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Dance keeps me fit! It's been a huge benefit in my life and it will forever be a part of me.
If Hitler were alive the best punishment would be to put him out-of-town with a new musical.
I can be myself everywhere and be happy and confident and not feel that I am just what I do.
I have a really good family. I'm lucky to have people who support me and love me in my life.
Modern dancers should be doing things no one else is doing, and it should come from the gut.
Alone is a fact, a condition where no one else is around. Lonely is how you feel about that.
Oh, God! That boy moves in a very exceptional way. That's the greatest dancer of the century.
Strive for perfection. Nobody's going to be perfect on this earth. But strive for perfection.
The paparazzi and the press have given me a voice. No matter how I got the voice, it's there.
I don't deal in terminology, I deal with expressions: colors, shapes, tones, characteristics.
I like to express myself inside of the work that is given, and I let the dancers do the same.
There is obviously a power and a truth in action that doesn't lie, which words easily can do.
if you want to create art, you'd best have a deep belief in yourself and no ulterior motives.
I've never seen a Lindy Hopper who wasn't smiling. It's a happy dance. It makes you feel good.
I want to know who you are as a person, and then I want you to develop as a whole human being.
Tap's foundation is jazz, just like hip-hop, so relating tap-dancing to rap is natural for me.
That's what improvising is like for me. There's no tollbooth between my impulse and my action.
Actually I do support a charity, DefendersofWildLife.org. They help protect endangered species.
I never played politics, I was never a party girl, and I never slept with any of the producers.
I started my career as a singer in Japan, but left it all behind to focus on my dancing career.
I shall dance all my life. . . . I would like to die, breathless, spent, at the end of a dance.
Go within every day and find the inner strength so that the world will not blow your candle out
You dance because you have to. Dance is an essential part of life that has always been with me.
Dance is a physical and mental workout. Once you get your body moving, you'll see a difference.
Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead
I don't despair about the cultural scene in Australia because there isn't one to despair about.
I was privileged to be able to study a year with Martha Graham, the last year she was teaching.
I don't think that scheduling is uncreative. I think that structure is required for creativity.
If at first you don't succeed/You can dust it off and try again/Dust yourself off and try again.
I believe you can take all experiences and use them as knowledge and fuel to be a better person.
I never wanted to be a dancer. It's true! I wanted to be a shortstop for the Pittsburgh Pirates.
You have to be self-reliant and strong to survive in this town. Otherwise you will be destroyed.
Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead.
I never really thought of myself as a sex goddess; I felt I was more a comedian who could dance.
What I'm trying to do is bring young people into doing tap so that the art form will keep going.
Who is Savion Glover? Who is that guy? Good question. I'm a lot of things... Intense... Focused.
I deal with more complex rhythmical patterns than a regular tap dancer. I even think in rhythms.
I think that anyone who's pushed to do the very best that they can is privileged. It's a luxury.
The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts.
I have discovered the dance. I have discovered the art which has been lost for two thousand years
Each time I leaped I seemed to touch the sky and when I regained earth it seemed to be mine alone.
Since I personified the savage on the stage, I tried to be as civilized as possible in daily life.
I really think that aside from admiring my talent you really admire me as a person and as a woman.
I love being onstage, whether it's dancing or acting - there's just something about being onstage.
The very end of me mom's road is the back entrance to Bray Head. Usually climb it when I get home.
When I was a kid, toe dancing and toe shoes had a meaning in our culture as a serious kind of art.
It's so wonderful... if your whole day is rotten, once they start the music, it seems to melt away.
I'd love to do something where I can act and dance at the same time, like on Broadway or in movies.
I think it's funny when people, they try to imitate the 'Chandelier' video. I think it's hilarious.
I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful.