Top 139 Ballroom Quotes & Sayings

My old dance teacher, Jimmy Wilde, a former European ballroom dancing champion, was so sophisticated.

Ballroom dancing is like being on Mars compared to what I've done throughout my life.

I'm a phys ed major: that's ballroom dancing and handball.

When I was in the Pussycat Dolls, I did study jazz and pop, but Latin and ballroom were not at all in my world.

Ballroom is two people dancing together to music, touching in perfect harmony.

I have so many ways I can explain the ballroom scene. But the essence of the ballroom scene would be elegance, extravagance, and fabulousness to its 100 per cent. It's a place where you can be whoever you want to be inside of already being who you are.

I adore my apartment in New York. It was a ballroom that I remade, so it's like a loft but done by Louis the Fifteenth.

My ballroom dancing skills are completely non-existent.

Stop playing verbal games with me, madam, or I shall go out into that ballroom, find your mother, and bring her here

I've wasted the last five years of my life dealing in religious articles. People today find spiritual solace in ballroom dancing.

Ballroom dancing is so articulate. Your hips have to be a certain way, legs have to be straight at one time and bent another.

Strictly' has changed everything for ballroom dancing.

Yeah, I grew up doing ballet and jazz and tap, but I stopped at the age of 25, and I've never stepped foot in a ballroom.

Ballroom dancing is a contact sport. Rugby is a collision sport.

I trained in every form of dance - started as a tap dancer when I was a kid, then contemporary, ballet, ballroom, everything. Russian, Swedish.

Both my brother and I have only had dance experience with ballroom dancing.

My father made sure that I had lots of levels of education – from ballroom-dancing to painting, commando training, theatre and magic.

I did ballet at the Menlo Park Academy of Dance from age 4 to 11, but then I switched to ballroom, and I've been doing that ever since.

I was a go-go dancer at the Dom on East 10th Street in NYC. This was a glittering ballroom over Stanley's Bar. 1965.

There's a lot of hope and comfort and nurturing in the ballroom scene.

When you're out dancing with your friends, you think you're cool. But then you get in the ballroom, and it's totally different.

I went to see some voguing ballrooms and krump battles, and I was hypnotized by their body language. These guys, who are usually very poor, become stars onstage once a month in a ballroom or in a battle.

I did ballroom dancing at school, but I was atrocious.

I didnt learn until I was about 26 that my dad was a national ballroom dancing champion. He won loads of trophies. Im not sure why he was so quiet about his achievements. Maybe he thought ballroom dancing wasnt a manly thing to do.

It [Doral] is 800 acres in the middle of Miami. If you look at the ballroom, that was brand-new ballroom that didn`t exist. And it`s, you know, one of the great places on earth. We had a construction crew here of 1,600 people. We rebuilt the whole place in about 14 months. We did it under budget, although I did increase the scope of the work, because we decided to use the finest marbles.

At school people found it quite funny that I did ballroom, but I recently went to my school reunion and all they wanted to talk about was ballroom and 'Strictly.'

The first thing I ever did was play talent shows at the Uptown Theater and the Adelphi Ballroom.

What young men nowadays don't realise is that ballroom dancing can be such a source of enjoyment.

I started out in the ballroom scene when I was fourteen years old.

Little did I know that there's nothing more competitive in the world than a professional ballroom dancer. They are as competitive as Olympic athletes.

I love ballroom dance, my favorite style being the Argentine Tango.

I've known Chicago for 50 years; we used to play shows at the Avalon Ballroom.

When it came to the stylish and graceful art of ballroom dancing, my dad was a king of the clubs, a prowling tiger and a wonderfully natural mover.

I know how to waltz because I used to teach ballroom dancing when I was in high school.

I went to four different proms in high school. I was addicted to the whole ballroom thing.

The physical DNA has always been part of our family. My dad was a good boxer and gymnast; my mum is a ballroom dancer, and my brother does martial arts.

Ball culture saved my life, and many people don't understand that. But ballroom is where I found chosen and proven family.

Strictly' has evolved - there are such beautiful stories within each dance. We're not doing a ballroom and Latin competition, it's an entertainment show.

I am huge fan of Australian comedy. 'Strictly Ballroom' is one of my favorite movies. Definitely the British Commonwealth's sensibility is where I draw a lot of my influences.

One of my favorite venues is the Bowery Ballroom in New York. I love the room; there's a tiny stage, but I really like the feel of it.

My view is, for example with Ballroom and Latin, they do same sex competitions for under 12s and there are usually more girls than boys who want to dance and so there would be all-girl partnerships.

I grew up dancing. When I was three years old, my mom would always watch Latin ballroom dancing competitions on PBS.

I would love to do a little ballroom dancing with my husband... He and I can take a couple classes together. It would be a lot of fun!

I may be able to concentrate on a move, but it may not look exactly how I need it to look like, as far as in the ballroom world. Hip-hop is different; it is a lot more flowy with ballroom.

People talk about ballroom, but they don't really understand the history. Crystal Labeija, Avis Pendavis, Paris Dupree, Pepper LaBeija, Dorian Corey. These were the women that really brought ballroom to life.

Growing up in the Soviet Union, ballroom dancing wasn't the coolest thing to do. But that probably made me tougher, because it wasn't an easy task to do ballroom dancing and not get bullied. And I never got bullied in my life, even though I changed to five secondary schools in three different countries.

Fashion which affects to be honor, is often, in all men's experience, only a ballroom-code.

My father made sure that I had lots of levels of education - from ballroom-dancing to painting, commando training, theatre and magic.

It's very tough to transfer ballroom technique onto the ice, to give the illusion of the proper hip motion and position, with the speed and glide of the blade.

I was the kid who didn't speak English, with a violin and ballroom dance shoes.

Learn at least two classic ballroom dances, at least one of them Latin.

Today's ballroom dances like the swim, the frug, the chicken and the monkey are really nervous disorders set to music.

My parents used to go ballroom dancing in their latter years, and it gave them so much pleasure.

Ballroom dancing is so specific... it's so unique in its own way, that there's not really a lot of outlets where you can utilize that.

Ballroom is its own entity, its own sport. And I have the most respect for what the pros do.

It's great that ballroom dancing is being recognised. For many years ballroom dancers were misunderstood and other dance forms didn't want anything to do with us.

I know I'm never going to be a professional ballroom dancer.

I wrote... Neon Ballroom in that time where I hated music, really everything about it, I hated it.

No- I cannot talk of books in a ballroom; my head is always full of something else.

There's so much you can say about the ballroom scene. But, simply, it's just a way of life. It's a place you can live out a fantasy you never lived before.