Robert Gottlieb Quotes

Blood is the leitmotif of 'Black Swan.'

I danced with the London Festival at Covent Garden. I'm a ballerina by trade; I'm a ballerina who sings by the way.

No one around me was obsessed with Fred Astaire except for me. It just snowballed, really. I started with tap lessons. When I didn't have tap shoes, I taped nickels on the bottom of my penny loafers.

When I grow up I am going to be a ballerina. I will be in Giselle. It will be so much fun being a ballerina.

Being a ballerina, you don't ever want to show yourself less than perfect, ever. That's what your goal is: 24/7 perfection.

Chasing perfection can make you go mad.

The only number that would ever be enough is 0. Zero pounds, zero life, size zero, double-zero, zero point. Zero in tennis is love. I finally get it.

She was as one who, in madness, was resolute to throw herself from a precipice, but to whom some remnant of sanity remained which forced her to seek those who would save her from herself.

The perfectionist is another name for someone who is getting ready to become mad.

The hardest thing that I'll ever do, is ballet. Because you are either good or bad.

Barrel of the gun, rounds one two three She says I have to pick: choose you, or choose me Metal to the temple, the explosion is deafening Lick the blood that covers me She’s the last one standing “Roulette” Collateral Damage, Track 11

Suicide thwarts the plan of the entity which sends out the personality. Fortunately, the entity is far beyond the reach of man's destructive tendencies.

At twenty I tried to die And get back, back, back to you. I thought even the bones would do.

When you stare into an abyss for a long time, the abyss also stares into you.

Some so fear the future that they suffocate the present. It's like committing suicide to avoid being murdered.

Suicide is the role you write for yourself. You inhabit it and you enact it. All carefully staged -- where they will find you and how they will find you. But one performance only.

I wish there were some cure, like the lover's leap, for all heads of which some single idea has obtained an unreasonable and irregular possession.

If somebody wants to shoot up and die in front of you, more power to them. The herd has a way of thinning itself out.

Books were my passion and my escape from madness.

I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again.

Virgin suicide What was that she cried? No use in stayin' On this holocaust ride She gave me her cherry She's my virgin suicide

Madness is a kind of mental suicide.

I will be my undoing If I become my obsession.

It was the first time that I came face to face with madness and feared it and was fascinated by it.