Suzanne Farrell Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“I learned to love dance for its own sake.”

“I loved tests because it was another form of competing, a healthy competition.”

“I'm thought of as a cool, unemotional dancer, but inside I'm not.”

“I could work out a lot of my emotions by going to class and dancing.”

“I like dramatic ballets, particularly if they're ballets in which I have a chance to go from one extreme of style or characterization to another.”

“When you are on stage, you don't see faces. The lights are in your eyes and you see just this black void out in front of you. And yet you know there is life out there, and you have to get your message across.”

“I had two sisters, and we would love to get dressed up and pretend that we were chic, sophisticated ladies. And I think that was a great sort of preparation, in a way.”

“I think especially in a world where you have so little say about what goes on in your life, or in the politics of the world around you, it is wonderful to go into that studio, and tell yourself what to do.”

“That the work involved, the willingness to take chances, the commitment, the opportunity to get on stage and make people happy, was more important than becoming famous, or even what I was dancing.”

“I didn't care too much for ballet, because you had to be more disciplined, and you sort of looked like everyone else. It required a certain kind of conformity that I didn't feel like I wanted to do.”