Gene Kelly Quotes

My small experience on 'Dancing with the Stars' allowed me to slowly appreciate the Waltz and Viennese Waltz, but to see it in Vienna is something much different.

I have a background in theater - I went to school for theater. I love film - love it - but there's just something about theater that I really miss.

I grew up in music theater playing to the audience - singing and dancing and showing off. That's really my background. But the camera's different. I think I'm more at home on stage.

Performing in each city is a different experience. But somehow, New York is unique. It is like performing in the entertainment capital of the world.

While I love dancing, and even acting in 'ABCD' - 'Anybody Can Dance' - was fun, I remain, at heart, a choreographer.

I'll be honest: I've never wanted to do anything other than perform.

My absolute dream goal is to dance with Beyonce on stage.

Aside from singing, I'm also a dancer. I've been dancing since I was 8.

We couldn't even contemplate doing 'Hairspray' without a live audience.

I love to create something new every night onstage; that makes a big difference.

I definitely post a lot of memes and content that's isolated to Twitter that I wouldn't be able to do on stage because a live crowd doesn't have that same frame of reference.

I actually grew up being part of the kids' choirs, so I knew 'Joseph' basically my entire life. We've brought in this new multimedia aspect that really makes the show jump off the stage and into the audience.

Among my classical dances, I loved my 'Mrig Trishna' dance. People should try that on stage. I don't know why they don't. It's beautifully written.

I do think image is important in a band, because when I go see a show, I want to see a show; I don't want to just listen to the music.

There is really nothing like seeing a live stage performance.

Once you become a professional, to get through a ballet like 'Swan Lake' - four acts as the lead, changing character - the perseverance is incredible. It takes a lot to make it through and keep the same energy throughout the entire performance.

I love theater - it's where every actor should begin, the core of acting. But I feel that there's something about film that's captivating; it takes you to another, and you get to really be so connected with it.

The masks, for us, are more of a way to present ourselves live, you know?

Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture.

One of my favorite moments is onstage, when you see a dancer leap, and you think they're flying, and then they fall. It's that moment of suspension that you look for, and sometimes you get it and sometimes you don't.

Musicals are good times. I live to do a musical, there's nothing like it, no experience like that in the movie business. You don't get to pull all those triggers at the same time doing anything else. Nothing pulls that from you. Dancing, acting and singing is like "Alright, I gotta fire on all cylinders right now" because that's what it requires. It's fun getting to exercise all those muscles.

If you mess up the performance on stage, you do it again the next night. You're like alright, you let yourself off the hook, and you've got to go back in there. Whereas, with a film, I would go home and be like, "Well, I've ruined the arc of the character forever. That scene is never going to work. I know because I can never shoot it again." So, it's all miserable, but in different ways.

In a stage play, you kill the leads and they come out for a bow - in a movie, they don't come out for a bow, they're dead.

Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser

Performing in a live theater is absolutely unbeatable. It is something I have done my entire life and have a gift, it seems, for sharing thoughts live.