Bob Fosse famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Don't dance for the audience; dance for yourself.
-- Bob Fosse

#Dance #Audience
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

#Laughing #And Love #Serious
Dance expresses joy better than anything else.
-- Bob Fosse

#Joy
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
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
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
They may not know what I'm doing, but they know I'm doing something!
-- Bob Fosse

#Dancing #May
I think Balanchine and Robbins talk to God and when I call, he's out to lunch.
-- Bob Fosse

#Dance #Thinking #Lunch
She not only kept her lovely figure, she's added so much to it.
-- Bob Fosse

#Sarcastic #Lovely #Figures
In today's world, everything seems like some sort of long audition.
-- Bob Fosse

#Long #World #Today
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
I thank God that I wasn't born perfect.
-- Bob Fosse

#Perfect #Thank God #Born
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
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
Directors are never in short supply of girlfriends.
-- Bob Fosse

#Girlfriend #Directors

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