Nigel Lythgoe Quotes

Dancing is one of the best ways of expressing yourself, and I definitely use it to release emotion.

Dance, to me, is an expression of who we are.

Know that there is so much more to you than your body. It's not just about perfecting the steps; you must trust your instincts to tell deep, emotional stories through the steps that you are performing.

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

I like to tell stories through dancing and singing.

The body cannot lie. You cannot be somebody else onstage, no matter how good of an actor or dancer or singer you are. When you open your arms, move your finger, the audience knows who you are, you know.

Art is about the 'I' in life not the 'we', about private life rather than public. A public life that doesn't acknowledge the private is a life not worth having.

It seems extraordinary to have waited so long into one's life to have found the part that actually uses your basic rhythm. And I think that's always sort of what actors connect up with - their own sort of world.

In order for me to write, I have to experience life. I write the songs based on real life, and I perform them from a very real place.

I think that even though some of the things on 'Humans of New York' are kind of very personal and very revealing, I think the discomfort with sharing that tends to be overwritten by the appreciation of being able to distill the experience of your life into a story and share it with other people.

Whether I moved people to throw punches or cry, I did that through my art and what I do. I would never take that experience away to race against a speedometer. Or play on a team.

You know one of the things about going from modeling to acting is it's so much more fulfilling. With modeling, you get your picture taken, which is great, good for you, you know? But in acting, you're able to reach in and show a little bit more of yourself.

That's something that I think the best artists retain - the ability to invite you into their small, intimate inner space, and let that be what radiates.

I'm not a signing or dancing man.

Dancing is more than just moving body parts; it is a pathway of expressing your deepest inner thoughts.

I grew up dancing and singing, and I pool together my life experience and relationships and put it into work.

Sexuality is an expression of our spirituality. Sex makes you get real.

I love acting. It is so much more real than life.

I don't think I would ever write a book with what anybody could call pornography in it, because I feel that pornography is a cheat. It is an attempt to provide sexual experience by secondhand means. Now sex is a thing which has to be experienced firsthand, if you are really going to understand it, and pornography is rather like trying to find out about a Beethoven symphony by having somebody tell you about it and perhaps hum a few bars. It's not the same thing. Sex is primarily a question of relationships. Pornography is a do-it-yourself kit--a twenty-second best.

I've always made music that was representative of real life.

My mother was a dancer, so I like to use the body as part of the instrument of acting.

Dancing and acting satisfy me in different ways.

It was the moment I learned acting is not acting out. After that light went on, I spent the rest of my life trying to figure out how to make other people realize it.

Sexuality and sensuality are completely different things. Sensuality is something that you're born with. But sexuality is something I leave for my own mirror.

I've always believed that the facts about dancing are more interesting than the myths, and this was a great chance for me to explore how the human body does such incredible things.