Antony Tudor Quotes

I used to be a dancer.

Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention.

I do my best creating on stage.

I've been a ballerina since I was two, but I've always wanted to be an actress.

There tends to be this hierarchy of film and television, and theater is somewhere else in its own milieu. However, as actors, yes, we love to do theater because it's our story. Nobody can edit it, the curtain goes up, and it's ours for two hours or three, or whatever. And we tell it.

I love performing.

I was a dancer first, which made me realize how much I loved performing.

So long as there is one pretty girl left on the stage, the professional undertakers may hold up their burial of the theater.

What interested me was dance - the way that it was constructed with time-space constructions, and that it was abstract. I always thought: 'Why couldn't theater be that way? Or an opera?'

All theater is dance.

I was a dancer for many years. I was a premier dancer with 'Porgy and Bess,' the opera. And I taught dance some, in different places.

I was a dancer and performer.

I was a dancer.

I just love performing.

It's hard for me to consider something in cinema or theater as something realistic.

I think everybody starts out by seeing a few works of art and wanting to do something like them. You want to understand what you see, what is there, and you try to make a picture out of it. Later you realize that you can't represent reality at all - that what you make represents nothing but itself, and therefore is itself reality.

The art of an actress is sublimated sexuality. But off the stage the fire must be able to reconvert the steam into body.

I'll always go back to the stage.

I am a musician and am so thankful for that. I have no experience of war. But I find a similarity between performing music onstage and acting - a reality of emotion.

The only thing I won't do is theater.

Performing live is like harvesting your crops and sharing your food with people.

The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.

Art is not a reflection of reality, it is the reality of a reflection.

I feel like my home is stage acting.

We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.