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Dancing takes a certain lightness, a spring in the step, an elasticity in the calves; a kind of joie de vivre, or alternatively a leavening element of self-proclaiming stupidity in one's make-up.
I have this mistress: show business.
Although I'm predominantly known for game-shows, I do prefer to be known as a performer.
It's a corset design making me look very, very slim and trim. I call it a corset dress. Very Hollywood glamour with the silk.
I know I'm not the greatest singer or dancer, but that doesn't interest me. I'm interested in being provocative and pushing people's buttons.
When I was a dancer, I was acting.
When the dancer only moves in a straight line but still manages to travel from one side of the stage to the other with out turning, you know you are in a Mobius Strip club
I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.
A one woman cabaret of emotional impressionism
I'm a chanteuse and a diva, and I'm an actress who likes a script.
I'm your private dancer, a dancer for money, I'll do what you want me to do.
I think all old folk's homes should have striptease. If I ran one I'd have a striptease every week.
A dancer is a dream
I am a performer; that's what I like to do.
Naked acrobatics are on my resume
I have a bit of a frustrated dancer in me.
I've been to strip clubs where the dancers have these whole routines that they create just for the wow factor and to say, 'Look how strong and physically fit I am.' Most women couldn't do it, and it's not necessarily sexual. It's just a performance.
Oh, Lolita, you are my girl, as Vee was Poe's and Bea Dante's, and what little girl would not like to whirl in a circular skirt and scanties?
It was a cream colored trapeze, sleeveless with a keyhole top that may or may not have been showing managerialappropriate cleavage. -Georgina
Something about being here in this neon-glitzy place, my shoes off and my boobs pushed up to my neck made me feel bold. Daring. Ready to grab the world by the balls and make it beg for mercy. Rawr.
If this were a musical, this would signal the start of a dance number. Angry girls sexy danse in unison around the bull pen. Men stride up and grab a partner to a choreographed tango."
Nolan held his hand out.
"Give me your man card. You have never sounded more like a girl than right now.
Erotica for the Soul
I'm not much of a dancer.
Give me a strapless gown and a rhinestone-studded guitar and some 55-year-olds in my audience, along with their kids and grandkids. Don't give me 'boogie'!
The clothes have to perform for me.
There is no greater bliss than dancing and performing.
A tawdry, cartoonlike version of female sexuality has become so ubiquitous, it no longer seems particular. What we once regarded as a *kind* of sexual expression we now regard *as* sexuality.
Her midriff bare, like the denizen ... of some pampering seraglio.
I want one word on my tombstone - dancer.
We take a dash of sexiness, a dash of spice, and blend it in with awesomeness and glory. Then we dance.
When a sex tape gets made a star is born with a publicity agent on speed dial a six figure payout and a line of tacky lingerie in the works
People call me the painter of dancing girls. It has never occurred to them that my chief interest in dancers lies in rendering movement and painting pretty clothes.
Do not you feel a great inclination, Miss Bennet, to seize such an opportunity of dancing a reel?
Oh, there ain't no love, no Montagues or Capulets
Just banging tunes and DJ sets
And dirty dancefloors and dreams of naughtiness
I Bet that You Look Good on the Dancefloor
I haven't had the most thrilling lifestyle. I was a pretty good dresser, but I would have a pretty boring 'Behind the Music.'
Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas - including this one.
In an exhibition wherein paintings of nudes were commonplace, that of Madame Gautreau in her black evening dress was considered scandalously erotic. -from The Greater Journey
I'm an excellent dancer. I keep up with whatever's hot. I've been break-dancing and pop-locking since back in the day.
14. Sensuality Sensuality
The flick of her hip is distilled erotica, a practiced sexuality.
I do some eccentric dancing.
The most exuberant expression of the body is in dance. Dance theater is wonderful. The dance becomes fluent sculpture. The body shapes the emptiness poignantly and majestically. The
I love doing stunts.
Nudity is the costume of lovers and corpses.
Oh my, you big stud, your dancing boobs have enchanted me with your hypnotic sexual magnitudeness.
We followed the bondage Bobbsey Twins across the crowded dance floor. Those leather shorts were an adventure from behind, let me tell you.
And the pictures of Elvis decorating the walls were an education, too. It wasn't often you ran into a bondage/Elvis/ whorehouse-themed vampire
club.
Tad Christopher in the Tango kitchen with real whipped cream?" "Sounds like Gay Clue, doesn't it?
