Bob Fosse Quotes

• Human beings are born with the instinct to express themselves through movement. Even before he could communicate with words, primitive man was dancing to the beat of his own heart.

  Bob Fosse

  Dance, Heart, Men

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• Don't dance for the audience; dance for yourself.

  Bob Fosse

  Dance, Audience

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The energy doesn't end at the hands. I want such intensity that it feels like light is streaming from every finger.

  Bob Fosse

  Dance, Light, Hands

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• The time to sing is when your emotional level is just too high to speak anymore, and the time to dance is when your emotions are just too strong to only sing about how you feel.

  Bob Fosse

  Strong, Emotional, Levels

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• Dance expresses joy better than anything else.

  Bob Fosse

  Dancing, Joy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I am not an educated person. I didn't come up through a ballet company. I came up through burlesque. So I have a lot of inferiority feelings concerning my own lack of education, my entry into show business. I'm not a Baryshnikov. I'm not a Nureyev. I came up in vaudeville. Strippers. So I've always had these feelings. But I think they've also helped me.

  Bob Fosse

  Thinking, Feelings, Ballet

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• Choreography is writing on your feet.

  Bob Fosse

  Writing, Feet, Choreography

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• Life is just a bowl of cherries, don't take it serious, its mysterious. Life is just a bowl of cherries, so live and laugh and laugh at love, love a laugh, laugh and love.

  Bob Fosse

  Love, Funny Life, Laughing

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• They may not know what I'm doing, but they know I'm doing something!

  Bob Fosse

  Dancing, May, Knows

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• In today's world, everything seems like some sort of long audition.

  Bob Fosse

  Long, World, Today

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I thank God that I wasn't born perfect.

  Bob Fosse

  Perfect, Thank God, Born

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I like attractive people who aren't so terribly aware that they are attractive... people who aren't afraid to roll on the floor and make fools out of themselves.

  Bob Fosse

  People, Fool, Attractive

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think Balanchine and Robbins talk to God and when I call, he's out to lunch.

  Bob Fosse

  Dance, Thinking, Lunch

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• You spend your whole life trying to get known and then you spend the rest of it hiding in the toilet.

  Bob Fosse

  Trying, Toilets, Hiding

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• She not only kept her lovely figure, she's added so much to it.

  Bob Fosse

  Sarcastic, Lovely, Figures

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• Directors are never in short supply of girlfriends.

  Bob Fosse

  Girlfriend, Directors

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• Mary Martin was Broadway's biggest closet king. Everyone thought Ethel (Merman) was butch and maybe a lesbian, but she wasn't. And everyone thought that lovely little Mary was Miss Femme, and she was -- except next to her gay husband. In other words, don't judge a star by her cover.

  Bob Fosse

  Kings, Stars, Husband

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