Bob Fosse Quotes

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

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.

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.

Directors are never in short supply of girlfriends.

Dance expresses joy better than anything else.

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

In today’s world, everything seems like some sort of long audition.

You spend your whole life trying to get known and then you spend the rest of it hiding in the toilet.

Choreography is writing on your feet.

I thank God that I wasn’t born perfect.

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.

They may not know what I’m doing, but they know I’m doing something!