Nureyev Rudolf Quotes & Sayings

You live as long as you dance. — Rudolf Nureyev

I'm really alive when I'm on stage, — Rudolf Nureyev

When I miss class for one day, I know it. When I miss class for two days, my teacher knows it. When I miss class for three days, the audience knows it. — Rudolf Nureyev

People are either dwelling too much on the past or worrying too much on the future by totally forgetting the present. — Tim I. Gurung

I don't care if Margot is a Dame of the British Empire or older than myself. For me she represents eternal youth; there is an absolute musical quality in her beautiful body and phrasing. Because we are sincere and gifted, an intense abstract love is born between us every time we dance together. — Rudolf Nureyev

A meaningful life is made up of a series of daily acts of decency and kindness, which, ironically, add up to something truly great over the course of a lifetime. — Robin S. Sharma

The only critic is a full house. — Rudolf Nureyev

What is art? It is not just nature, it is nurtured nature. It is intelligence applied to what physical ability you have. — Rudolf Nureyev

I approach dancing from a different angle than those who begin dancing at 8 or 9. Those who have studied from the beginning never question anything. — Rudolf Nureyev

Who does understand life? — Ian McKellen

For me, purity of movement wasn't enough. I needed expression, more intensity, more mind. — Rudolf Nureyev

Come, don't be in a fright, but put on your clothes, and I'll let you into a secret. You must know that I am Captain of this ship now, and this is my cabin, therefore you must walk out. I am bound to Madagascar, with a design of making my own fortune, and that of all the brave fellows joined with me ... if you have a mind to make one of us, we will receive you, and if you'll turn sober, and mind your business, perhaps in time I may make you one of my Lieutenants, if not, here's a boat alongside and you shall be set ashore. — Henry Every

A pas de deux is a dialogue of love. How can there be conversation if one partner is dumb? — Rudolf Nureyev

You can imagine thistle-down so light that when you run after it your running motion would drive it away from you, and that the more you tried to catch it the faster it would fly from your grasp. And it should be with every man, that, when he is chased by troubles, they, chasing, shall raise him higher and higher. — Henry Ward Beecher

The main thing is dancing, and before it withers away from my body, I will keep dancing till the last moment, the last drop. — Rudolf Nureyev

Well, I say it's time to take Stephen Harper to the woodshed! — Jack Layton

I trained as a ballet dancer and fell in love with Rudolf Nureyev; I thought him the most beautiful creature. My mum had to break it to me that not only was he gay, but he was dead. — Jessica Brown Findlay

I worked on 'Blue Peter' and 'Tonight' and lots of TV plays, filmed people like Rudolf Nureyev and Ted Heath, and ended up a senior cameraman with my own crew. I'd had my first short story published in 1947, and when my writing really started to take off I decided to go freelance, and eventually left the BBC in 1965. — Michael Bond

Of course I have a personal life. — Rudolf Nureyev

Technique is what you fall back on when you run out of inspiration. — Rudolf Nureyev

So happy that Broken Bells is a thing in my life and really cool in so many ways. Not only, like, as something to sell records and be a band and whatnot, but just to give me an outlet and give me a fresh approach on things. — James Mercer

We danced with one body, one soul ... For me, Margot is my family. She is all I have, only her. — Rudolf Nureyev

I am still on stage. If you read Press ... you would believe that I should be gone. But here I am doing it and DOING IT WELL! — Rudolf Nureyev

As long as my ballets are danced, I will live — Rudolf Nureyev

(By 'abstract labour' Marx means work done simply in order to earn a wage, rather than for the worker's own specific purposes. Thus making a pair of shoes because one wants a pair of shoes is not abstract labour; making a pair of shoes because that happens to be a way of getting money is.) — Anonymous

There was simply from this quite early age the awareness that the only thing I wanted was to dance. — Rudolf Nureyev

While other girls swooned over The Beatles and the Rolling Stones, I worshipped Rudolf Nureyev and Isadora Duncan. — Celia Imrie

My feet are dogs. — Rudolf Nureyev

I really have to dance more often, and so I travel around. If I don't, I will crumble. — Rudolf Nureyev