My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
AGNES DE MILLENo white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
-
-
We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
AGNES DE MILLE -
Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
AGNES DE MILLE -
The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
AGNES DE MILLE -
I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
AGNES DE MILLE -
No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
AGNES DE MILLE -
Find the passion. It takes great passion and great energy to do anything creative. I would go so far as to say you can’t do it without that passion.
AGNES DE MILLE -
This is the precise difference between dancing and acrobatics. The dancer tries to express something; the acrobat merely pulls, raises, stretches and grinds.
AGNES DE MILLE -
No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
AGNES DE MILLE -
So that we will miss nothing. Partly it’s greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.
AGNES DE MILLE -
Destiny is made known silently.
AGNES DE MILLE -
In the same way the lifted leg of an arabesque becomes a wing, and not a mechanical leverage like a raised trap door.
AGNES DE MILLE -
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.
AGNES DE MILLE -
Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
AGNES DE MILLE -
Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
AGNES DE MILLE -
Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they’re afraid that they’ll be forgotten. And in America they’re quite right. They will be.
AGNES DE MILLE






