Top 55 Dances Quotes

The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God – if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That’s what I think.

I wouldn’t get asked to dances because I wasn’t as petite and cute as the other girls.

People talk about Bollywood being very kitsch, and just songs and dances, and over the top and colorful.

Victor Young had been hired to write the score for the dances of The Ten Commandments but he became very ill. You were then hired to write the score. But at the same time you’d written The Man with the Golden Arm score.

I was obsessed with Chubby Checker and old dances, like the twist.

When I’m dancing, I’m not thinking about anything. I am here. I am totally there. You know? And the feeling is a sensation of being away from myself. My soul dances with the angels, and my body dances with my wife.

No, but way before that, I’ve been doing little dances in movies for years. Yeah, that was an amazing chance. You know, at my age to be able to do a music dance video, very unusual.

The film is a romance with songs and dances, aimed at a family audience.

Human knowledge has been changing from the word go and people in certain respects behave more rationally than they did when they didn’t have it. They spend less time doing rain dances and more time seeding clouds.

I love doing stunts, though I have to be careful with my back. As for dances, somehow I am uncomfortable doing them. I lack grace.

I remember, at the Oscars in 1991, ‘Dances with Wolves’ won that year, and we were nominated for ‘Goodfellas.’ One of my peers said to me, ‘Why’d you make that bad jump cut?’ I said, ‘Which one? We had about 20 in the film!’ He was really upset about it.

I did pretty good for a guy who never finished high school and used to yodel at square dances.

‘Rangeela’ and ‘Daud’ are both exciting films. The songs, the music, the dances – they all blend so well.

Justin Timberlake, Britney Spears all the rappers, they’re doing my dances and they’re making billions doing my dances. When they do that little thing they do with their hands that’s The Fly and The Pony.

You can go pretty much anywhere in the world, and people know ‘Beat It.’ When I was growing up, you heard it everywhere. I remember being a kid and going to school dances and stuff, and they always played it.

I’ve grown up with bhangra and Haryanvi folk dances.

My dear dad always tried to introduce me to children of his friends, but I just never took to them. Those were the people we were shoved with at school dances, usually Eton boys because it was the cleverest boys’ school, and ours was supposed to be the cleverest girls’ school.

When I started making dances in the ’60s, narrative dance was sort of off the radar screen. What was important at the time in the avant-garde was minimalism.

I was writing from the age of 10, and I was never really into going to discos and dances and stuff. I never told anyone at school that I did that because I feared it would alienate me even more.

Other dances are like languages, like French or Spanish, but my steps are slang, and slang is always changing.

Beyonce moves a lot. She’s astonishing, dances and sings at the same time. She is buff.

I’ve always tried to come up with funny dancing since I was young, to attract girls’ attention for one thing. It’s got to be funny. I can’t pull it off with serious dances. That’s not me.

I have about 4 albums of Disney songs, but the embarrassing part is that I know each song word for word, and have dances choreographed for most.

A large chunk of my free time during high school was spent in my basement playing ‘Halo.’ That was all I wanted to do. School dances? For the birds. It was Master Chief or bust. And I wouldn’t change anything.

The reason we did ‘Land of a Thousand Dances’ and ‘Gloria’ on ‘Horses’ was because I liked repetitious, three-chord rock songs, but I didn’t understand that I could write my own. I didn’t realize that you could use those chords a million times.

‘Seven Sonatas,’ with its flowing series of meetings between men and women in an identifiable emotional world, is in the mould of Jerome Robbins’ glorious ‘Dances at a Gathering.’

Steps come up all the time, but not dances.

If I only made dances about my own experience in dance, it would always be on my track, and I don’t want that, I want to be on the track of where dance can take me.

Keep on doing things that I do – ‘Beat It’ dances, splits, excitement, keeping the smile going. That’s what I got to do to keep up with that ‘Outlandish’ nickname, because I am outlandish, after all.

I don’t like the Samba; it’s nonsense. With a lot of these Latin dances I can’t really understand what they’re all about. I like the Rumba and the Paso Doble but the others I could take or leave.

I use the computer as a tool. Like chance or the camera or the other tools I’ve used, it can open my eye to other ways of seeing or of making dances. It’s not simply to do a trick.

We always describe a piece as ‘really lively’ where it seems the work dances off the paper or the silk. Art has to hit you on an emotional level rather than just the analytical.

Laurence Fishburne – he’s a great actor, but he dances and sings, too? He can just do everything.

I love the ’40s. I love the ’50s. I love the style, I love the clothes. I love how the women looked. I love the dances. I love the music. I love the amber of the light. I’m just in love with the cars. I’m in love with all of it.

I went to an all-girls’ school with 43 people in my class, so dances were small. I always went with girlfriends or a blind date.

Meryl Streep’s brilliant, just brilliant. I’ve been fortunate to do two movies with Meryl. And for an actor to go moment to moment like she does, there’s no one better. And she dances between moments. Each take is different because she’s riding instincts, she’s riding impulses. And she trusts that.

I had a Jackson 5 wig that I would wear around, and I would do, like, the dances from the Jackson 5, and, you know, my mother thought that was hysterical. So of course, that seed got planted very early, the physicality of comedy.

There are dances you can do separately – your charleston, your jive.

Every girl likes to just rock out when they put music on in their room – I learned that personally when fans would tell us how much they loved to make up their own dances to Cheetah Girls songs.

I think some of my favorite Australian films were shot by people that are not Australian. And I think when Dean Semler did ‘Dances with Wolves,’ for instance, that’s a very different-looking Western than what you’ve seen much of before. It’s very rich, color-wise. But we’ve got our own very proud thing going on.

I have a beautiful, young wife who sings and dances, so there’s a lot of duetting going on at my house.

I am the ‘Cosmic Dancer’ who dances his way out of the womb and into the tomb on ‘Electric Warrior.’ I’m not frightened to get up there and groove about in front of six million people on TV because it doesn’t look cool. That’s the way I would do it at home.

I’ve been a DJ since I was about 13, and I started out as a hip-hop DJ. So I was always playing records that would just get people going. I was just doing parties and high school dances and whatever, and then, progressively, I started making my own music, writing little songs here and there, but it was never anything crazy.

I’m a big fan of regular school and regular education. I just learn better in a classroom where I can talk to other students. I want to go to prom and dances and have that social aspect.

I’m quite proud of growing up in New Zealand where, from quite early on in primary school, you’re learning to count in Maori, Maori mythology and dances and colours and history, and I think that gives a child a really good grounding.

Who cares if somebody dances better? Doing my very best is rewarding internally.

I’ve been entrepreneurial since middle school. I was always arranging bake sales, dances and school trips to raise money for the Dalton School.

I love going to football games and going to homecoming dances and just doing normal things.

I guess after Dances With Wolves they probably tried some derivative westerns, and if they didn’t work, they said the western is dead and moved on to something else.

Critics have called alien epic ‘Avatar’ a version of ‘Dances With Wolves’ because it’s about a white guy going native and becoming a great leader. But Avatar is just the latest scifi rehash of an old white guilt fantasy.

I don’t feel the need to direct. I tried to get other people to direct Dances, but they wouldn’t do it. They all thought it was too long. One director wanted to cut the Civil War sequence. Another thought the white woman was very cliched.

Almost every other Western in the last ten years has failed, since Dances with Wolves.

I love the way in which I make up dances. It’s a complicated way and the product is usually clear. Clear and simple. I don’t need everybody to know that there are all of these fabulous things going on. If you CAN see it, that’s wonderful.