Quotes About Bob Fosse

#1. To go back to visit the early days with Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon, when she was the dance captain of 'How to Succeed,' and finding them again 25 years later and working with them on 'Charity.' That was really great fun.

Donna McKechnie

#2. Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon intimidated us all because she walked in and was going to be the dance captain. She was a great star, but she loved that kind of work as his assistant.

Donna McKechnie

#3. The director, of course, was Bob Fosse. But again, I worked with my father to prepare for the role.

Liza Minnelli

#4. I love visual stylists like Bob Fosse and Vincente Minnelli and Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger with The Red Shoes and The Tales of Hoffman.

Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

#5. You'd have to go all the way back to 1972 to find a version of me who didn't care about theater, who didn't read Playbill and watch the Tony Awards, or get why Bob Fosse's choreography was so groundbreaking that all you need to say is 'Fosse hands' and theater people know what you mean.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

#6. I never danced a step in my life so naturally. My first motion picture was a musical, and Bob Fosse was the choreographer. I didn't exactly dance for Fosse, I just did the best that I could to do what he taught us to do.

Dick York

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

Bob Fosse

#8. 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

#9. I drink too much, I smoke too much, I take pills too much, I work too much, I girl around too much, I everything too much.

Bob Fosse

#10. 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

#11. Choreography is writing on your feet.

Bob Fosse

#12. Dance expresses joy better than anything else.

Bob Fosse

#13. 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

#14. In my next lifetime, I want to come back as a composer.

Bob Fosse

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

Bob Fosse

#16. I think that there are a lot of elements and events that will make you scared in life and make you not want to sort of show your true self.

Daniel Breaker

#17. Listen to me. It takes a lot of courage to be true to yourself, true to your heart. You always have been very brave that way and I pray you always will be. It's your responsibility, Noah. Remember that.

Jandy Nelson

#18. 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

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

Bob Fosse

#20. I would venture to guess that if I was a construction worker ... who requested a transfer to another department for the betterment of his family, I would be commended for it. But because it's sports, there's just so much passion added to it.

Derek Fisher

#21. Live like you'll die tomorrow, work like you don't need the money, and dance like nobody's watching.

Bob Fosse

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

Bob Fosse

#23. My life is an open pamphlet.

Bob Fosse

#24. I thank God that I wasn't born perfect.

Bob Fosse

#25. If you think you can do better, then do better. Don't compete with anyone; just yourself.

Bob Fosse

#26. 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

#27. I'm still ambivalent about Hollywood. I think that's why I made 'Star 80.' To deal with the ambivalence. I really wanted to succeed Gene Kelly, and I thought it was a fair bet.

Bob Fosse

#28. The actor creates with his own flesh and blood all those things which all the arts try in some way to describe.

Lee Strasberg

#29. If you are sending someone some Styrofoam, what do you pack it in?

Steven Wright

#30. They may not know what I'm doing, but they know I'm doing something!

Bob Fosse

#31. And one would worship a woman whom all perfections dower, But the other smiles at transparent wiles; and he quotes from Schopenhauer . Thus two by two we wrangle and blunder about the earth, And that body we share we may not spare; but the Gods have need of mirth.

James Branch Cabell

#32. Directors are never in short supply of girlfriends.

Bob Fosse

#33. Jesus take the wheel

Carrie Underwood

#34. Don't dance for the audience; dance for yourself.

Bob Fosse