BOB FOSSE

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

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

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.

My life is an open pamphlet.

I'm still ambivalent about Hollywood. I think that's why I made 'Star 80.' To deal with the ambivalence. I really wanted to succeed Gene Kelly, and I thought it was a fair bet.

Dance expresses joy better than anything else.

In my next lifetime, I want to come back as a composer.

Live like you'll die tomorrow, work like you don't need the money, and dance like nobody's watching.

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

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.

If you think you can do better, then do better. Don't compete with anyone; just yourself.

I thank God that I wasn't born perfect.

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

Choreography is writing on your feet.

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.

Life is just a bowl of cherries, don't take it serious, its mysterious. Life is just a bowl of cherries, so live and laugh and laugh at love, love a laugh, laugh and love.

I'm still ambivalent about Hollywood. I think that's why I made 'Star 80.' To deal with the ambivalence. I really wanted to succeed Gene Kelly, and I thought it was a fair bet.

Directors are never in short supply of girlfriends.

In my next lifetime, I want to come back as a composer.

I drink too much, I smoke too much, I take pills too much, I work too much, I girl around too much, I everything too much.

Live like you'll die tomorrow, work like you don't need the money, and dance like nobody's watching.

My life is an open pamphlet.

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.

They may not know what I'm doing, but they know I'm doing something!

The energy doesn't end at the hands. I want such intensity that it feels like light is streaming from every finger.

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

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

Don't dance for the audience; dance for yourself.

Dance expresses joy better than anything else.