Fosse Quotes

She not only kept her lovely figure, she's added so much to it. ~ Bob Fosse

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

Choreography is writing on your feet. ~ Bob Fosse

Dance expresses joy better than anything else. ~ Bob Fosse

In my next lifetime, I want to come back as a composer. ~ Bob Fosse

I think Balanchine and Robbins talk to God and when I call, he's out to lunch. ~ Bob Fosse

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

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

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

No question that 'Birdman' is a breathtaking technical achievement, not a stunt. Shot in 30 days after a long rehearsal period, with the actors' and the camera's movements calibrated to the inch and the millisecond so the action flows smoothly, the picture has the jagged energy of a long guerrilla raid choreographed by Bob Fosse. ~ Richard Corliss

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

I thank God that I wasn't born perfect. ~ Bob Fosse

Sergio Trujillos choreography adds coals to the inferno, with movement that plain just doesnt stop. We know from Jersey Boys that he can capture this style, but in Memphis, he kicks it up towards art, playing with the authentic touches to add some hits of Fosse, or riffs from modern dance that take us just that extra step we need. ~ Richard Ouzounian

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

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

I picked up an old microscope at a flea market in Verona. In the long evenings, in my imitation of life science, I set up in the courtyard and examined local specimens. Pointless pleasure, stripped of ends. The ancient contadino from across the road, long since convinced that we were mad, could not resist coming over for a look.
I showed him where to put his eye. I watched him, thinking, this is how we attach to existence. We look through awareness's tube and see the swarm at the end of the scope, taking what we come upon there for the full field of sight itself.
The old man lifted his eye from the microscope lens, crying.
Signore, ho ottantotto anni e non ho mai Saputo prima che cosa ci fosse in una goccia d'acqua. I'm eighty-eight years old and I never knew what was in a droplet of water. ~ Richard Powers

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

I often wonder why, when governments and communities erect monuments to heroes, they forget to erect one to the honour of the Pioneer. ~ Frederick De La Fosse

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

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

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

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

Death is harder on those who are left behind. ~ Robert La Fosse

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

Because if there was one thing he didn't like it was big words, they just lied and covered things up, those big words, they didn't let what really was live and breathe but just carried it off into something that wanted to be big, that's what he thought ... ~ Jon Fosse

Can you be happy when you are unhappy? ~ Jon Fosse

I've never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer. ~ Bebe Neuwirth

My life is an open pamphlet. ~ Bob Fosse