Ann Miller Quotes

I think dancing is contributed hugely to how I am as an actor, just a level of comfort in my body and in movement. Things can become strangely physically technical when you're acting, and often something that just feels so unnatural is actually what you need to do in a certain scene.

I'm not naturally a gifted dancer, and I don't enjoy it. I didn't go to any of those classes in drama school 'cause I was like, "I'm not going to dance. I don't need to learn to dance." I regret that.

As unnatural as dancing is, you have to find a natural way to do the unnatural.

All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.

I've always believed that the facts about dancing are more interesting than the myths, and this was a great chance for me to explore how the human body does such incredible things.

When I was a dancer, I was acting.

Movement is expressive. I've never denied that. I don't think there's such a thing as abstract dance.

I'm good in front of the camera in terms of speaking or entertaining or being humorous, but when it comes to dancing, you really got to know your stuff in order to be confident. You can freeze up or get stiff, and it's just not a good situation.

My first love is acting, but dancing comes naturally to me.

I have such a respect and fascination for dance. I can be light as air or stay grounded. Dance is really another universe.

I've been trained in dancing and I used to be quite good, though I am a bit rusty right now. But I could probably brush up in a couple of months.

I think because I am a physical person, and because my way of expressing and performing and storytelling or explaining has always been with my body, if I can combine the two I find it really liberating.

My acting style and my physicality lends itself to doing things like putting a scene together for a dancing competition.

Man has used human rhythmic movement as raw material out of which to create works of art, as the composer of music uses sound, the sculptor uses stone and wood, the painter his pigments, and the writer - words.

when dancing is right, the movement possesss a logic common to us all, an inevitability that takes it beyond the personal and egocentric and makes of it classical art.

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

I'd get sent home from the first audition of So You Think You Can Dance. My dancing is sort of controlled spasms. I fully accept it might appear ridiculous. But it's passionate!

I love rhythmic dancing - I'm not derogating it at all. It's just that sometimes you want to whisper, "I adore you." And for that you need strings and woodwinds.

I was told that I was good in my dance movement classes and that I should concentrate on dance because it would enhance my ability to get acting work.

I was very happy that I was as normal as possible before I went into serious dance.

If I can not dance, I shall die!

Dancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal. The passion and the meaning to their movement can be another thing.

Hence it is from the representation of things spoken by means of posture and gesture that the whole of the art of dance has been elaborated.

Dancing is a part of my life where when I don't dance I feel like there's something missing because I'm such a physical person who loves to express myself through dance, but I love to act. I love to sing. I love to entertain so if I'm passionate about a certain project, I wanna do it.

I learned how to communicate and articulate myself from ballet. It's just insane to me, when they don't think of that as a part of our education.