Ray Bolger Quotes

My movement is usually about finding the balance between artistry, athleticism, and musicality. It always originates with a classical basis and expands outwards from that platform.

I just play the little guy, except I play him through dance.

When eventually I started to act a bit more, I realised that circus school had taught me something that a lot of actors my age didn't have: physicality. They didn't know how to move. Acting is not all about talking. There is something animalistic about it.

Do I watch dancers as people? Yes, absolutely. Do I watch really good dancers for specifically who they are? Absolutely, because how they move best and how they look best is going to be most familiar to them, and not necessarily to me.

I never studied dance, but if you look at 'Wild At Heart,' my mother saw that movie and said, 'You are a dancer. Look at how you're moving: all that strange energy is like modern dance.'

It's one of my strongest dance pieces - having just done Play Without Words which was veering away from a lot of dance - I thought it would be nice to go back to something with almost the most dance I'd done.

Action choreographer is like talking. When you talk, you have a rhythm. When you act, you have a rhythm. When you're moving your body, you have a rhythm. So as an actor, as a choreographer, the objective is trying to blend everything in - into - ultimately back into that character.

Sometimes I say I feel more like a dancer than an actor, because there are things implied about being an actor that I don't really like. I feel more comfortable with the word 'performer'. I like being the thing. I like being the doer. There's a factualness to it. And then certain resonances happen out of how you apply yourself physically.

When it comes to acting, you really have to create movement which in some ways is dancing. And dancing, I feel is very important to act as well. I wouldn't put one over the other.

I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.

Dancers are a work of art - they are the canvas on which their work is painted.

All theater is dance.

As ballerinas, we don't use our voices. Our voice is the body and the movement quality.

I was a dancer and performer.

I think I'm a dancer in terms of what I do onstage.

I feel like dance, by its nature, goes so easily to grand and beautiful.

Dance has always been my number one. I started when I was seven years old and I've had the opportunity to work with some really amazing artists.

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.

I love working with Alicia Keys, because it's not just the ability to do the dance to me; I think it's the ability to interpret it that excites me the most.

I very much like dance and dancers.

Dance is one of the most revealing art forms.

Dance has been a big passion for me.

Dance is the most fundamental of all art forms.

I was a dancer first, which made me realize how much I loved performing.

When I was a dancer, I was acting.