Robert Helpmann quotes
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“The trouble with nude dancing is that not everything stops when the music stops.”
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“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.”
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“I think you can be contemporary without taking your clothes off.”
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“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 -
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“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.”
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“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...”
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“I don't despair about the cultural scene in Australia because there isn't one to despair about.”
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“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.”
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“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
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“Oh, 'tis jesting, dancing, drinking Spins the heavy world around.”
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Source : Agnes Repplier (2015). “Americans and Others”, p.24, Sheba Blake Publishing
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“Some folks goes right under when trouble comes, but I carry mine fur an' easy.”
Source : Alice Hegan Rice (2015). “Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch”, p.121, University Press of Kentucky
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