I used to love to play dress-up, where you get your mother's or your grandmother's dresses and high heels. — Suzanne Farrell Dresses Copy Share Image
I liked to read but, being a dancer, I didn't have a lot of time to read. — Suzanne Farrell Books Copy Share Image
I could work out a lot of my emotions by going to class and dancing. — Suzanne Farrell Class Copy Share Image
I'm thought of as a cool, unemotional dancer, but inside I'm not. — Suzanne Farrell Dance Copy Share Image
Once I started dancing, I was not the spoiled brat or the rebellious child that I was as a child. — Suzanne Farrell Brat Copy Share Image
“The stage is not the place to remind the audience that one is human. Illusion is what they are paying for.” — Suzanne Farrell Audience Copy Share Image
I can't read a note. I have lots of discipline, but I can't sit still at any instrument. — Suzanne Farrell Any Copy Share Image
You don't learn from a situation where you do something well. You enjoy it and you give yourself credit, but you don't… — Suzanne Farrell Credit Copy Share Image
I think it was important that I learned to love to dance eventually for its own sake, as opposed to wanting to… — Suzanne Farrell Ballerina Copy Share Image
I liked Latin, I like languages, I liked all the myths, and the Roman tales that we were required to translate in… — Suzanne Farrell Interesting Copy Share Image
I had a wonderful childhood, coming from Cincinnati, and I think that it was great going into the life that I was… — Suzanne Farrell Childhood Copy Share Image
It's ungrateful to be wishing you were doing something else at the moment you are living. You haven't lived in the moment… — Suzanne Farrell Somewhere else Copy Share Image
When you are on stage you don't see faces. The lights are in your eyes and you see just this black void… — Suzanne Farrell Ballet Copy Share Image
The steps must be second nature to me, so that the music seems to be drawing the steps out of me and… — Suzanne Farrell Drawing Copy Share Image
I had two sisters, and we would love to get dressed up and pretend that we were chic, sophisticated ladies. And I… — Suzanne Farrell Chic Copy Share Image
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 Ballet Copy Share Image
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 Ballet Copy Share Image
Although we do come from a silent profession, it is important for us to verbalize what we want to say. (As I… — Suzanne Farrell Ballet Copy Share Image
“Plie is the first thing you learn and the last thing you master.” — Suzanne Farrell Master Copy Share Image
But what was my motivation was music, and the fact that I love to move around. I'm always moving around. — Suzanne Farrell Facts Copy Share Image
I was very happy that I was as normal as possible before I went into serious dance. — Suzanne Farrell Ballet Copy Share Image
I liked tap, because I liked hearing the results of my movements. — Suzanne Farrell Dance Copy Share Image
The body can do amazing things in a situation when it is really called for. — Suzanne Farrell Amazing Copy Share Image
I didn't have any doubts about my choice of career, but I had constant doubts about my ability, yes. — Suzanne Farrell Ability Copy Share Image
You're never more of an individual than when you're a happy team player. — Suzanne Farrell Ballet Copy Share Image
In fact, ballet companies did not exist in the Midwest when I was a child. — Suzanne Farrell Ballet Copy Share Image
When you get on stage, you can be anything. You are removed from reality in a way, the real world. — Suzanne Farrell Real Copy Share Image
Do not brood. It makes the moment you are living in unavailable for learning and life. — Suzanne Farrell Ballet Copy Share Image
There is pain and sacrifice in everyone's world. That's why, when I was dancing, I had no pain. — Suzanne Farrell Dance Copy Share Image
Good theater should always send people away feeling changed. — Suzanne Farrell Actor Copy Share Image
And I just thought, this is what I want to be. And I knew that dancing would be my chosen profession. — Suzanne Farrell Chosen Copy Share Image
After I stopped dancing, I was unable to listen to beautiful music. — Suzanne Farrell Ballet Copy Share Image
I loved tests because it was another form of competing, a healthy competition. — Suzanne Farrell Competing Copy Share Image
