87 Quotes by Suzanne Farrell

I’m thought of as a cool, unemotional dancer, but inside I’m not.

Even though I am a professional, and I know what the steps are, I don’t quite know how I’m going to do them, because I haven’t lived that moment yet. I always feel very insecure and I get very excited.

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.

The stage is not the place to remind the audience that one is human. Illusion is what they are paying for.

I loved the stage not because it provided an escape from myself or my humdrum life but because when the curtain went up I could be whoever I wanted to be, and that was true freedom – to be myself.

I liked to read but, being a dancer, I didn’t have a lot of time to read.