Suzanne Farrell Quotes

Seeing 'Revelations' made me want to be a professional dancer.

I wanted to be a professional dancer for a period of time, and I did a lot of dancing and choreography and got paid for it.

I wanted to be a professional dancer my whole life.

I am seriously thinking of making dance as my major profession.

As soon as I started dancing at 14, I knew I was always going to be a professional dancer.

While dancing for me was fun, becoming a choreographer was not something I wanted to do.

You see, dancers are quite mature people because they start performing so early. They become professionals when they start to take everyday classes.

I have been very lucky to work in so many new ballets, but that is what a dancer's work is.

Dance is a profession with an expiration date for many people.

You spend your life having lessons, practising and competing as an amateur, and working during the day. As you get to the top end of the amateur field, you try not to work anymore; you earn your living through dancing, maybe by doing a bit of teaching. It's an ongoing life's work.

When I was younger, I used to want to be, like, a back-up dancer, and my mom was like, 'Well, you know, you can do that, but you might want to choose another career.'

I taught and studied dance in college, and for over a decade, I thought that would be my career: tap dancer, ballet dancer, modern dancer. I still find myself doing some tumbling or interpretive dancing in the grocery store every now and then.

So many people think of me as a character on TV, but first and foremost, my passion is teaching dance and creating employable, working dancers.

I am thankful that 'Jhalak' made me a professional dancer now from just a 'barat' dancer.

I always knew I wanted to dance. I started ballet when I was three years old, and I just knew it was something that I loved and that I wanted to do.

In fact, I never gave up doing dance shows despite films and even started my own dance school.

I had danced with Janet Jackson and P. Diddy so I had done a bunch of hip hop. Really and truly my roots are in modern and ballet but, professionally, that's not really out there any more, unfortunately, so these artists aren't really having a lot of ballet dancers behind them so I had to learn hip hop really quick.

I have worked with several dance companies.

In my heart, my first desire was to be a dancer. I always wanted to dance and I danced from the time I was 7 till I was well into my 30s.

I don't know, you know all through high school I just knew I wanted to do it.

My first professional relationship, I danced with the Parsons Dance Company, and David Parsons, my former boss, allowed me to choreograph on the company.

I didn't grow up on dance class. I was always natural. I've been in the industry since I was eight and I've always had a choreographer since then. But I never really took ballet or anything like that.

My mom is actually a former prima ballerina, and all the women in my family are associated either with dance or choreography or acting, so I'm very lucky in a way because I grew up in a family of artists. I've been dancing since I was a little kid.

I started out as a dancer as a kid; I've been dancing since I was 4. So performing was always part of what I was.

I know that dancers, especially ballet dancers, can't do it forever.