Gene Kelly Quotes

I did ballroom dancing at school, but I was atrocious.

Ballroom dancing is like being on Mars compared to what I've done throughout my life.

When you're out dancing with your friends, you think you're cool. But then you get in the ballroom, and it's totally different.

People ask me who I'd like to dance with. I think that Lucy Fallon - she's seems... She's a good height. I saw her at a party once and I thought, blonde, yep - perfect. Lifts, we could work it.

There are dances you can do separately - your charleston, your jive.

The cha-cha, right from the start... I knew it wasn't my kinda thing.

Hey buddy, don't you be no square, if you can't find a partner use a wooden chair.

Dance, v.i. To leap about to the sound of tittering music, preferably with arms about your neighbor's wife or daughter. There are many kinds of dances, but all those requiring the participation of the two sexes have two characteristics in common: they are conspicuously innocent, and warmly loved by the vicious.

Dancing. Come on. You can do it. It's a lot like navigating through a laser grid. It requires rhythm.' He moved her hips to the beat of the distant music. 'And patience.' He spun her around slowly and back toward him. 'And it's only fun if you trust your partner.' The dip was so slow, so smooth that Kat didn't know it was happening until the world was already turned upside down and Hale's face was inches from her own. Count me in, Kat.' He squeezed her tighter. 'You should always count me in.

Learn at least two classic ballroom dances, at least one of them Latin.

I may be able to concentrate on a move, but it may not look exactly how I need it to look like, as far as in the ballroom world. Hip-hop is different; it is a lot more flowy with ballroom.

When it came to the stylish and graceful art of ballroom dancing, my dad was a king of the clubs, a prowling tiger and a wonderfully natural mover.

When I first started out, I was really attracted to having my own sense of style because I started swing dancing, lindy hop, and jitterbug.

I'm a terrible dancer! Oh, I'm an awful dancer!

I would love to learn how to dance. I can pick up choreography pretty well. But when you're dancing with your friends, I can't do that. I'm not a freestyler. It just doesn't come naturally to me. Clapping is my go-to dance.

I've just become obsessed with ballroom dancing. I signed up for the introductory course, which was like a four-week thing. By the end of it, I was hooked. I love it. It's sort of flirty, but it's not sexual. I can't quit until I've got it down and I can really dance. I'm there four or five times a week.

'Rent-a-tile' means when you go to a dance hall, some people take the middle of the dance floor and do their thing.

Modern dancing is old fashioned.

I'm happy to dance with anyone, to be honest. I've had some great partners, who have all been talented. But not all of them at dancing.

Fred Astaire was a more formal, trained dancer who loved waltzing and only danced with the girls.

I would love to do a little ballroom dancing with my husband... He and I can take a couple classes together. It would be a lot of fun!

I don't date dancers, but I've always wanted to teach guys how to dance.

I wish I could dance like Michael Jackson. I'd love to be able to have my life exactly the way it is, but with his dance moves.

My old dance teacher, Jimmy Wilde, a former European ballroom dancing champion, was so sophisticated.

I love tango, and I used to dance when I was young.