Andre Bjerke famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • When you dance and move around it creates a different reaction from the audience - they love it.

  • Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.

  • The choreographic process is exhausting. It happens on one's feet after hours of work, and the energy required is roughly the equivalent of writing a novel and winning a tennis match simultaneously.

  • Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible

  • Dancing is such a despised and dishonored trade that if you tell a doctor or a laywer you do choreography he'll look at you as if you were a hummingbird. Dancers don't get invited to visit people. It is assumed a boy dancer will run off with the spoons and a girl with the head of the house.

  • There was a time when the music fell silent. Both within me and around me.

  • A woman's place in public is to sit beside her husband, be silent, and be sure her hat is on straight.

  • Two-thirds of American movies are extensions of commercials -- they tell you how to feel and they tell you how to think -- rather than letting you figure it out on your own.

  • I like to make an image that is so simple you can't avoid it, and so complicated you can't figure it out.

  • It takes some experimentation to figure out what people like and don't like.