Quotes by Suzanne Farrell

About Suzanne Farrell:

Suzanne Farrell is an eminent 20th-century ballerina (often referred to as the greatest American lyric ballerina) and the founder of the Suzanne Farrell Ballet at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.
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On the other hand, I think it is wonderful for everyone to take ballet classes, at any age. It gives you a discipline, it gives you a place to go. It gives you some control in your life.

Suzanne Farrell

The body can do amazing things in a situation when it is really called for.

Suzanne Farrell

Of course, in the art class, I was the model.

Suzanne Farrell

I was very much of a tomboy.

Suzanne Farrell

In fact, ballet companies did not exist in the Midwest when I was a child.

Suzanne Farrell

I loved tests because it was another form of competing, a healthy competition.

Suzanne Farrell

I liked tap, because I liked hearing the results of my movements.

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.

Suzanne Farrell

The particular ballet was not so important as the fact that I was physically healthy, and capable of getting out there and dancing as often as possible.

Suzanne Farrell

I liked Latin, I like languages, I liked all the myths, and the Roman tales that we were required to translate in Latin, and all these interesting people who were never quite what they thought they would be or seemed to be.

Suzanne Farrell

And I just thought, this is what I want to be. And I knew that dancing would be my chosen profession.

Suzanne Farrell

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

Suzanne Farrell

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

Suzanne Farrell

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

Suzanne Farrell

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.

Suzanne Farrell

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

Suzanne Farrell

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.

Suzanne Farrell

I can't read a note. I have lots of discipline, but I can't sit still at any instrument.

Suzanne Farrell

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.

Suzanne Farrell

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

Suzanne Farrell

Author Bio

  • NameSuzanne Farrell
  • DescriptionAmerican ballerina
  • BornAugust 16, 1945
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionBallet Dancer
  • AwardsNational Medal Of Arts