Tommy Tune Quotes

#1. I've had albums out since the 1970s. I was in a musical, 'The Boy Friend,' directed by Ken Russell, and I was on Broadway in 'My One And Only' with Tommy Tune, so I've always been a singer, but I suppose people think of my modelling more.

Twiggy

#2. (reporter interviewing Broadway dancer Tommy Tune
'Do you think that greats like Fred Astaire possessed some kind of magic?'
(pause)
'No. Magic possesses them'.

Tommy Tune

#3. When you dance, your body just wants to find its natural weight. I'm naturally a lot more Tommy Tune than I am Wolverine.

Hugh Jackman

#4. I promised myself that we'd have this little air-clearing chat today without my tongue ending up in your mouth.

Bella Andre

#5. Comedy is the blues for people who can't sing.

Chris Rock

#6. I think Texans have more fun than the rest of the world

Tommy Tune

#7. But since He gave it them for their benefit and the greatest conveniences of life they were capable to draw form it, it cannot be supposed He meant it should always remain common and uncultivated. He gave it to the use of the industrious and rational (and labour was to be his title to it) ...

John Locke

#8. I don't know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.

Anne Lamott

#9. Nobody is original anymore. Nobody has any original style.

Iris Apfel

#10. I would just stand there puzzled, then realize this would be a great place to make a show.

Tommy Tune

#11. I've had this reoccurring dream for the last ten to fifteen years.

Tommy Tune

#12. One thing late or early can disrupt everything around it, and the disturbance runs outward in bands like the waves from a dropped stone in a quiet pool.

John Steinbeck

#13. Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that which is good, just, and honest.

John Winthrop

#14. It took me a minute more of standing there before I realized that I'd been dismissed. Before I
realized that a relationship can end just like that.

Leila Sales

#15. Will Rogers became the biggest, most popular, and highest-paid star of every existing media of his time. The biggest star America ever produced. What is even more remarkable, the things he said and wrote remain as relevant and meaningful today as they did 60 and 70 years ago.

Tommy Tune

#16. We used to play the Savoy Ballroom, and we always had a boogie tune in the set. Bands like Tommy Dorsey used to do a little boogie woogie. The big bands.

Jay McShann

#17. My idea of gambling was walking through Central Park, whistling show tunes.

Tommy Tune

#18. I believe once you watch a Miyazaki film, you'll get hooked.

John Lasseter

#19. Time is running out to permeate the piece.

Tommy Tune

#20. No, thanks. I already own a penguin.

Woody Allen

#21. I think of myself first as a singer, meaning an interpreter. Then I think of myself as a writer. It is an outlet I have to have. I get very hard to live with without something happening to write about.

Oliver

#22. Because I like to pick up where I left off and continue from there.

Tommy Tune

#23. The Bible is like a bull fiddle, you can play almost any tune you want on it.

Tommy Douglas

#24. I remember when I first rocked in it was a great big dance hall and Tommy Young was blowing trombone and Louis [Armstrong] was singing a tune and it was just Satchmo and you could hear it resounding through the dance hall and people were dancing. It was a highlight.

Gordon Lightfoot

#25. I like a show to unfold and keep presenting itself, surprising you.

Tommy Tune

#26. I liked the choreography, but I didn't care for the costumes.

Tommy Tune

#27. Don't get me wrong. I don't take anything for granted. But it seems like the better I play, the more attention I get. And I can't get away from it. You play great, you get attention. But I hate attention. It is weird. I'm in a bind. The more you win, the more they come.

Derrick Rose