Suzanne Farrell

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”