I am a professional dancer, so picking up dance steps was like brushing my teeth.
Professional dancers are known for their barely-there costumes.
Dancers are both athletes and artists.
Some people think that movements, such as the movements in ballet, are a higher cultural expression, whereas some are just dirt. I think it is elitist to think that a trained movement is more acceptable than untrained and possibly unrehearsed movements.
I'm a fantastic dancer!
Dance is such a wonderful, universal expression, even if the bugle beads are wrong.
I wasn't a dancer learning to play Baby Houseman. I was Baby Houseman learning to play a dancer. I was someone who'd never done any Latin dance. I'd taken jazz classes and ballet growing up in New York, so I had dance in me, and I knew I loved it, but I'd never done a dance audition.
I do everything I know how in a dance.
I started under my master, Etienne Decroux, who taught me a new grammar for mime he called statuary mime. This grammar brings style creations. Without it, no art survives.
I wanted to be a professional dancer for a period of time, and I did a lot of dancing and choreography and got paid for it.
I became a dancer in self-defense. I was doing a comedy monologue and didn't know how else to get off, so I danced off. I've been dancing ever since, but I'm still a comedian.
Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
For ballet dancers, style is about melding personal expression with physical form.
Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart. The instrument through which the dance speaks is also the instrument through which life is lived ... the human body.
When you dance and move around it creates a different reaction from the audience - they love it.
We are constantly revealing ourselves to each other through our movement; learning from and teaching each other without even trying.
When I started, there was a very strong image of what the ballerina was supposed to be in her tights and her costume, and then I started doing photo shoots in bomber boots, and it wasn't seen as the done thing.
Coming from dance, I feel acting is - I'm not going to say easy, because it's not. But the dance world is more hard-core.
Dancing: The Highest Intelligence in the Freest Body.
Baseball is a ballet without music. Drama without words.
I can't make up my mind whether I want to dance like Josef Brown or dance with Josef Brown.
If somebody asks, "What is a dance?" how can you define it? But you can dance and you can know the inner feel of it.
I taught and studied dance in college, and for over a decade, I thought that would be my career: tap dancer, ballet dancer, modern dancer. I still find myself doing some tumbling or interpretive dancing in the grocery store every now and then.
Dance looks absurd on film, I think, like little puppets moving around.
There are times when the simple dignity of movementcan fulfill the function of a volume of words.
