25 Quotes by Gelsey Kirkland

Ballet is a riddle of means and ends.

In saying my prayers, I discovered the voice of an innermost self, the raw nerve of my identity.

Classical virtuosity is more than technique, line, proportion, and balance. It is as if the performer and spectator come together to hold in their hands a bird with a broken wing. The creature can be felt to stir, to struggle for freedom. Its life responds to human warmth; its wing might brush your check as it flies away.

... each action taken in this world has its echo in the heart.

As unnatural as dancing is, you have to find a natural way to do the unnatural.

The dance goes on forever. So shall I. So shall we.

Fortunately for children, the uncertainties of the present always give way to the enchanted possibilities of the future.

I embarked on a risky course of plastic surgery and silicone injections, major dental realignments and gruesome medical procedures. I pray that young dancers, those who imitate me at their peril, will avoid this blind alley. It is more than a dead end; it is a dead beginning.

When you are on stage you are having an affair with three thousand people.