87 Quotes by Suzanne Farrell

I didn’t care too much for ballet, because you had to be more disciplined, and you sort of looked like everyone else. It required a certain kind of conformity that I didn’t feel like I wanted to do.

Plie is the first thing you learn and the last thing you master.

You’re never more of an individual than when you’re a happy team player.

I used to love to play dress-up, where you get your mother’s or your grandmother’s dresses and high heels.

There is pain and sacrifice in everyone’s world. That’s why, when I was dancing, I had no pain.

Dancers are a great breed of people. And they really want to dance so you don’t have to beg them to work. However, dancers sometimes build walls around themselves because they are presenting themselves all the time: dancing is very much a confession.

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

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

It’s ungrateful to be wishing you were doing something else at the moment you are living. You haven’t lived in the moment that you are really living, you are wishing you were somewhere else.