Suzanne Farrell

I learned to love dance for its own sake.

— Suzanne Farrell

I was very much of a tomboy.

— Suzanne Farrell

The arts are the hospitals for our souls.

— Suzanne Farrell

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

— Suzanne Farrell

Treat each class as if it were your first.

— Suzanne Farrell

After I stopped dancing, I was unable to listen to beautiful music.

— Suzanne Farrell

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

— Suzanne Farrell

Do not brood. It makes the moment you are living in unavailable for learning and life.

— Suzanne Farrell

Good theater should always send people away feeling changed.

— Suzanne Farrell

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

— 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

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

— Suzanne Farrell

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

— Suzanne Farrell

I set as my goal to be the best dancer I could be. Not the most famous, or the highest paid dancer,…

— 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…

— 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…

— Suzanne Farrell

I loved the stage not because it provided an escape from myself or my humdrum life but because when the curtain went…

— Suzanne Farrell

I think especially in a world where you have so little say about what goes on in your life, or in the…

— Suzanne Farrell

On the other hand, I think it is wonderful for everyone to take ballet classes, at any age. It gives you a…

— Suzanne Farrell

When you are on stage in front of an audience, you want to engage the entire crowd. If a thousand people are…

— Suzanne Farrell

Eating a healthy diet is not just about eating a few special foods. There's a bigger picture. You need to practice moderation,…

— Suzanne Farrell

Although we do come from a silent profession, it is important for us to verbalize what we want to say. (As I…

— Suzanne Farrell

Fifth positions, heads, musicality, energy. Not technical things so much-getting your leg higher or doing more turns but things that would set…

— Suzanne Farrell

Dancers are a great breed of people. And they really want to dance so you don't have to beg them to work.…

— Suzanne Farrell

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

— Suzanne Farrell

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

— Suzanne Farrell

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

— Suzanne Farrell

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

— Suzanne Farrell

I was very happy that I was as normal as possible before I went into serious dance.

— Suzanne Farrell

As soon as I hear music, something in me starts to vibrate.

— Suzanne Farrell

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

— Suzanne Farrell

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

— Suzanne Farrell

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

— Suzanne Farrell

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

— Suzanne Farrell

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

— Suzanne Farrell

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

— Suzanne Farrell

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

— Suzanne Farrell

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

— Suzanne Farrell

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

— Suzanne Farrell

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

— Suzanne Farrell