Tap Dancing Quotes

• There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them.

  Vicki Baum

  Happiness, Happy, Dance

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• Dancing is like dreaming with your feet!

  Constanze Mozart

  Dance, Dream, Ballet Class

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• When I first saw tap dancing, I immediately got it: the righteousness of being able to make so much noise with your feet!

  Shalom Harlow

  Feet, Dancing, Noise

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• I`m basically a hoofer, a tap dancer. I was always very good from the waist down, moving with the feet... I became what`s known as a total dancer, using the entire body in order to express what you want to express in tap dancing and line.

  Donald O'Connor

  Moving, Order, Feet

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• Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

  John Dryden

  Dance, Ballet Class, Feet

  John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.1562, Delphi Classics

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• Once you're on stage you can't go back, even when things go wrong people expect you to stay there and entertain them. When all else fails, you've got to try tap dancing.

  Angus Young

  People, Dancing, Trying

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• Tap dancing all started with the old clog waltz.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Dance, Dancing, Waltz

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• You’re just jealous of me because I’m a tap-dancing ballerina fairy princess veterinarian!

  Daniel Handler

  Princess, Jealous, Dancing

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• I'm still tap dancing. I'm still going.

  Terence Stamp

  Dancing, Stills

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• I think 'Tap Dogs' has lasted so long because people have a natural interest in tap dancing. This form of dancing can't be dated, it's such an intriguing form of dance because the feet are also an an instrument.

  Adam Garcia

  Dog, Thinking, Feet

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• I've been dancing my entire life. Jazz, hip hop, ballet. And then there's tap dancing. I love to tap.

  Emily VanCamp

  Dancing, Hip Hop, Ballet

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• Black people playing tennis, next white people will be tap dancing!

  Will Smith

  White, People, Dancing

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• I was okay with singing. I always sneak a song into everything I do. Dancing, a little awkward. Little embarrassed about that. I don't move well. But I was with a frog, so it doesn't matter. I'll do anything with a frog, that's my motto. He's great with tap-dancing or flap-dancing on my head. So no one's going to be looking at me when we're doing that dance. They're going to be saying, 'There's a frog dancing'.

  Ricky Gervais

  Song, Moving, Dancing

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. 2014.

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• When people say you're doing something radical in rock or dance music, I'm not sure how special that is. What we do is so old-fashioned. It's like trying to do something innovative in tap-dancing.

  Jonny Greenwood

  Rocks, Dancing, People

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• My brother became so enamored with that film [West Side Story], that he started taking tap-dancing lessons, and I followed him and started tap dancing, and my mother and father started tap dancing - I was in a class with my family, tap dancing!

  Marisa Tomei

  Mother, Brother, Father

  Source: www.scene-stealers.com

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• Sometimes I feel like tap-dancing, screeching, unscrewing light bulbs, pulling curtains, combing hair, doing knee bends, handstands and turning somersaults out there.

  Ilie Nastase

  Light, Hair, Dancing

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• I went out into the world when I was about 22. I wrote books and I illustrated books and did book covers, and I taught tap-dancing, and I was a model in the art school. I had no ability for any of those things, but what else could I do?

  Quentin Crisp

  Art, Book, School

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Like my friend Warren Buffett, I feel particularly lucky to do something every day that I love to do. He calls it "tap dancing to work."

  Bill Gates

  Work, Dancing, Lucky

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• 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.

  Miles Teller

  College, Dancing, Ballet

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Celebrity is a pretty stunning thing. At first I was like 'They love me! Oh, I love them, too.' And suddenly, I was tap-dancing on my pedestal and it was whack! Facedown in the dirt.

  Sharon Stone

  Dancing, Pedestal, Complaining

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

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• I can remember when I first got to los Angeles . I didn't have a car, I didn't have any money. I was walking the streets, you know, trying to get from place to place on foot almost. Sometimes, you know, you say, how am I ever going to get from here to there? There are a lot of people still having that dream and not being able to get there. So you never know. The idea is to keep on tap dancing, though.

  Morgan Freeman

  Dream, Ideas, Feet

  "Morgan Freeman on playing God, 'Shawshank' and receiving AFI's Life Achievement Award". Interview with Jen Chaney, www.washingtonpost.com. June 10, 2011.

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• Well, let’s start with the maxim that the best writing is understated, meaning it’s not full of flourishes and semaphores and tap dancing and vocabulary dumps that get in the way of the story you are telling. Once you accept that, what are you left with? You are left with the story you are telling.
  The story you are telling is only as good as the information in it: things you elicit, or things you observe, that make a narrative come alive; things that support your point not just through assertion, but through example; quotes that don’t just convey information, but also personality.

  Gene Weingarten

  Writing, Vocabulary, Dancing

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• Talent? That's not talent. Talent is Liza Minnelli tap dancing and singing at the same time. What I just saw was devastation. Dying man on the cross. Salvation in B minor.

  Tiffanie DeBartolo

  Men, Dancing, Singing

  Tiffanie DeBartolo (2005). “How to Kill a Rock Star”, p.87, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• What would he imagine next? Little hairy beasties tap-dancing on his sofa, or other fey creatures sneaking up on him in the shower?’ (Syn)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Dancing, Littles, Next

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Born of Fire”, p.23, Macmillan

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• I was the youngest of my entire family so you are tap-dancing to try to get the attention of your older cousins. I really hit my social stride in 6th grade, but before that I was a pretty big dork. You learn how to be amusing and how to work for it.

  Sloane Crosley

  Cousin, Dancing, Trying

  "Book Talk: Sloane Crosley hits brothels, clowns in new essays". Interview with Belinda Goldsmith, uk.reuters.com. June 23, 2010.

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