Tap Shoes Quotes

I tap dance.

I've tapdanced since I was 11 years old. I always wanted to be a tapdancer, and that's all I ever wanted to be.

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

I'm still tap dancing. I'm still going.

I was a tap dancer as a child, so I understand precision and repetition.

No one around me was obsessed with Fred Astaire except for me. It just snowballed, really. I started with tap lessons. When I didn't have tap shoes, I taped nickels on the bottom of my penny loafers.

I'm just a hoofer with a spare set of tails.

I felt that I didn't want to be in show business anymore. I felt that I wanted to be a farmer. I was milking cows and shoveling terrible stuff and working all day. By the end of the day, all I wanted was my tap shoes - I thought, 'What am I doing? I better get back where I belong on the stage where we work at night and can sleep late!

There probably aren't a lot of actors my age who tap dance.

Before a show, I usually give myself two-and-a-half hours to get ready. I prepare my shoes first. New ballet pumps can sound like tap shoes. You have to take the noise out of them by hitting them against stone. It takes half an hour to do each pair, and I can go through three pairs in one night.

I've always, especially through old Hollywood musicals, loved just to watch tap dancing; I adore it. I think it's fantastic.

My tights split while I was tap dancing in the West End in 1993.

I'm a tap dancer. Once you're a tap dancer, you're always a tap dancer. In 'After Midnight,' I get to dance, but I don't do a full tap number.