Top 107 Tango Quotes & Sayings

You can raise welts like nobody else, as we dance to the Masochism Tango.

You just can't take a crash course to be a tango dancer in a movie.

The tango reminds me of movies.

We believe that we should come to an agreement with the Palestinians. But we need two to tango.

It's really hard to be all serious in the tango and not break into laughter.

I think those who say that you can't tango if you are not Argentine are mistaken. Tango was an immigrant music... so it does not have a nationality. It's only passport is feeling.

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

The beginning and the end of the tango is the walk.

If you mention any ideological thing about shooting Last Tango in Paris, I was thinking I was doing a political film.

'Downton' took a long time to catch fire in America, but we have been getting good reviews for 'Tango.'

You can teach a bear to tango on a barrel but his enthusiasm and performance are limited and brief.

Daddy, What's the horizontal tango?

I really thought 'El Tango Roxanne' was perfect for Halloween night. It's creepy and intense.

I once went to La Boca district, where you can watch street performers doing tango, and joined in. But it's very hard to dance in Birkenstocks.

The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a celebration.

If you get all tangled up, just tango on.

Will.i.am and I performed at Wango Tango. That's when my daughter said that I had made it in music.

Niggas know my pussy taste like mango-tango so they put a couple karats in my ankle bangles

I don't do so much acting work now, as there aren't the parts except for 'Tango'. So if I didn't have the cabaret work, I don't know what I would be doing.

When you dance tango fast, you have to think slow.

'Tango' is very much an ensemble piece and I was devastated when I read the script.

There might have been a period around 'Tango & Cash' when I was nearly fashionable. My problem is that my weight's always been changing for the movies I'm in.

Do you play football?' Brandon asks. 'No.' 'Baseball?' 'Nope.' Brandon is on a roll and won't stop until he's found the answer he's looking for. 'Tennis?' 'That would be a nada' 'Then what sport do you play?' Carlos puts down his food. Oh, no. He's got a rebellious gleam in his eye as he says, 'The horizontal tango.' ...Alex stands and says through chlenched teeth, 'Carlos let's talk. In private. Ahora.' ....Brandon turns to my dad with big, innocent eyes. 'Daddy, do you know how to do the horizontal tango?

My baby she'll take a chance, my baby got a brand new dance, Wango Tango, Wango Tango.

The Argentine tango isn't here to play nicely with the other children. The Argentine tango is here to seduce your women, spill things on your rug, and sneak out your bedroom window in the middle of the night.

I tried to play Piazzolla's 'Grand Tango' at 20 and failed miserably. You need a little experience of life for tango.

Dance tango and you are literally plastered up against somebody's body

I've always wanted to learn the Argentine tango.

I love tango, and I used to dance when I was young.

I grew up listening to everything. You know, from Argentinean folk music, tango, jazz, rock, just everything.

When you're 50, the best thing to do is dance the Argentinean tango.

For me, tango was always for the ear rather than the feet.

The tango is really a combination of many cultures, though it eventually became the national music of Argentina.

My body's weird and bent in different ways, but it's handy for the tango!

It takes two to tango! I need everybody to sing with me.

It's entirely possible to function as a free-thinking individual without succumbing to narcissism. This can be tricky at times, I suppose, but then so can the tango - particularly if you're dancing alone.

I had to do a tango with Raft and I learned to dance in ballet shoes with my knees bent.

There's something about the tango that brings even more emotion out of the lyrics.

In my childhood, I was very fond of western music and dance forms like Hip Hop, Salsa, Tango, etc.

'Tango' was a good experience, looking back on it, and it seems to hold up pretty well.

It started at 49 with 'Tango in Halifax' and then 'Happy Valley.' I can't complain at a time when most actors are disappearing. I seem to have become very visible.

Even though I had pushed through the Tango album, it was just not a very good environment to be in on a daily basis. In many ways, this is the best time of my life.

Personally, I now aim for one month of overseas relocation or high-intensity learning (tango, fighting, whatever) for every two months of work projects.

I still can't believe that some pseudocritics continue to accuse me of having murdered tango. They have it backward. They should look at me as the saviour of tango. I performed plastic surgery on it.

The traditional tango is really staccato, but with the Argentine tango, you have to be really sexy and saucy.

Tango is about feeling and sensitivity, otherwise you are just doing gymnastics. You can do all the steps but it has to have the feeling and sensitivity of authentic tango.

It's a joy doing 'Tango.' I'd do it till the day I die, frankly.

I haven't tried my favorite dance - the Argentine tango - with Vernon yet. I'm sure there would be a lot of toe stamping going on!

I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry.

Honestly, I don't really know the rules of tango!

If you mention any ideological thing about shooting 'Last Tango in Paris,' I was thinking I was doing a political film.

Sophisticated but at the same time dramatic and seductive, Tangerine Tango is an orange with a lot of depth to it.

A while ago, I got a chance to learn tango for a performance in my college.

Everyone should learn to tango in Argentina before they die.

People very rarely know my real name but recognise me as characters from my shows, such as 'Last Tango In Halifax.'

I'm a bad walker but I can dance tango. You know why? Put your hand up. Push on my fingertips and just hold it. In tango, your feet are free but the top of your body pushes, so if I feel like I'm gonna fall, my partner can catch me. So I walk with a stick but I can totally dance the tango. It's a romantic kind of thing.

I actually enjoyed making 'Tango In The Night.'

The Argentine tango is very special to me because it's full of sensuality. The chemistry between the man and woman is absolutely stunning.

In plain proletarian worker's language, it takes two to tango.

I'm dancing tango, and I'm playing golf, and I'm quite active, you know, and for my age and everything, and what I've gone through, I'm very happy.