Can't Dance Quotes

#1. I'm the guy that stands out in all the crowds, so I don't get out there and dance, but I can dance.

Tracy McGrady

#2. As dancers, especially for myself, personally, dance constitutes a lot of the conversation that I have. While I'm not a ridiculous wordsmith and I can't clearly verbalize the things that I'm feeling sometimes, I'd say that I can emote how I feel by dancing, 100% of the time, and fearlessly at that.

Stephen Boss

#3. I always wanted praise, and I always wanted attention; I won't lie to you. I was a jazz critic, and that wasn't good enough for me. I wanted people to write about me, not me about them. So I thought, 'What could I do? I can't sing, I can't dance, I can't act or anything like that. OK, I can write.'

Harvey Pekar

#4. I think a lot of people don't realize that martial arts are just an expression like anything else. It's just that most people are not trained to punch or kick, but you can walk or run or dance, which is also part of expression.

Donnie Yen

#5. I've just always liked watching people dance. I can't explain it. It used to just make me laugh.

Harmony Korine

#6. There are female artists I can look at that I find more in common with than the male artists, because they're blending the pop, dance and theatricality ... but currently there aren't a lot of guys who go there.

Adam Lambert

#7. So you can't dance? Not at all? Not even one step? How can you say that you've taken any trouble to live when you won't even dance?

Hermann Hesse

#8. It's hard to move on if you don't forgive," he said. "It's like trying to dance with a lead weight on your shoulders. The anger can weigh you down forever.

Diane Chamberlain

#9. I kept writing all these ballads; they're me speaking about life. But how am I gonna do the live show I wanna do if I don't have something I can dance to?

Laura Bell Bundy

#10. Usually kids who are talented have the brashness to think they can do anything, but they don't often get the chance to see how close they can come.

Twyla Tharp

#11. Zombies don't run. They don't dance. They don't say, "More brains." There is no Thriller Night. Those are stereotypes that are perpetrated by Hollywood, which I think is very irresponsible because it can get you killed.

Max Brooks

#12. With my heart thumping, I froze up. I didn't dance. I was born with two left feet and they only worked together in the saddle. "Come on," Casey urged and grabbed my hand. "I wore my steel-toe boots. You can stand on my feet for all I care.

Brittney Joy

#13. If you can't dance on it, it isn't coffee.

Nora Roberts

#14. 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

#15. Communication is not only about words and numbers. Some thoughts can't be properly expressed in these ways at all. We also think in sounds and images, in movement and gesture, which gives rise to our capacities for music, visual arts, dance, and theater in all their variations.

Ken Robinson

#16. I don't think you can really trust a man who likes to dance.

Brian Billick

#17. Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?

Carol S. Dweck

#18. I think inspiration is strongest when I find a balance between observation and participation. You can't write about what it means to dance by watching from the bleachers.

Chelsey Philpot

#19. If an alien race lands on the planet Earth tomorrow and asks me to prove I'm really here, what do I do? What do I give them? What do I tell them? What do I show them? I can't sing or dance. I can't paint. I've never built anything, and I've never contributed anything significant to the human race.

Macaulay Culkin

#20. I love songs, and I love songwriting, and there's a standard of songwriting within Chicago blues in particular. I don't like the sad blues, necessarily; the Chicago blues is what I like, which is the kind of blues you can dance to.

Sinead O'Connor

#21. Honestly, I am so ignorant of how dance works that I can't even imagine a story that you would want to tell through movement.

Ira Glass

#22. I would rather be having a burger and beers with my mates but I can't do that when I know I've got to dance.

Michael Flatley

#23. If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.

George Bernard Shaw

#24. I dance for no reason, for reasons you can't dance,
Call me an activist of intellectualized circumstance
You can't learn my steps until you unlearn your thoughts Spirit, soul, can't be store-bought.