So I'm not just going to manage a casino, I'll also be a bordello queen.
I always loved to dance and move. I probably should have been a mime or something like that.
So it's off with the shellsuit and on with the Armanis,
Bring out the champagne and the caviar sarnies
I like the architecture of lingerie.
If I took a candy bar, ripped off the wrapper, ate the candy bar, and pinned the wrapper to the wall, is that art, performance art, both, or neither?
I'm an Action Transvestite
Dancing cheek to cheek.
I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.
You know what's really hot? Pop-and-locking, ticking. The moonwalk. Tricks like that.
VIOLENT HOOLA-HOOPING!!!!!!
...a man within the breast...
Fashion should be playful.
Is this some kind of BDSM game, or something like that?
It's almost sad that it's something that's just associated with stripping or because someone is slutty. That's really not it. It's actually a really great way to get a work-out and to build upper body strength and to have fan.
Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly.
We have all, at one time or another, been performers, and many of us still are - politicians, playboys, cardinals and kings.
Life isn't a cabaret. It's a dive bar.
A circus of stars,
your dreams a trapeze, faces
lift like mirrored moons.
I once saw a Betsey Johnson runway show that featured thongs and "ass cleavage," and I thought, This is the future.
Art is spirituality in drag
On the cover of this publication a bikini-clad young woman disported herself with a medicine ball, both articles looking as though they had been inflated with a bicycle pump.
I'm not like a performer type.
The art of an actress is sublimated sexuality. But off the stage the fire must be able to reconvert the steam into body.
It's about time that people forget that image of strip clubs as seedy places ... Rather, today's clubs are capital-intensive female-empowerment zones ...
I like very much to put on fashion shows.
There is parody, when you make fun of people who are smarter than you; satire, when you make fun of people who are richer than you; and burlesque, when you make fun of both while taking your clothes off.
Here too it's masquerade, I find:
As everywhere, the dance of mind.
I grasped a lovely masked procession,
And caught things from a horror show ...
I'd gladly settle for a false impression,
If it would last a little longer, though.
I've basically turned into Liza Minnelli: I'm dancing in tights and sequins, begging you to love me.
As ever, it was fifty percent fashion show, forty percent club, ten percent sex party, and one hundred percent annoying.
A dancer's career is short - you just keep going until your legs pack up.
I love the whole lingerie outfit - you know, thigh-high tights and garters.
I like to be glamorous so I love the clothing and the big entrances. It needs to be spectacular!
I'm in showbusiness. I'm an entertainer.
When I came back from filming the 'Chandelier' video, everyone was like, 'So what'd you wear? What did the room look like? How many chandeliers were there?' And I was like, 'Well, I wore a blond wig, a nude leotard, the room was dirty, and there was no chandelier.'
Talent is seductive.
Dance in the most perishable of the arts. Ballets are forgotten, ballerinas retire, choreographers die
and what remains of that glorious production which so excited us a decade ago, a year ago, or even last night?
I was in 'Rent,' for God's sake. The closest we came to stunts was dancing on a table.
You can no longer just have a magazine that shows you this glossy impervious image of women - in the studio, artificial, wearing a push-up bra.
Queers doing cowboy dancing. Who would've thunk it? Kids who grew up in Galveston and Tucson and Modesto, performing the folk dances of their homeland finally, finally with the partner of their choice.
The secret of showmanship consists not of what you really do, but what the mystery-loving public thinks you do.
I'm a drag queen. I'm a celebrity trapped in a normal person's body.
'Empty Moves' is elegantly and coolly inventive. Two pairs of dancers shadow each other in slow, deliberate rearrangements and manipulations of legs and torsos, only occasionally switching partners or breaking free of the formal patterning.
My wife is the dancer, but I certainly know how to sing.
Hey, pretty dancer. Think you could put on a private show for me?
In the press, my sex life was something else again. I was Lady Bountiful of the Sheets. Some of the best fiction of the Sixties was written about my amorous adventures with an assortment of lovers who could have only been chosen by a berserk random sampler.
Daddy, What's the horizontal tango?
It's a marvelous night for a moondance!
I'm pretty straightforward as a performer, but I do have a bit of a diva in me.
I like to groove a little bit!
dance. She was so damned sexy. "Puleeze, do you really think I'm that
Killer skirt, deadly legs.
I love performing.
Ballet.something pure in this crazy world