Robert Helpmann famous quotes

The trouble with nude dancing is that not everything stops when the music stops.
-- Robert Helpmann

#Dancing #Trouble

Theatre remains the only thing I understand. It is in the community of theatre that I have my being. In spite of jealousies and fears, emotional conflicts and human tensions; in spite of the penalty of success and the dread of failure; in spite of tears and feverish gaiety this is the only life I know. It is the life I love.
-- Robert Helpmann

#Emotional #Community #Theatre

I think you can be contemporary without taking your clothes off.
-- Robert Helpmann

#Art #Thinking #Clothes

Ballet is like football. I don't understand a footballer's technique but I can see when he's playing brilliantly. People don't like ballet because they think they don't understand it. Actually they do. It's the most primitive form of appeal.
-- Robert Helpmann

#Football #Art #Thinking

People often say to me - how clever you are! How brilliant to be able to go from ballet to theatre as you do. I answer that it is not clever at all. It is the gift of looking at oneself coolly, of calculating the future objectively. I could see the danger signals as far as ballet was concerned before anyone else did, that's all.
-- Robert Helpmann

#Art #Clever #People

I was always nervous about coming back to Australia which was a complete hangover of the days when I left when ballet was not accepted, when I was not accepted, when I was considered a freak for wanting to be a ballet dancer. And, to be 100% honest, I rather dreaded coming back...
-- Robert Helpmann

#Art #Hangover #Australia

I don't despair about the cultural scene in Australia because there isn't one to despair about.
-- Robert Helpmann

#Art #Australia #Despair

And I saw Australia anew through her eyes. And I realised what a tremendously thrilling country it was. And ever since then I have been coming back regularly.
-- Robert Helpmann

#Country #Art #Eye

Aren't all ballets sexy? I think they should be. I can think of nothing more kinky than a prince chasing a swan around all night.
-- Robert Helpmann

#Dance #Sexy #Night

Oh, 'tis jesting, dancing, drinking Spins the heavy world around.

Prom has all the elements of a popular story. It reeks of all-Americanness, tension, drama. It has romance. Pretty dresses. Dancing. Limos. High school. Coming of age.

I knew I was happy when I was dancing.

I love dancing and the salsa is just so sexy.

Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.

This is for all ill-treated fellows Unborn and unbegot, For them to read when they're in trouble And I am not.

It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.

Americans often have trouble enjoying the present moment.

The trouble with many religions, accused of wishful thinking, is that they are not wishful enough. They show a deplorable lack of imagination.

Some folks goes right under when trouble comes, but I carry mine fur an' easy.