Best 13 quotes of Bob Fosse on MyQuotes

Choreography is writing on your feet.

Dance expresses joy better than anything else.

Directors are never in short supply of girlfriends.

Human beings are born with the instinct to express themselves through movement. Even before he could communicate with words, primitive man was dancing to the beat of his own heart.

I am not an educated person. I didn't come up through a ballet company. I came up through burlesque. So I have a lot of inferiority feelings concerning my own lack of education, my entry into show business. I'm not a Baryshnikov. I'm not a Nureyev. I came up in vaudeville. Strippers. So I've always had these feelings. But I think they've also helped me.

I like attractive people who aren't so terribly aware that they are attractive... people who aren't afraid to roll on the floor and make fools out of themselves.

In today's world, everything seems like some sort of long audition.

I thank God that I wasn't born perfect.

I think Balanchine and Robbins talk to God and when I call, he's out to lunch.

Mary Martin was Broadway's biggest closet king. Everyone thought Ethel (Merman) was butch and maybe a lesbian, but she wasn't. And everyone thought that lovely little Mary was Miss Femme, and she was -- except next to her gay husband. In other words, don't judge a star by her cover.

She not only kept her lovely figure, she's added so much to it.

The time to sing is when your emotional level is just too high to speak anymore, and the time to dance is when your emotions are just too strong to only sing about how you feel.

You spend your whole life trying to get known and then you spend the rest of it hiding in the toilet.