Antony Tudor famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Sometimes I feel as if sections of my ballets were done for me - that I didnt do them myself.
-- Antony Tudor

#Done #Sometimes #Feels
I would like to tell all dancers to forget themselves and the desire for self display. They must become completely absorbed in the dance. Even in a classical variation there should never be any thought of a dancer doing a variation--he should become identified with it.
-- Antony Tudor

#Dance #Self #Desire
If I see a human body on the stage, I don't see it as an abstraction. I see it as a body.
-- Antony Tudor

#Dance #Body #Stage

What we have done in the past is not sufficient now to prepare our youth.
Start with the assumption that the best way to do something is not the way it's being done right now.
But I've been there and done that. I'm not trying to prove anything to anybody, and if somebody wants me to come, if they can afford what I ask, it's not as much as Madonna makes; not that I want what Madonna makes, but I was saying.
Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
Sometimes what we want isn't what's best for us - Della
Sometimes, all it takes is your smile (even if forced) & a domino effect of smiles happen ... infectious.
Not just a timely movie, a great one...Timbuktu feels at once timely and permanent, immediate and essential.
I feel betrayed by own mother.
Whoever is for higher taxes, feel free to pay higher taxes.
I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.

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