Quotes About Jerome Robbins

#1. A child fairer than a pictured cherub - a creature who seemed to shed radiance from her looks and whose form and motions were lighter than the chamois of the hills.

Mary Shelley

#2. There's no secret to working with kids. They either charm you and you can work with them, or they don't charm you and you feel you're stuck with them.

Jerome Robbins

#3. Dance is low on the totem pole of the arts, because you're not left with a painting ... a book that will stay there, a score you can read.

Jerome Robbins

#4. Pain is nature's way of telling you to slow down. Death is nature's way of telling you to stop.

Jim Fixx

#5. I told you to sell it, not give it away.

Jerome Robbins

#6. We were all novices. We really were. We didn't know a goddamn thing about doing a show.

Jerome Robbins

#7. 'Seven Sonatas,' with its flowing series of meetings between men and women in an identifiable emotional world, is in the mould of Jerome Robbins' glorious 'Dances at a Gathering.'

Robert Gottlieb

#8. Dance is like life. It exists as you are flitting through it, and when it's over, it's done.

Jerome Robbins

#9. Life is a constant creation. It is a moment by moment, instant by instant creation. I don't mean by this that it is a set of discrete creations, it is not like that. But nevertheless, this spontaneity is constantly arising. And it is within this that is our freedom.

Albert Low

#10. Fame sweeps you away. I had to go home every six months to remember who I am.

Sissy Spacek

#11. The paradox of learning how to make better decisions is that it requires developing a comfort with doubt. There

Charles Duhigg

#12. Marriage is a land mine. A really intimate land mine. Adultery to kitchen fires. Never a dull [moment].

Nora Roberts

#13. As a dancer I had worked with really hard choreographers, Jerome Robbins being the toughest. And you learned what it is to hit against a brick wall. And you learned pretty quickly to go around the wall or say, "I can't take this job."

Joan Tewkesbury

#14. There are movies where we are interested in seeing people's lives without agreeing with what they're doing.

Natalie Portman

#15. If you set your love on worldly things, they will not satisfy.

Thomas Watson

#16. Give me something to dance about and I'll dance it.

Jerome Robbins