Jessica Barden Quotes

Paul Taylor's 'Offenbach Overtures' has lots of zip and charm, and its pair of dueling soldiers in red, who end up starry-eyed about each other while their disgusted seconds take up the quarrel, is nonstop funny.

Music is my life. I love doing it, so I just do it nonstop all day. And with dancing, I wanted to put on a show for people. I don't want to just be sitting there doing nothing, so that's when I started to dance.

I became a dancer in self-defense. I was doing a comedy monologue and didn't know how else to get off, so I danced off. I've been dancing ever since, but I'm still a comedian.

Audiences love Paul Taylor, and so do I. Not everything, and not always, but year in, year out, he gives me more concentrated pleasure than I get from any other dance company.

I totally remove myself from any costumes, wardrobe, any choreography. I could care less about that stuff.

To me, acting is like a party. It's like a fun thing to do. You don't have to worry. You don't have to agonize about anything.

I liked Michael Jackson and used to practice his steps. I enjoy dancing!

I actually enjoy Britney Spears. Not as a singer but as a performer. I just enjoy watching her. I think, 'You are so brave.'

As a kid, I loved leading 'dance camp' in my garage for the neighborhood kids. I would choreograph really intricate routines for us to perform. It was so much fun!

Point a light at me, and I'll start tap dancing.

I was always in plays at school and in school concerts - you could say I liked to show off.

I always loved to entertain and show off in front of the neighbors. I would sing and dance at their houses.

I like to express myself inside of the work that is given, and I let the dancers do the same.

I like to dance, I love music and sometimes in the changing room I am dancing.

Everybody laughed at me when I said I wanted to make a dance video, but when I said, 'What would it look like if Joe Strummer made a dance video?' everybody shut up.

Doing 'New Rules x Are You That Somebody?' was really, really fun.

What I loved most about 'Rhythm Nation' were the uniforms and the perfect group choreography.

When I was young, I couldn't think about ballet because I had to focus on my own field. But once you secure your own performance area, you can indulge yourself in different territories. Fashion is one. And ballet is absolutely a fantasy, because it deals with the bodies in a different way.

People get sucked into being so show-bizy. I mean this is show biz, but I just can't do anything that's not in my DNA.

I used to do a lot of dancing when I was younger.

I started doing drag because I needed a creative outlet for myself.

If anybody in the business can capture the spirit of 'Pony,' it would have to be Rihanna.

I decided one day to put on my tutu and jump on the coffee table and sing Aretha Franklin songs for the painters that were painting the house.

I've always liked musical theater, and getting to do stuff like that where I can just dance around and just be crazy is just super fun.

I just love music - I was always singing and dancing.