Agnes de Mille Quotes

Modern Dancers Give A Sinister Portent About Our Times.

I Studied The Way I Danced- To The Point Of Dropping.

Toe Dancing Is A Dandy Attention Getter, Second Only To Screaming.

My Heroines Are Part Of Me And My Heroes Are Part Of What I'd Like To Know.

There Is Something Fearfully Strengthening About Cutting Free Even If The Ties Bandage The Heart Itself.

Ours Is An Upbeat, A Hurried, Hasty Beat. It Keeps Pressing Us To Go Farther, To Include Everything So That We Can Savor Everything, So That We Can Know Everything, So That We Will Miss Nothing. Partly It's Greed, But Mainly Its Curiosity. We Just Want To Experience It. And We Do.

A Good Education Is Usually Harmful To A Dancer. A Good Calf Is Better Than A Good Head.

No White Man Uses His Feet The Way An Indian Does. He Talks To The Earth.

The Universe Lies Before You On The Floor, In The Air, In The Mysterious Bodies Of Your Dancers, In Your Mind. From This Voyage No One Returns Poor Or Weary.

I Want One Word On My Tombstone - Dancer.

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.

Modern Dancers Give A Sinister Portent About Our Times. The Dancers Don't Even Look At One Another. They Are Just A Lot Of Isolated Individuals Jiggling In A Kind Of Self-hypnosis And Dancing With Others Only To Remind Themselves That We Are Not Completely Alone In This World.