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If I had a rain prayer or a rain dance I could do, I would do it.

If I had to give up either acting or dancing, I'd choose to keep dancing.

I focus on having a feminine body, a dancer's body. I do resistance and dance and cardio. I like hiking, swimming, being active. It clears your mind and it's a good way to decompress.

If one had to define one essential gift with which a dancer needs to be endowed, there might be a rush of answers. A beautiful body, grace of line, graciousness of spirit, joy in the work, ability to please, unswerving integrity, relentless ambition towards some abstract perfection. Certainly all these factors determine a dancer's character, and every element exists in some combination within the performing artist's presence.

If that's all there is, my friends, then let's keep dancing.

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

If we seek the real source of the dance, if we go to nature, we find that the dance of the future is the dance of the past, the dance of eternity, and has been and always will be the same... The movement of waves, of winds, of the earth is ever the same lasting harmony.

If you ask an Auin Bushman what realty happens at the puberty ceremonials, he will tell you, "We dance." In the initiation customs of all peoples the dances play an especially important part. The dance is the center of wedding festivities.

If you can't be a good example, you'll just have to be a horrible warning." -Gwen Goodnight

If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.

If you can walk, you can run.

... if you desire to marry you must realize that a mistress is won by the good temper and grace displayed while dancing... for dancing is practiced to reveal whether lovers are in good health and sound of limb, after which they are permitted to kiss their mistresses in order that they may touch and savor one another thus to ascertain if they are shapley or emit an unpleasant odor as of bad meat. Therefore, from this standpoint, quite apart from the many other advantages to be derived from dancing, it becomes an essential to a well-ordered society.

If you dance, you dance because you have to. Every dancer hurts, you know.

If you don't do your dance, who will?

If you fail to prepare you prepare to fail.

If you have a voice, sing; but if you have good arms, then go in for dancing.

If you never want to see the face of hell, when you come home from work every night, dance with your kitchen towel and, if you're worried about waking up your family, take off your shoes.

If you're not messing up every now and then at practice, you're not doing anything above your ability to progress.

If your only dance experience is the Nutcracker, it will be a shock; hopefully shocking in a good way.

If you're looking for a deep album or you're looking for me to talk about past situations, it's not even about that. It's just 14 hot records that are gonna make you dance.

If you're skating on thin ice, you might as well dance.

If you want to understand a nation, look at its dances and listen to its folk songs - don't pay any attention to its politicians.

I had longed to be a butterfly, and I was one at last. I attended private parties in sumptuous evening dress, simpered and aired my graces like a born beau, and polkaed and schoisched with a step peculiar to myself - and the kangaroo.

I get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.

I got married and decided I wanted to do a dance record, and I didn't ever expect for it to be what it was or for the 'No Doubt' thing to be such a long break, but it was one of those things where you just had to sort of follow your inspiration.

I had certain physical limitations that made me change the choreography for myself or made me more interested in choreography only rather than dancing. I have never been a person who wanted to just dance. I have always been interested in developing for other people.

I go with the flow. Whatever music you play for me, I'll dance.

I have come to the conclusion that it is better to be silent than to speak.

I had to learn to dance for 'The Adjustment Bureau' and it was nearly impossible. I turned up with my knees knocking in my leotard and went home and cried my eyes out.

I have always added dance to my productions. When I was directing theatre, I added dance sequences where they didn't exist in the play. I think dance is the ultimate form of expression.

I have performed for thousands when they found me exotic, the vogue, daring, but I have danced, at any given time, for about ten people... They were the ones that left the theater forever different from the way they were when they came in. All of my long, long life, I have danced for those ten.

I have no desire to prove anything by my work. I have never used it as an outlet or as a means of expressing myself. I just dance.

I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.

I have two favorite songs. My first is called 'Dance of The Robe' and it's a very powerful number where she is feeling the pressure from her people to take on the responsibility of leading them.

I have the same opinion of dances that physicians have of mushrooms: the best of them are good for nothing.

I just sort of wish people would dance differently. It reminds me of teenage sex.

I intend to work for this dance of the future. I do not know whether I have the necessary qualities; I may have neither genius nor talent nor temperament. But I know that I have a Will; and will and energy sometimes prove greater than either genius or talent or temperament.

I just know that when I go onstage, I give everything I have, not only my feet, not only my legs, not only my body. I try to tell a story. Sometimes I am able to cry because I feel like it. Sometimes I am able to love because I feel like it.

I know I have to be like people expect, because people love to dream with me, they like to think that I love my boat of 50 metres, that I drink Cristal for breakfast, that I dance until five o'clock in the morning. I am not like that.

I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography.

I like to dance, but it's not my weekend activity. I'm not a clubber.

I learned to act by watching Martha Graham dance, and I learned to dance by watching Charlie Chaplin act.

I like the most provocative and most surprising partnerships on stage. Intensity and surprise.

I love a long bath. I love anything creative. I love decorating. I even love just flipping through magazines and vegging out for a while. But I'm also one of those people who loves to work, so I'll sing, dance, work on my next performance, or write whomever it may be about a new idea.

I'll dance to anything: Bob Marley or rap.

I loved dancing with a delirious 'I wish I could die' passion, especially when the music appealed to me ... but alas! only one in ten partners had any notion of time, and what made it worse, the nine were always behind, never before the beat. ... Sometimes I would firmly seize smaller, lighter partners by the scruff of the neck, so to speak, and whirl them along in the way they should go, but I saw they were not enjoying themselves, and oddly enough I wanted these wretches to like dancing with me.

I love the whole world of dance, because dancing is really the emotions through bodily movement. And however you feel, you just bring out the inner feeling through your mood...people don't think about the importance of it.

I love to dance in the disco, but that's about it.

I love to dance and I'd love to be saying goodbye to my friends while the band was playing and they were dancing...I want them to remember I was a dancing man in my day.

I'm not going to be dancing with the stars at this stage in my life. But I want to dance and bop around, and I did, and I can.