Bob Fosse Professions : Actor Born : June 23, 1927 Died : September 23, 1987 Browse All Authors Top 23 quotes by Bob Fosse 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 levels emotional strong 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 Don't dance for the audience; dance for yourself. Bob Fosse audience dance 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 funny-life love laughing I am not an educated person. I didn't come up through a ballet company. I came up through burlesque. So I have a lot of inferiority feelings concerning my own lack of education, my entry into show business. I'm not a Baryshnikov. I'm not a Nureyev. I came up in vaudeville. Strippers. So I've always had these feelings. But I think they've also helped me. Bob Fosse ballet feelings thinking Dance expresses joy better than anything else. Bob Fosse dancing joy They may not know what I'm doing, but they know I'm doing something! Bob Fosse dancing knows may Choreography is writing on your feet. Bob Fosse choreography feet writing In today's world, everything seems like some sort of long audition. Bob Fosse today long world 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 attractive fool people I think Balanchine and Robbins talk to God and when I call, he's out to lunch. Bob Fosse lunch dance thinking I thank God that I wasn't born perfect. Bob Fosse born thank-god perfect You spend your whole life trying to get known and then you spend the rest of it hiding in the toilet. Bob Fosse hiding toilets trying 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 husband stars kings She not only kept her lovely figure, she's added so much to it. Bob Fosse lovely figures sarcastic Directors are never in short supply of girlfriends. Bob Fosse girlfriend directors Live like you'll die tomorrow, work like you don't need the money, and dance like nobody's watching. Bob Fosse you money dance work If you think you can do better, then do better. Don't compete with anyone; just yourself. Bob Fosse yourself better think you My life is an open pamphlet. Bob Fosse pamphlet open my-life life Similar Authors Ian Mckellen actor Adhir Kalyan actor Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje actor Bert Lahr actor Alan Arkin actor Alan Alda actor All Authors