Saul Williams

#25. It's rare to see a man step up and say "I can be a great father and learn about gymnastics with my daughter and take her to dance lessons because I love her." I can make time to blow bubbles on the back porch. It doesn't cause your man card to be revoked.

Dan Alatorre

#26. Generation after generation can't just be loaded with more and more nuclear weapons and not ultimately dance to that music.

Marianne Williamson

#27. Dance, my darling dance! If you dance then death can't catch you! Nothing bad can touch you! Dance!

Jackie French

#28. Want to dance?" He scooped me into his arms before I could reply. "We have music this time. And I don't have to punch you when we finish."
"You don't have to. But if I step on your feet too many times you can feel free.

Amy Tintera

#29. I can't claim to 'understand' 'Byzantium,' if any dance work can be 'understood,' but whenever I see it, I sense that it's charged with meaning.

Robert Gottlieb

#30. I'm basically a pretty shy person and I don't dance or get into fights. But there are all these things inside me that get out when I perform. It's like a real world when I play, here I can do all the things that I can't do in real life.

Bill Frisell

#31. I don't really have a talent. I can't sing or act or dance or perform, those talents. All I can do is be myself.

Lauren Conrad

#32. I can't belly dance.'
Yes, you can. It's in your fi
'
Will you stop reading my goddamn file!

Jennifer Rardin

#33. You can't dance with me in the day and sleep in his arms at night. You can't have the sun and moon at the same time. Unless there's an eclipse.

Neha Yazmin

#34. You are my first best friend, my first crush, my first kiss, my first dance partner, and my first love. Please don't be my first heartbreak. I want you to be my first everything, Josh. Please, don't let it be too late. Please, let me love you because I don't think I can stop even if you tell me too.

Andrea Michelle

#35. I just can't dance like no ones watching. I tried but it's futile.

Gary Gulman

#36. Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that's all. You can't see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. But when those senses weaken another heightens. Memory. Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it. You dance with it.

Mitch Albom

#37. If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution.

Emma Goldman

#38. All music is dance music. But when people think of dance music, they think of techno or just house. Anything you can dance to is dance music. I don't care if it's classical, funk, salsa, reggae, calypso; it's all dance music.

Afrika Bambaataa

#39. In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell ... we can't dance synonyms.

George Balanchine

#40. If I can't dance to it, it's not my revolution.

Emma Goldman

#41. You can bring truth to anything, whether it's a dance movie or an incredibly poignant indie drama or a really broad comedy. As long as you show up to play, I don't think you can go wrong.

Josh Peck

#42. Jumping from boulder to boulder and never falling, with a heavy pack, is easier than it sounds; you just can't fall when you get into the rhythm of the dance.

Jack Kerouac

#43. When you make a mistake. You can do a little song and dance, put on a little show and have everyone laugh it off.
Or you can own it, and next time show everyone how great you are. While silencing your critiques.

Personally speaking... I don't help no one make a fool out of you.

Vincent Edwards

#44. Just because you've been on stage doesn't mean you can dance.

Rachel Stevens

#45. I refuse to dance. And I can't dance anyway. I'm not in a band for that.

Liam Gallagher

#46. Visualization - it's been huge for me. Your mind doesn't know the difference between imagination and reality. You can't always practice perfectly - my fingers will play a little bit out of tune, or my dance moves might not be as sharp - but in my mind, I can practice perfectly.

Lindsey Stirling

#47. You can be a rapper born and raised in go-go music, violence, drugs, crack, Reagonomics, and still, if you hear 'Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go,' you're going to find a way to hum along. Guilty pleasures? It don't matter. Sue me - I like the song. To dance to it is another matter.

Wale

#48. You should do something that will make your heart dance once a day. If you can't do that because you're too depressed, then do something that will make somebody else's heart dance.

Yoko Ono

#49. Money talks, but it don't sing and dance, and it don't walk. And long as I can have you here with me, I'd much rather be, forever in blue jeans.

