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I will not accept a role just because a big hero stars in it. I am not here to merely dance, run around trees, and be a glam doll.

Quotes by Nithya Menen

And then you have the classical ballerinas, they're like sopranos. Applied to the dance.

Quotes by Ninette de Valois

Also, if you have an accident, you can't start to dance again at the top, you're too weak; you start with the easy things - the way you did them when you were young, and come up up up, the...

Quotes by Ninette de Valois

Exactly the same with dancing, you can't dance until you've learnt steps, the things your feet can do.

Quotes by Ninette de Valois

When I was 13, I moved from New Jersey to Germany with my family. The high school was so supportive of my dream to continue with my theater training; instead of taking PE, I would get credit for dance lessons.

Quotes by Nina Arianda

I was into opera as a kid - I'd play 'Carmen' and sing and dance. My mom signed me up for a theater group before preschool, and I never looked back.

Quotes by Nina Arianda

There are some good traditions in our culture, one of which is that men dance with women. Soon we will reach the stage where we will all have to publicly apologise for being heterosexual.

Quotes by Niki Lauda

Adam Shankman has got such love and passion for dance.

Quotes by Nigel Lythgoe

I don't go into my dentist and say, 'Are you gay?' I don't say to contestants on 'So You Think You Can Dance,' 'Are you gay?' What does it got to do with me? What does it got to do...

Quotes by Nigel Lythgoe

The dance community suddenly came alive with programs like 'So You Think You Can Dance,' 'America's Best Dance Crew' and 'Dancing With The Stars.'

Quotes by Nigel Lythgoe

We've had nothing but support from everybody in the dance world for a National Dance Day.

Quotes by Nigel Lythgoe

I trained in every form of dance - started as a tap dancer when I was a kid, then contemporary, ballet, ballroom, everything. Russian, Swedish.

Quotes by Nigel Lythgoe

Dancing sometimes you just get your groove on. I can dance. I'm kinda like Michael Jackson.

Quotes by Nick Young

So you can have your program, but you also have to be ready to change it immediately because there are certain kinds of people who like certain kinds of songs and they like - some people want to dance when...

Quotes by Nickolas Ashford

I worked a lot in Chicago's theater scene as a fight choreographer. And so I do have a lot of experience in stage combat and also in Kabuki dance and Kabuki theater.

Quotes by Nick Offerman

Spaniards are fun-loving people, and they love to dance to Punjabi songs for some reason. They didn't understand the language but enjoyed the beats.

Quotes by Nia Sharma

Dance is certainly a sport, and they are phenomenal athletes, and they're also artists.

Quotes by Neve Campbell

Dance is very, very old. With Louis XIV at Versailles is where ballet started.

Quotes by Neve Campbell

I'm 27. I feel like I get it. I'm OK with being sexy if I feel like it. Some days I'm brainy, some days I'm funny, some days I'm sexy, and sometimes, I just want to dance.

Quotes by Nelly Furtado

The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.

Neil Gaiman

Frequently Asked Questions

How intensely do these speakers feel about dance?
Very. One puts it in the strongest possible terms: "if I don't dance, I'd rather die." It's a striking way of showing just how central dance is to their identity.
Is there a quote about living fully in the moment through dance?
Yes, a beautiful one: "think about exactly what you're doing right now and live it and dance it and breath it and be it." It ties dance to a bigger philosophy of presence, not just movement.
What role did dance play growing up, according to these quotes?
For one speaker, it was formative and protective — they "started in dance classes when I was, like, seven years old," and explain the arts more broadly helped keep their "mind focused" growing up in "South Central Los Angeles." For more on the people who make dance their craft, see our Dancer quotes.
Can dance be used to explore ideas beyond just movement?
Yes — one speaker describes a piece meant to translate abstract ideas, referencing Einstein, into movement, explaining they were "trying to convert his ideas into movement." It shows dance can be a way of communicating concepts, not just emotion.
Where can I find more dance-related content?
Our Dance Floor and Dance Music pages capture more of the energy around dancing, and our Dances collection rounds out the theme nicely.

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