A. J. Pritchard Quotes

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

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

Modern dancing is old fashioned.

Of course I danced a lot when I was making 'Swingers.' The swing music scene was big in Hollywood, and I went to places like The Derby. And, after I wrote it and was trying to get it made, I would go every week so I'd be good at dancing.

My father danced a lot. He was called 'the French Fred Astaire.'

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.

In black culture, you know, we used to go swing dancing. We used to go out to go dance and actually have fun.

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

The only thing is that ordinarily when I do dance with [women] they think I am suddenly going to throw them over a table or twist them all around. All I want to do is one-two, one-two-three - a simple fox trot. But they're shaking with anticipation at the thought that I'm about to whip them around and then toss them on the roof.

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.

My favorite way to dance is being swept off my feet by somebody who doesn't know how to dance.

I was exceedingly delighted with the waltz, and also with the polka. These differ in name, but there the difference ceases

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

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 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.

Swing dance has been a part of my life since I was born.

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!

One of my favorite stories was Black Orchid, because it was so different from all the others. I especially enjoyed dancing the Charleston. I have always been keen on dancing.

I'm the first one out on the dance floor. In college I had to take jazz, ballet and tap dancing, but, before that, it was just social.

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

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

Swing is my favorite kind of music.