Honeymoons are great, but they don't last. And I think the same is true with success on the screen - today, I am all over the place; tomorrow, I may be gone - I may have to make room for someone else. So why make a big song and dance about it all?
I took dance from a very early age, although my first recital, I remember refusing to go onstage. I think I was three. It's funny because that stage was also my high school theater stage.
90% of every art form is garbage - dance and stand-up, painting and music. Focus on the 10% that's good, suck it up, and drive on.
The music industry isn't converging toward dance music. Dance music is dance music. It's been around since disco - and way before disco. But there's different versions of dance music.
Denis Law could dance on eggshells.
The 'Podunk Times' is not going to have a good dance critic, I absolutely promise you that. There's just not enough dance there.
Astaire never thought of what he was doing as balletic, but Kelly was always trying to dance with women on points. And his choreography is so showy and flashy. He always looks self-satisfied to me.
I think Christmas is about celebration and come on, on the inside everyone wants to dance.
We got on American Bandstand, where kids would dance to a record and then rate it. We called ourselves Tom and Jerry. I was Jerry.
I worked as a secretary, a waitress and a dance teacher - all in high school.
This was a time frame when dance music and clubs were having a real impact on culture, and it had an impact on me.
Whenever I like a new song, I play it on loop and dance to it. That's my therapy.
The best thing about working on a movie with dancers is that we would get to have dance parties all the time!
They're not particular about whether you're playing a flatted fifth or a ruptured 129th as long as they can dance to it.
The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.
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.
I think hip-hop is really fun right now... and that's why people are using dance beats and singing more.
In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.
I've studied a lot of great people over the years - Pete Seeger, James Brown - and tried to incorporate elements that I've admired, though I can't say I dance like James.
Dance and I are synonymous, and nobody can take away dance from my life. Also, I cannot look at dance in an inert way; it's my passion, and I get keen on being part of any show or film that has dance!
There's just something about dance. It's like a primal thing in all of us.
I don't want to be known as just a 'Dance Moms' competitor. I'd really like to be known for all of Sia's work, too.
I must confess I knew very little about the trance scene, I'm more house and commercial dance but it was really interesting and different.
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
Because of this high status of the object in our culture, something has to be a thing. Live efforts are almost marginal. I think dance, for example, is just as much a thing, and I want for it to have the same status. I don't want it to be the thing that comes in the evening and is, like, the happy music.
Dance has never been a particularly easy life, and everybody knows that.
I never danced a step in my life so naturally. My first motion picture was a musical, and Bob Fosse was the choreographer. I didn't exactly dance for Fosse, I just did the best that I could to do what he taught us to do.
Coming from dance, I feel acting is - I'm not going to say easy, because it's not. But the dance world is more hard-core.
When you step back and watch people, you realize that we use every single body part. Movement, dance - I find it genius because it's ultimate expression, really.
The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place.
Brazilians love to seduce, to have fun, to dance, to charm. We like a little bit of attention.
My mom couldn't afford dance shoes, so she put me in these old cowboy boots with a hard bottom so I could get some sound out. I used them for seven months. When I finally got real tap shoes, I was nervous. I kept moving my feet, thinking, 'Oh, so this is how it's supposed to sound.'
I wanted to give people - which is fairly bizarre considering my whole life is contemporary dance really - I wanted to give people a really fulfilling sense that they had seen a white classical ballet - in a very pure form.
We always thought the Tom Tom Club could change to anything, but it acquired this image, which was cartoon animation and this real light-hearted dance music.
I never intended to dance in my own work, but we did what had to be done.
If you dance alone on the streets, people might call you crazy, but when so many people dance together, it's a party.
