Robert Duvall Quotes

I find the songs and dances in Hindi films fascinating, and I know I will do justice to them, as I am a trained dancer.

I've been doing African dance all my life.

Tus Ojitos' is an incredible and romantic Peruvian waltz; I tried to make it appear that the heart is singing.

I've changed my whole angle for dance. I'm moving towards moving back rather than hanging out with my peers. I'm reaching back to older dudes for a second.

The beginning and the end of the tango is the walk.

The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a celebration.

The flamenco of the Gypsy has nothing to do with the flamenco for tourists. Real flamenco is like sex.

I got kicked out of Riverdance for using my arms.

I'm convinced no one actually likes clubs. It's a conspiracy. We've been told they're cool and fun; that only "saddoes" dislike them. And no one in our pathetic little pre-apocalyptic timebubble wants to be labelled "sad" - it's like being officially declared worthless by the state. So we muster a grin and go out on the town in our millions.

You didn't hear Yello until later in the night in the bondage clubs. Things would start getting crazy and that's when you'd hear Yello. It was bad.

Poetry is the universal possession of mankind, revealing itself everywhere, and at all times, in hundreds and hundreds of men.

Show me how you dance and I will know where you are from.

When you represent a club it's about values and qualities, not about passports.

I'm Irish, for gods sake. I'm a romantic.

I believe dance is a manifestation and celebration of the tenacity of the human spirit.

My pawing over the ancients and semi-ancients has been one struggle to find out what has been done, once and for all, better than it can ever be done again, and to find out what remains for us to do, and plenty does remain, for if we still feel the same emotions as those who launched a thousand ships, it is quite certain that we came on these feelings differently, through different nuances, by different intellectual gradations. Each age has its own abounding gifts yet only some ages transmute them into matters of duration.

I'd get sent home from the first audition of So You Think You Can Dance. My dancing is sort of controlled spasms. I fully accept it might appear ridiculous. But it's passionate!

I go to dance clubs...about once a year just to justify the other 364 days I spend in my apartment going 'God, what idiots!'

Private, accidental, confidential conversation breeds thought. Clubs produce oftener words.

Folk songs are evasive-the truth about life, and life is more or less a lie, but then again that's exactly the way we want it to be. We wouldn't be comfortable with it any other way. A folk song has over a thousand faces and you must meet them all if you want to play this stuff. A folk song might vary in meaning and it might not appear the same from one moment to the next. It depends on who's playing and who's listening.

I approached work very seriously. I never went out. I couldn't fathom people who could go out to clubs... But I definitely went through a time where I was just terrified and exhausted and I didn't really understand. Hollywood... It just got to be too much for me.

Daddy, What's the horizontal tango?

I thought of inviting you to my other club but you know how it is. Lunching there is a useful way of reminding people that you're still alive, but the members will come up and congratulate you on the fact.

I'm an Italian girl from the south who's very passionate.