Ann Reinking Quotes

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Ann Reinking

Profession : Actress

Birth : November 10, 1949

I think it's hard to live without some sort of faith.

Ann Reinking

When you're a teenager, you don't want to look different. So being very tall can set you apart, not being able to see very well can set you apart... and you just want to fit in. We all do.

Ann Reinking

Bob was very influenced by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill. That huge type of creativity which takes nothing and makes it into something very wrenching.

Ann Reinking

I like to stretch myself, and playing a dance-hall hostess is quite a stretch, but I feel comfortable with it.

Ann Reinking

You have no control over how tall you are or how long your legs are, but you do have control over how much you concentrate.

Ann Reinking

You know, theater is either heaven or hell. There's no middle.

Ann Reinking

The only thing I don't have is enough time.

Ann Reinking

Once a star... No matter what, there's something there, they give you something that's special.

Ann Reinking

I have a wonderful husband, sportswriter Peter Talbert.

Ann Reinking

It was sad to leave 'Pippin' because it was a kind of inspirational turning point in my life. But it was time to move on.

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The joy is in the work. The travel is the dues you pay.

Ann Reinking

The hope is that in rediscovering 'Chicago,' audiences will rediscover what theater was. It was sophisticated, complicated, adult.

Ann Reinking

To tell you the truth, I see any revolution as basically a penmanship exercise. It all loops around and winds up where you started.

Ann Reinking

Herb was a great husband.

Ann Reinking

You have to have tunnel vision as a dancer to get to where you're going. But once you get there, you have to save yourself by spreading your horizons. It's the paradox of this profession. The very thing that makes you very good will destroy you.

Ann Reinking

Dance saves lives.

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Dance is such a wonderful, universal expression, even if the bugle beads are wrong.

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The one good thing about dance is that if you are truly yourself, then it's all good.

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All great directors - however, they do it - make you want to be good. I hope I do it. It's like being a parent, a psychiatrist, a disciplinarian and a friend.

Ann Reinking

In sixth grade my teacher said that we had to do a talent show. You could sing or recite a poem... I went a wrote a little sketch for myself called 'Our Big World' about how many ways you could use a scarf.

Ann Reinking