Bob Fosse Quotes & Sayings

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

In today's world, everything seems like some sort of long audition. — Bob Fosse

My life is an open pamphlet. — 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

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

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

If you think you can do better, then do better. Don't compete with anyone; just yourself. — 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

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

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

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

Choreography is writing on your feet. — Bob Fosse

In my next lifetime, I want to come back as a composer. — 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

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

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

Dance expresses joy better than anything else. — Bob Fosse

Directors are never in short supply of girlfriends. — Bob Fosse

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

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