Neil Diamond

#50. See, I don't like places where people can't dance - don't like clubs or theatres where a bunch of bourgeois people sit around tip, tip, tipping their fingers.

Etta James

#51. In a way, 'Billy Elliot' was autobiographical. I can't dance, but I think his dancing was me discovering about writing and literature.

Lee Hall

#52. Never, ever, let anyone tell you what you can and can't do. Prove the cynics wrong. Pity them for they have no imagination. The sky's the limit. Your sky. Your limit. Now. Let's dance.

Tom Hiddleston

#53. Even if you can't dance, you can shake your body. Even if you can't sing, you can make some noise.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#54. Generally speaking, you like to dance with the girl that brung you, and if you can't sometimes you have to shoot her.

David Bonderman

#55. The trick with hip-hop-hip-hop is a sport. The only music that's really, really close to a sport. It starts off, "My DJ's better than yours. I can out-rap you, I can out-dance you, my graffiti piece is better than you." It's very competitive.

Ice-T

#56. Helen stood up., "Accept that the universe is an apparently random dance. There may be a pattern to it-I think there probably is-but we can't see it from where we are.You have to let the dance happen. You'll love some of it and hate some it.

Amanda Cockrell

#57. I never wanted to be an actor, and to this day I don't. I can't get a handle on it. An actor wants to become someone else. I am a song-and-dance man, and I enjoy being myself, which is all I can do.

Dick Van Dyke

#58. We all know that life has ups and downs; you've experienced both. And though you can't always control what happens outside you, you can choose how you will respond. You can treat life as a dance rather than a wrestling match. You can become an active participant rather than a victim of circumstance.

Dan Millman

#59. There's an upside to the digital thing from my point of view because I find that I have access to all this wacky, weird-ass dance-music stuff that I just can't go into a shop and buy on vinyl.

Thom Yorke

#60. Painting doesn't have a function, not in the way that music or film does ... I mean, you can dance to music. Music can be used for a soundtrack, so it has a function in that sense, beyond itself. But painting doesn't ... But I do believe that painting has a purpose.

Peter Doig

#61. You can see it on the Internet: There's an argument going on continually about, 'What is folk music?' And I don't really want to get involved in that. It's an endless argument, a 'How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?' kind of argument.

Roger McGuinn

#62. Can't act. Can't sing. Slightly bald. Can dance a little.

Fred Astaire

#63. Gilbert darling, don't let's ever be afraid of things. It's such dreadful slavery. Let's be daring and adventurous and expectant. Let's dance to meet life and all it can bring to us, even if it brings scads of trouble and typhoid and twins! (Anne to Gilbert)

L.M. Montgomery

#64. Cassidy brings something beautiful to me from the outside. Aimee brings something beautiful up from the depths of my insides.
"I can't dance like Cassidy," she says.
"Yeah, but you dance like Aimee. And that's perfect.

Tim Tharp

#65. If you can't do what you want, do what you can.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#66. I can't dance, remember?" I whispered.
"It's just a tango. It is like sex, except with clothes on." Then, squeezing me closer: "Oh, I'm sorry. I forgot, you do not know how to do that either.

Joe Schreiber

#67. To get a big hit single you've got to go a bit dance. You've got to go a bit Britney. I don't think I can do that - well, I could but it wouldn't look very seemly!.

Paul McCartney

#68. While silently brooding, I am drawn to the start of a sweet melody that travels to my ear from afar. I smile, reminded that my heart can dance when my feet can't.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#69. I have absolutely no dance background at all. Nor a singing background. People, for some reason, think I can. And I don't know why that is. I sort intoned in Moulin Rouge, through facial hair and buck-teeth, but I don't really call it singing.

Richard Roxburgh

#70. Quite deliberately my friend drops a kettle on the floor. I tap-dance in front of closed doors. One by one the household emerges, looking as though they'd like to kill us both; but it's Christmas, so they can't.

