Ann Reinking Quotes

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Ann Reinking

Profession : Actress

Birth : November 10, 1949

To meet someone who you look up to like they are gods and goddesses, sometimes that person can disappoint you a bit.

Ann Reinking

In theatre or in ballet, the ballerina always passes on what they know. It's a hands-on craft. You can't really learn the soul and the pathos of it if you just see a video. It has to be taught by someone who is in the know.

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Bob's work gleaned from hoofing, from vaudeville, from ballet.

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One of the things that made Bob so unique and wonderful is that he had a genuine style, like Balanchine, like de Mille.

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Once Bob commits to something, it's almost like a child. He doesn't want anybody else to take care of it, even if it might be to his detriment.

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If you can't trust, it's harder to love and if you can't love it's harder to be happy.

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The reason why I believe faith is important for a person is that it teaches you to trust.

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It's hard to dance after a certain age. All those athletic things - like looking up at my kneecaps - they're just not there anymore.

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If you're a woman and you're working, you're already set up for conflict.

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It's a good idea to have your career intact and then have children.

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That's very important when you're doing an ensemble piece, that you give it a variety of levels so it doesn't get too homogenous.

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There's a lot of heart to Bob's work that doesn't always get recognized because of all of the sensuality, dark statements and wit of his work.

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Michael Bennett, Tommy Tune and Agnes de Mille fought to be director-choreographers. They were just not going to do it any other way because the choreographer is so often at the bottom of the creative totem pole when you put a show together. So with that power you get a more direct point-of-view and that helps something called style.

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I announced at the dinner table when I was 11 that I wanted to be a ballet dancer. But my goal changed to musical theater after the choreographer Robert Joffrey saw me perform while I was on scholarship at the San Francisco Ballet School.

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Something can be said for quitting for a little while. You can get completely drained as a performer and creator. You have to fill back up.

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I'm used to things not coming in the packages you expect.

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You can always work around this, that or the other, but if everybody's in there because they love it and they just want to do it the best they can, that's an ideal situation that you don't always get.

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It's highly collaborative, musical theater, so everybody has got to somehow get along.

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The odd thing about Bob is that even though he's known as really taking chances and being very sensual, he was also a very moral man.

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I want people to know I'm a good actress.

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