Ann Reinking Quotes

I was very interested in vaudeville. It was the only sort of discipline that was a five-minute act on stage, which is what I really enjoyed and saw myself doing. And I bought books on it.

I have a penchant for playing God's clowns. Actually, I played Nijinsky once, and he used to call himself God's clown.

I competitively ice skate, and I also dance, and I do a lot of theater, which also involves a lot, a lot of physicality, because you have to do a lot of fast changes.

Dancing is my number one love. That was my first goal as a child. I would love to do stage, maybe do Chicago. I love being in front of an audience. It's so stimulating. I also love to barbecue.

I love Buster Keaton. I was a big fan of the stunt shows at Universal Studios. I'm a huge Cirque du Soleil nut.

On Saturday afternoons, there was a film, of course, and then we did about four shows between the films. And I would do a tap dance, a little military tap.

I studied dancing for 13 years. And loved to dance. Always wanted to dance with Fred Astaire.

All theater is dance.

I would love to do a musical. Something old-fashioned, probably.

In Broadway, we do love jazz hands.

I was a dancer for many years. I was a premier dancer with 'Porgy and Bess,' the opera. And I taught dance some, in different places.

There's a scene in 'Singin' in the Rain' where this guy dances with a giant doll while singing 'Make 'Em Laugh.' I remember loving the pure physicality of it.

The world's a stage, & everything else is Vaudeville.

I love musicals; I love the ballet, opera, the circus. It's all performance to me.

Physical comedy is my favorite thing in the world to do.

My dad photographed a lot of beautiful dancers. My mom was a dancer.

I dug up my dad's old Fred Astaire tapes, and now I find him super-inspiring. He's, like, one of the best dancers.

If I was on Broadway, I would want to do anything Vaudeville or a biopic.

I danced with the London Festival at Covent Garden. I'm a ballerina by trade; I'm a ballerina who sings by the way.

And what would be great numbers in a Broadway show are now on stage of the New York City Ballet.

I was a professional ballerina. After becoming an actress, I did a lot of theater, which included musical theater. The first musical play I did was Murray Schisgal's 'The Pushcart Peddlers.'

No one around me was obsessed with Fred Astaire except for me. It just snowballed, really. I started with tap lessons. When I didn't have tap shoes, I taped nickels on the bottom of my penny loafers.

I love all of the arts. I love motion pictures. I love stage. I love theater.

I very much like dance and dancers.

Dance, vaudeville, drama, movies - as a child I loved everything that went on in a theater.