87 Quotes by Suzanne Farrell

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.

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.

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.

Once I started dancing, I was not the spoiled brat or the rebellious child that I was as a child.

But what was my motivation was music, and the fact that I love to move around. I'm always moving around.

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

I didn't have any doubts about my choice of career, but I had constant doubts about my ability, yes.

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.