Ethan Stiefel - Quotes

Quotes

• "Somedays, I just don't want to take (ballet) class."
• "After ballet, I'd just want to work on motorcycles. I've got two."
• "American ballet, for me, is Stanley Williams."
• "Baryshnikov was and is my idol. He's the man. He was someone I've looked up to all throughout my life."
• "I enjoy what I do, so why not just go about it in a good way, a positive way he muses. I dont concern myself with becoming a star. I just go out there and try to give an honest performance and if, when I get offstage, I'm a complete schmuck, then that's me."
• "I actually quit ballet when I was 14, he says. I had just gotten a scholarship to the School of American Ballet, but it was so far away and there was no other school I liked nearby."
• "But then my father was transferred to New York, and ... I knew this was it. I saw the bright lights, big city, the professional companies and great dancers. I was in a great school and knew that this was serious business and I had to do it."
• "Dancing exacts a toll. I don't dance for applause. But there have definitely been moments, when I've been injured, when I say to myself, 'To come back to this, is it really worth it. It's just tough. It takes so much out of you physically and there's a lot of stress involved. Emotionally, it can drain you. I travel around a lot and it's great, it's exciting, but I don't see any of it. I do my shows and I'm off to the next place."