Dance Comparison Quotes

My small experience on 'Dancing with the Stars' allowed me to slowly appreciate the Waltz and Viennese Waltz, but to see it in Vienna is something much different.

As a dancer, I out-Fred the nimblest Astaire.

Even Gene Kelly: I always preferred him to Fred Astaire, just because he was more athletic, like skateboarding. His leaps were big. There was something really great about his moves.

I was a Spanish dancer. I don't mean to put that down, because that was great, too, but nothing like the kind of dancing you had to do in 'West Side Story,' which was called jazz.

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.

Coming from dance, I feel acting is - I'm not going to say easy, because it's not. But the dance world is more hard-core.

There are a lot of similarities between dancing and wrestling. The costumes are the same, the spandex and all that, but you have to be light on your feet to do both, and you have to remember choreography.

I am the Fred Astaire of karate.

Man, I was tame compared to what they do now. Are you kidding? I didn't do anything but just jiggle.

The traditional tango is really staccato, but with the Argentine tango, you have to be really sexy and saucy.

Things danced on the screen do not look the way they do on the stage. On the stage, dancing is three-dimensional, but a motion picture is two-dimensional.

Dancing is a lot lower-impact than ultimate fighting, but it takes a lot longer, and I burn the same amount of calories.

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Dance is just like film in that it allows for thoughts in movement.

Astaire was ballroom, basically, and Gene Kelly had such athleticism - that's always what I responded to and what just blew my head open when I watched Gene Kelly's numbers. But, Fred Astaire was just so incredibly inventive and so, so smooth - so smooth.

Being a Kathak dancer, learning Bharathanatyam was a challenge as it was not that subtle, when compared to my natural form of dance.

People that marry can never part, but must go and keep house together. People that dance only stand opposite each other in a long room for half an hour.

I thought the Charleston would be a bit like the jive, but it isn't really.

You've got your Justins who have all the back flipping dancers and stuff, and then you've got Lemar, and he totally moves you without having to do all of that, and he's gorgeous.

Jimmy Slyde was more a musician than a dancer; Greg Hines was more musician than dancer.

Fred Astaire’s got nothing on me.

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

I've always had an innate ability to dance, but I'm not as spiffy as those cinema legends like Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire.

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.

And then you have the classical ballerinas, they're like sopranos. Applied to the dance.