Truman Capote

#71. I just think something about being in front of a live audience when you've finished a big dance that you've been working on for so long - I don't think anything can really beat that.

Maisie Williams

#72. Like most fans of 'So You Think You Can Dance,' I wouldn't know a pasodoble if it beat me with a rake.

Rob Sheffield

#73. I wasn't like a Hollywood child actor - 'I'm five! I can sing, I can dance, I can act! I wanna be a star!'

Alexander Skarsgard

#74. Well, I can't (sing or dance). Actually, I sing like a seal and dance like your Uncle Leo at that wedding where he got up and went 'ya, ya, ya'.

Richard Dreyfuss

#75. I can't dance on ice, because I'm like Bambi on ice.

Martine McCutcheon

#76. The ocean is a beast. A beast that doesn't care if it chews you up or swallows you whole. A beast you cannot beat - you can only dance with it until the time comes when it kills you. It will never lose,

Alessandra Torre

#77. She can't sing worth a damn, and her dance moves in the seat are questionable.

Kristen Proby

#78. I've never walked off stage and said, I shouldn't have done that. Because when you do what I do, you're like a fighter. You throw the right hand and say, That's what got me to this dance. You can't have doubt. If you have doubt, there's no show.

Don Rickles

#79. A bad marriage is like an electrical thrilling machine: it makes you dance, but you can't let go.

Ambrose Bierce

#80. I don't get grumpy at a 'Strictly' level, you understand. We're just making a television show - the person I'm dancing with can't dance; they're doing their best, and we're not going to win the World Championships.

Anton Du Beke

#81. Going through a rough break-up? Nothing a little dance party with friends can't ease.

Selena Gomez

#82. Dancing's not work. You can't call it work. A day I don't dance is a day I don't live.

Wendy Buonaventura

#83. If I can't dance then I'd rather be dead.

Anna Pavlova

#84. If a chick can't dance, she can't ride dick, simple as that ...

J.M. August

#85. Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.

Martha Graham

#86. So," says Lev, as casually as he can, "you wanna dance?" "Do you believe in the end of the world?" she responds. Lev shrugs. "I don't know. Why?" "Because the day after that is when I'll dance with you.

Neal Shusterman

#87. I don't tap dance, and I don't think you can learn to tap dance in three weeks at my ripe old age.

Huey Lewis

#88. I can't dance to save my life.

Adele

#89. Vanz can't dance, but he'll steal your money.

John Fogerty

#90. If I can't sing, then let me listen to the songs of the wilderness and let me watch the dance of a lonely leaf.

Debasish Mridha

#91. When I dance I feel as if I'm flying. When I hit the ground I can't breathe.
You have to leap as far as you can away from pain
Before it can hurt you

Dancer

#92. You see all races in music, and in dance and theatre, so why can't we see it in fashion?

Naomi Campbell

#93. I'm not someone who can dance to a song I don't like.

Win Butler

#94. If I can't dance, I don't care if my dances are ever done again!

Martha Graham

#95. Don't get down on yourself that you can't run a 4K or dance all night long at a fun club. Give yourself a break.

Kathleen Hanna

#96. I can't help but think of the dance that I'm not going to.
It's not that I want to go to a dance. I'd go milk cows with Jocelyn if I could. Or do whatever kids around here do for fun.

Travis Thrasher

#97. Our political process appears to be a toxic dance of mutually assured destruction that takes all the citizens down with you, and that can't be right. So I've prepared a little experiment.

Tim Dorsey

#98. You can't reduce lactic acid, but you can increase your tolerance to it. I do this through running or cycling, but it's a good idea to match your training bout to the type of dance you do.

Deborah Bull

#99. I can't make up my mind whether I want to dance like Josef Brown or dance with Josef Brown.

Ian McKellen

#100. I can secretly dance, I think. But no one has seen me so I don't know if that's a fair judgment for me to say.

Lady Sovereign