"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."

Ballet, Care, Conformity

42

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"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."

Exlpore more Ballet quotes

"I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle. It wasn't mine."

Rita Rudner, American Comedian

Ballet, Class

"If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts."

Ritchie Blackmore, English Musician

Ballet,

"You can't drink on an eight hour flight, pass out, and then go onstage... well you can, but then you're Spandau Ballet."

Robert Smith, English Musician

Ballet,

"I wanted so badly to study ballet, but it was really all about wearing the tutu."

Elle Macpherson, Australian Model

Ballet, Study

"When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire."

Angelina Jolie, American Actress

Ballet, Girls

"I toured the Middle Eastern countries with the ballet."

Leslie Caron, French Actress

Ballet, Countries

"There would never have been a British Ballet without Diaghilev. He had a wonderful influence."

Ninette de Valois, Irish Dancer

Ballet, Influence

"Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned."

George Balanchine, Russian Dancer

Ballet, Medicine, states, Teachers

"Classical ballet will never die."

Ninette de Valois, Irish Dancer

Ballet, Will

"I never went to a ballet until I was 45 years old. I don't know why."

Robert Caro, American Writer

Ballet, Old, Years

Explore more quotes by Suzanne Farrell

"When you get on stage, you can be anything. You are removed from reality in a way, the real world."

Reality

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

Dance

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

Thought

"So dancing was not something I had a great desire to do."

Dance

"I had two sisters, and we would love to get dressed up and pretend that we were chic, sophisticated ladies. And I think that was a great sort of preparation, in a way."

Love

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

Love

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

Time

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

Ability

"I had a wonderful childhood, coming from Cincinnati, and I think that it was great going into the life that I was going to have, where you have to start young as a dancer."

Life

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

Sacrifice