Dance Quotes by John Guare

You can't kind of take away, you either do or you don't. If you kind of take away something you're a failure.

— John Guare

The Atlantic Ocean was something then.

— John Guare

The New York City Ballet is always about the realm of possibilities, the realm of what the human body can do, what the human…

— John Guare

The imagination says listen to me. I am your darkest voice. I am your 4 a.m. voice. I am the voice that wakes you…

— John Guare

How much of your life can you account for? My life is a collage of unaccounted for brush strokes; I am all random”.

— John Guare

To stay around any place you love, you have to have a job. In college at Georgetown in the fifties, I got my first…

— John Guare

You can read ten books and finally come across one detail, and it's like, "now everything else makes sense. Now I know where I…

— John Guare

The only riots were the people trying to get tickets.

— John Guare

I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner.

— John Guare

There's no such thing as a perfect play. Sometimes you have to protect the life of the play.

— John Guare

Feydeau's one rule of playwriting: Character A: My life is perfect as long as I don't see Character B. Knock Knock. Enter Character B.

— John Guare

I wanted to be a Bride of Christ but I guess now I'm a young divorcee.

— John Guare

I like to ground plays in reality so they can jump higher. So we can account for the trampoline, so we can account for…

— John Guare

People go to see beautiful paintings to see how much they cost. Wow. The practical value is that it shows you what the human…

— John Guare

And it is always Easter Sunday at the New York City Ballet. It is always coming back to life. Not even coming back to…

— John Guare