Dancing came easy to me.
I’m a phys ed major: that’s ballroom dancing and handball.
Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.
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.
If I do find myself walking up the aisle and dancing at my own wedding reception, I want the first dance to be both spontaneous and dramatic.
Dancing is something I do. Not something I just want to do. It’s something I just do, depending on how I’m feeling. I don’t see myself taking that as just a job.
Having been part of this wonderful show ever since series one, I know all too well what it’s like to perform to the nation on the famous ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ dancefloor.
If you don’t wake up and have your own thing, whether it’s writing or reading or traveling or acting or dancing or singing or being a mother or a father, something that drives you, then it’s all worth nothing. One of the key elements in happiness is purpose.
Psy is fantastic. He’s shifted the planet. He’s got the whole world dancing. And it’s a rarity in this world. Only four people made that happen in history – James Brown, Michael Jackson, yours truly and Psy.
I did have to turn down things in the past, which I was upset about sometimes, but I understood I was part of ‘Strictly Come Dancing.’
There is not a lot of money in competition dancing. There never has been; it’s all about winning the trophies, really. It’s not like golf.
To tell you the truth, my father says I came out of the womb literally singing and dancing, as though there was a spotlight on me. When I ask what I was like when I was little, they just say ‘loud.’
I wouldn’t call myself a dancer. I would never even dance in a club – I can’t move my feet! I’m terribly shy about moving. I feel comfortable in my body, but dancing is like learning another language.
Throughout my life, whenever I thought I’m dancing welI, I’m not.
Dancing was one of the hobbies my brother and I had when we were kids, and dance ended up being the one that stuck. I dropped everything else until that was what was left in the end.
You sail into the harbor, and Staten Island is on your left, and then you see the Statue of Liberty. This is what everyone in the world has dreams of when they think about New York. And I thought, ‘My God, I’m in Heaven. I’ll be dancing down Fifth Avenue like Fred Astaire with Ginger Rogers.’
I don’t see my dancing or acting as two separate things. I don’t define them separately, so I can’t say one has helped the other, It’s all the same thing. More than anything I love being on stage and performing.
There’s actually a song called ‘Vegas Lights,’ which I wanted to be an anthem for Vegas, that represented how I felt when I went to the clubs. I felt this weird energy where everybody was having a good time, and it didn’t matter. Dancing like nobody’s watching. It was kind of beautiful.
I’ve been performing since I came out of the womb. I’ve been dancing and singing since I was a toddler. Acting seemed like a natural progression from that.
I feel like when I do some dance moves during the week or at the house, I’m quicker on my feet. I can react quicker just from dancing.
Denied dancing and musical instruments, slaves expressed a hidden tradition of musicality and poetics by tongue and signal.
I’m not into the gym. I prefer dancing or tennis.
I’m a very impatient person. I love dancing, I love music, and I love eating life.
The logic was, there weren’t too many female comedians, so I thought I might as well try a field that had fewer competitors than the field I was in, which was acting, singing and dancing.
Tap dancing is something I love, and I’ve been working on it to get really good.
People won’t stop painting, just as they won’t stop making music or dancing. This is a facility we have. Children don’t stop doing it or having it. On the other hand, it seems we don’t need painting anymore. Culture is more interested in entertaining people.
Both my brother and I have only had dance experience with ballroom dancing.
I just finished a film with Michael Radford called Dancing at the Blue Iguana.
Younger kids should realize that if dancing is what you wanna do, it’s not always gonna be the easiest thing; you’re not always going to end up dancing for Justin Timberlake right out the gate.
From when I can remember, I wanted to be an actress. I am a die hard fan of dancing and would take my dad’s clothes and my mom’s clothes and dance in front of the mirror. I loved my dad’s clothes, as they had a lot of glitter in them.
I’d love to learn how to foxtrot and cha cha. Believe it or not, I have terrible dancing skills. I can do everything on the ice, but as soon as you put me on the ground, I’m that person that falls down walking off a curb.
