Savion Glover Quotes

I'm a tap dancer. Once you're a tap dancer, you're always a tap dancer. In 'After Midnight,' I get to dance, but I don't do a full tap number.

If you like being battered, the work of Savion Glover - one-time child prodigy - should be up your alley. I don't, and it isn't up mine.

My dream role would be anything where I get to tap-dance.

I can sing as well as Fred Astaire can act.

Tap dancing is something I love, and I've been working on it to get really good.

I've tapdanced since I was 11 years old. I always wanted to be a tapdancer, and that's all I ever wanted to be.

Astaire never thought of what he was doing as balletic, but Kelly was always trying to dance with women on points. And his choreography is so showy and flashy. He always looks self-satisfied to me.

I've always, especially through old Hollywood musicals, loved just to watch tap dancing; I adore it. I think it's fantastic.

I did a lot of dancing when I was young.

Musicals spring forth from minstrelsy, vaudeville, melodramas; it was all these things combined to create the form.

There's a whole new generation who know about tap dancing thanks to 'Happy Feet.'

I was always looking at footage of dancers from Nicholas Brothers to Ralph Brown to Sand Man to Miller Brothers and Lois, and I grew up looking at old footage.

The Nicholas Brothers were the best tap-dancers. I'm not talking about their flash-dancing, I'm talking about tap-dancing. They were really saying something with their feet.

I am a singer and dancer, and I've been perfecting it for a lot of years.

Did any artist ever bring more pure joy to more people than Fred Astaire?

I was in a competing company and have been dancing since I was four - ballet, tap, jazz, hip hop - so it's a huge part of my life and my music.

I'd love to do a film like 'Chicago.' Something musical because I've obviously come from that background.

I studied dancing for 13 years. And loved to dance. Always wanted to dance with Fred Astaire.

I worked as a singing, dancing busgirl in high school.

The fun thing about 'Chicago' is that there's so much dance and, very specifically, Roxie. So you might see a little bit of Roxie on the Sugarland stage. Who knows.

I majored in dance in college.

I love music; I love dancing. I took, like, eight years of ballet when I was a kid, and I still love dancing. There's been a couple of films where I was able to do some dance numbers, like 'Romy and Michelle' and 'Summer of Sam,' and I'm so happy when I get to do that.

I was very aware of the fact we were so out of fashion when I shot 'Chicago.' And I was trepidatious as to whether it would be seen or embraced by anybody, but I've never stopped believing in the genre. There's nothing like it. It's American-born.

Some actors have an affinity for dance, and they should explore it, train in it, and get good.

I would love to do a musical. Something old-fashioned, probably.