Jennifer Nettles Quotes

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.

I would love to do a musical. Something old-fashioned, probably.

Chorus Line' opened things up a bit. Any show that's successful does that. But 'Chorus Line' was about dancers.

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

In Broadway, we do love jazz hands.

I was a Spanish dancer. I don't mean to put that down, because that was great, too, but nothing like the kind of dancing you had to do in 'West Side Story,' which was called jazz.

I grew up being a dancer, so I was always doing some sort of dance number, like the Tornado in 'The Wiz.'

I love 'Cabaret' and 'George M!' They're both incredible as far as I'm concerned.

Musicals spring forth from minstrelsy, vaudeville, melodramas; it was all these things combined to create the form.

I've taken classes most of my life, and it's no secret among my friends I want to be in a movie about dance. Maybe 'Step Up 2,' with the delightful Channing Tatum.

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

I prefer musicals, because I am the best dancer who ever lived. The best plies, the best sashays, and by far the best-smelling Capezios.

Musicals have clearly gotten more physical. You never saw Ethel Merman doing step aerobics.

My first vocation was dance.

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

I love dancing; I adore salsa dancing and wish I could be in a Broadway chorus.

I actually sing horribly, but I used to dance pretty good. I was a gymnast, and you can usually use those gymnastic tricks with dance. Plus, they're so much fun to do. That wasn't really a big part of my career. It was just a phase.

Being known for musicals is a great thing.

I was more of a dancing kid than a singing kid. I mean, I sang in school choirs and I sang in school musicals, but I was much more interested in dancing than singing.

The musical theater is a glorious and distinctly American innovation in the history of theater.

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

I like 'Guys and Dolls,' 'Singin' in the Rain' and 'A Star Is Born.' When it works, a musical is an amazing thing. But it rarely works.

I started dancing when I was four years old and then was in class until I was about 20 years old or so, and then primarily was dancing just in shows that I was doing, but not really studying and training.

Astaire never thought of what he was doing as balletic, but Kelly was always trying to dance with women on points. And his choreography is so showy and flashy. He always looks self-satisfied to me.

Bubbles was a very good dancer. Tremendous dancer. He was one of our leading dancers of the country at that time. And, of course, he didn't have much of a voice.