for me: there were gay people, on the stage, and they all lived in New York.

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.