Quotes about

Musical theatre and film dance

11 quotes

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.

Fred AstaireSteps in Time (autobiography), p. 325, 1959

Everything Fred did, I did backwards.

Long before the dawn of history, long before he could sing or even speak, man danced.

Gene KellyThat's Dancing! (film), 1985

You dance love, and you dance joy, and you dance dreams.

They say dancing is as old as love. Stepping. Swaying. Turning. Bodies moving in rhythm.

Gene KellyThat's Dancing! (film), 1985

If the dance is right, there shouldn't be a single superfluous movement.

If Fred Astaire is the Cary Grant of dance, I'm the Marlon Brando.

Part of the joy of dancing is conversation. Trouble is, some men can't talk and dance at the same time.

Fred Astaire represented the aristocracy, I represented the proletariat.

Some people feel that good dancers are born. All the good dancers I've known have been taught or trained.

It's the primal art. The most physical. The most personal of them all.

Gene KellyThat's Dancing! (film), 1985