I mean, I’m a Ukrainian immigrant from Brooklyn who grew up dancing and playing the violin!
Singing and dancing will never grow old for me – I’d like to do that until I’m… actually, I think I’d like to drop dead onstage. I think that’d be just great.
Shakespeare is rhythmic; he is musical in the sense that he likes poetry, and he’s musical because he constantly refers to settings where there’s singing and dancing.
My mother told me I was dancing before I was born. She could feel my toes tapping wildly inside her for months.
I just remember Stella Tenant and me dancing in Donatella Versace’s bathtub until like four in the morning. It was one of those ‘pinch me’ moments.
So, I’m on ‘Sesame Street,’ walking around with all these monsters, Elmo and his buddies, a whole bunch of chickens, a whole bunch of penguins and a number four dancing about. It was just pure joy, simple, ridiculous fun, stupid joy. There’s no irony. ‘Sesame Street’ is just a crazy great place to be.
We’re in a celebrity culture, and when I turn on the news today I hear about Lindsay Lohan, Tiger Woods and Paris Hilton and the Kardashian sisters and ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ one thing after another, Kate Gosselin’s new body.
There’s no stopping same-sex dancing couples. I don’t understand how people being happy can affect others so much – just let them be.
When all your stuff gets smashed, everybody gives you new stuff. And when you’ve been playing the same guitar since you were like 12, that’s a lot like dancing with somebody else’s wife.
Every act I see, their whole act is choreographed. I’m sick of seeing these dancers. The only reason they have them is they don’t have enough talent to get people dancing themselves.
Football is an art, like dancing is an art – but only when it’s well done does it become an art.
I didn’t see my son the entire time I did ‘Dancing With the Stars.’ The only time I saw Jeffrey was when he came to the show Monday and Tuesday nights to watch me dance. You literally rehearse six to eight hours every single day – 40 to 50 hours a week.
I was terribly shy, but I was always in harmony when I was dancing.
I tried to interest my daughter in dancing, but she didn’t take to it. As a five-year-old, she got lost on the way to her first class. After that she didn’t go to dance class again.
Acting is my number one, but dancing will always be a part of who I am and in my heart. I love doing stunts when they are a part of my acting.
Oh, well, my first love is comedy or singing and dancing.
Steven Spielberg’s ‘The Color Purple’ might as well have been about a bunch of dancing eggplants for all it has to say about black history.
Ballroom dancing: it’s a wonderful thing at so many levels because you’ve got to follow the rules. They used to call those rules etiquette once upon a time, but you don’t really have that any more.
Dancing – however you do it, even if it’s in your living room – is a great workout.
When it comes to acting, you really have to create movement which in some ways is dancing. And dancing, I feel is very important to act as well. I wouldn’t put one over the other.
I absolutely love to relax and have fun. I like socializing; I like chatting. I like dancing, mixing with friends.
I’m a terrible singer, but I’m not shy about it. I’m shy about dancing.
I used to a lot. I used to go dancing.
And, of course, they’ve always condemned dancing. You know, you might touch a member of the opposite sex. And you might get excited and you might do something natural.
I’m so bad at dancing that I’ve actually been in two movies where the director of the film saw me dancing and thought it was so funny that in one movie they had me do it as the mental dancing of a real simple person. The other one was, like, to-be-laughed-at dancing. That’s how bad my dancing is.
Dance kind of was always just a part of my natural state as a child. It’s something that, whenever music was playing, I was dancing.
Even if I make a gospel album, my gospel songs are going to get you dancing and crunk.
I don’t know what else you could do that is more vulnerable – maybe dancing – than singing.
I actually like pole dancing! It gives you so much confidence. I never thought I’d do it, but now I’m really into it.
At nine years old, I was presented an opportunity to move to Toronto to train for pairs dancing. As soon as I heard that that’s what it entailed, I was out of there. It’s like a past life. I hung up my skates and never looked back.
