Judith Jamison Quotes

I try to convey the musical notes through dance, take on the music.

Dance is the most fundamental of all art forms.

I am dancing all the time. Every gesture, the body line of every pose, the way I get from place to place, the movement in the acting - none of it would be the way it is if I weren't a dancer.

Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.

Dance is in my background.

I dance as best I can. I try to let the music flow freely through my legs.

I was a dancer before I was an actress, so I've always been someone who likes to communicate from my body and movement.

I had danced when I was younger, until I was about 12, and I always idealized it, as most young girls do, as the most beautiful art. It's an expression without words.

In song and dance, man forgets how to walk and speak and is on the way into flying into the air, dancing... his very gestures express enchantment.

I tap dance.

I'm a dancer, so I love to dance.

Dance has always just been an extension of music for me. It's about putting my music into motion. It's just another dimension that I tap into with my music that not many artists do anymore.

I've always liked to dance - I've got a natural rhythm.

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.

In dance you use every party of your body except your voice. I wanted to start acting because I wanted to use my voice.

I'm a singer who moves like a dancer.

Dance is one of the most revealing art forms.

Dance has been a big passion for me.

Adam Shankman has got such love and passion for dance.

Playwrights have texts, composers have scores, painters and sculptors have the residue of those activities, and dance is traditionally an ephemeral, effervescent, here-today-gone-tomorrow kind of thing.

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.'

Each dancer has a different dialect that they speak.

Growing up as a dancer, the stage is really where I love to be performance wise.

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.

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