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I've done a lot of dance sequences because I like them; I like to animate dancing because it's fun and visual.

Quotes by Genndy Tartakovsky

Actors fall into this trap if they missed being loved for who they really were and not for what they could do - sing, dance, joke about - then they take that as love.

Quotes by Gene Wilder

A real New Yorker is always someone who came here from somewhere else to avoid some kind of persecution, often sexual-preference based, or to be discovered in one of the infinite-though-no-longer-thriving alternative scenes, i.e. theater, music, dance, vaudeville, art, drag,...

Quotes by Genesis P-Orridge

I'd studied dance in Chicago every summer end taught it all winter, and I was well-rounded. I wasn't worried about getting a job on Broadway. In fact, I got one the first week.

Quotes by Gene Kelly

I wanted to do new things with dance, adapt it to the motion picture medium.

Quotes by Gene Kelly

I know my body. What happened is that I got so caught up in the applause I forgot how I should dance. All my life I've been what others wanted - in dancing and in life. Now I'm doing it...

Quotes by Gelsey Kirkland

I ended up doing a local AmDram musical when I was nine or so. We had to sing and dance and act. It was probably terrible, but I loved it.

Quotes by Gemma Chan

I am not a dancer. In fact, I have no formal training in dance.

Quotes by Gautam Rode

I'm a teller of stories. I put bloody skins on my back and dance around the fire, and I say what the hunt was like. It's not erudite; it's not intellectual. I sail, run dogs, ride horses, play professional poker,...

Quotes by Gary Paulsen

It's always been my dream to do a dance scene with Anthony Hopkins.

Quotes by Gary Sinise

I started dancing when I was about 15 or 16 in my high school drama club, and then I liked it so much that they offered dual enrollment classes. So my senior year, I ended up taking college dance courses...

Quotes by Garrett Clayton

I go with the flow. Whatever music you play for me, I'll dance.

Quotes by Gael Garcia Bernal

When I was still a student, I came out of a performing arts high school, and the female students who were doing traditional dance and ballet were so beautiful. They were beautiful, starting from their postures.

Quotes by G-Dragon

I just listened to regular commercial music from Korea. I would just follow the choreographed dance routines. I didn't have any ambitions of pursuing rapping. I liked dancing, so I did that.

Quotes by G-Dragon

I wouldn't want to do a Bollywood film per se, but I would like to do an Indian-language film. For some reason I think Bollywood has become synonymous with commercial cinema, which is song and dance and everything that is...

Quotes by Freida Pinto

I'm the same guy at that podium preaching to the people on every single song. I'm not doing a dance for you on another song. It's all a direct assault.

Quotes by Fred Durst

In Hungary all native music, in its origin, is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance.

Quotes by Franz Liszt

I have no desire to prove anything by dancing. I have never used it as an outlet or a means of expressing myself. I just dance. I just put my feet in the air and move them around.

Quotes by Fred Astaire

This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.

Quotes by Fred Astaire

My wife says that I become different once I start to work with animals. My movements become different, my mood is different. It involves letting everything fall behind you, becoming intuitive in your dealings with wild creatures in a way...

Quotes by Frans Lanting

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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