100 Quotes by Ann Reinking

All great directors - however, they do it - make you want to be good. I hope I do it. It's like being a parent, a psychiatrist, a disciplinarian and a friend.

It's to your advantage to work your brain as well as your body. The rest is up to fate.

To meet someone who you look up to like they are gods and goddesses, sometimes that person can disappoint you a bit.

Show dancing stood very well on its own a long time ago with dancers like Bill Robinson and Marilyn Miller.

In theatre or in ballet, the ballerina always passes on what they know. It's a hands-on craft. You can't really learn the soul and the pathos of it if you just see a video. It has to be taught by someone who is in the know.

Every great dancer has so much to offer.

Acting, like wine, gets better as time goes on. Singing gets better after a certain age. The dancer peaks at 35 or 40.

I ripped both hamstrings.

Dancing is the personification of music, and music is an abstract expression of the human spirit. But still it's the act of communication, of making one feel. Otherwise it would just be gymnastics.