100 Quotes by Ann Reinking

I announced at the dinner table when I was 11 that I wanted to be a ballet dancer. But my goal changed to musical theater after the choreographer Robert Joffrey saw me perform while I was on scholarship at the San Francisco Ballet School.

I put all my energy and thoughtful commitment to everything that I do. There is no other way!

I'm used to things not coming in the packages you expect.

Working with people who have a lot of heart is just the best. You can hire it, but you cannot teach it. It's either there or it's not.

You can always work around this, that or the other, but if everybody's in there because they love it and they just want to do it the best they can, that's an ideal situation that you don't always get.

I came to New York with $500. That was a lot of money because my allowance was 50 cents.

You know, theater is either heaven or hell. There's no middle.

You can't force kids on people.

It's highly collaborative, musical theater, so everybody has got to somehow get along.