- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dance Quotes
On movement, passion, and dancing like it matters.
This collection treats dance as something closer to survival than hobby, one dancer describing it as a need felt in the body, another urging full presence in the moment rather than dwelling on past or future. See Dancer quotes for more.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother and my father always had me in ballet and dance, and I sang in a girl's group.
- Perfect
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a London play, rehearsal time would be four weeks for the entire show. In films, I'd spend six weeks on the big dance numbers to get them perfect before the actual shooting.
- Literally
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- Nov 07, 2020
I collaborated on most of my dance numbers, literally 50/50, with the choreographers I worked with.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Oftentimes, I feel like the clock is on, and there's money at stake, and you gotta get up there and dance for grandma, and it better be great, and you better get it right.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always a show-off with my friends; we used to have interpretive dance nights to Christina Milian and Sean Paul where we’d film it.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
But I think there's a genuine joy, too, a sense that no matter what, even if my stomach's growling, I'm going to dance. That's what I want to leave people with at the end of the play. After all this, people still know how to live.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been this voice of a lot of upbeat dance tracks, but people don't really know me.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many of the writers I admire - Melville, Dickinson, Kafka - were virtually invisible during their lifetimes. Art, I think, often has to dance around in the void.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd go dance at talent shows, and because I was young I had the upper hand on a lot of other crews. People thought it was cute. I used that to my advantage.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm from Texas and actually went to a regular high school, but every day after school I'd run to dance class and practice a lot and then go back the next day and stuff like that.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020