Merce Cunningham Quotes

Ballet is good, because it makes you stand up tall.

I'm a pretty decent tap dancer. I enjoy all types of dancing, actually.

Dancing came easy to me.

No talent lies in my dancing.

I really have a new-found respect for dancers.

My body was so instrumental to how I took pictures: it was practically a dance. I used to use my legs a lot; now I'm a little more sedentary.

I'm a hell of a bloody good dancer.

I think of action as a dance. It's a riddle; it should have emotion in it.

I always liked dancing and you'd go to class and find you had an hour acting and an hour of ballet.

I tried everything from basketball to volleyball to soccer, but dancing was the only thing I never complained about.

Dancing is all about your core.

I realize that I'm not a great dancer. I've given up the hip-shaking. I don't pelvic thrust anymore. Those were the beginning days of T. R. learning how to dance. But I love it, and I've taken a few choreography lessons. But other than that, I kinda just feel it, I guess.

Dancing comes naturally to me.

I'm a dancer and comfortable with my body.

Exactly the same with dancing, you can't dance until you've learnt steps, the things your feet can do.

I feel I can handle the architecture of dance as well as anybody.

I dance. I don't really do anything else.

I love ballet because you can see how beautiful the body is.

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

Dancing is like riding a bike.

The physicality of any character is always split up into fast, slow, high energy, low energy, what kind of personality he has. So that's where the physicality comes in. And flying through the air is just something you have to do if they ask you.

Ballet teaches you how to hold yourself.

Fighting is dancing. Look at a great boxing match, and it's a dancing.

Dancing is kind of my thing.

I love the physicality of my job and how my mind and body are most happy when I'm expressing and moving. My face was always secondary to body alignment and the dynamism of making a moment come alive.