|
"...and as far as my work is concerned, I've never
given it any thought except what was necessary to doing it, so I don't
really even know what it is like, much less what it is about."
|
| "My great-grandmother--my mother's father's mother--is the single
person, I guess, from whom I inherited my, well, talent. Or whatever you
want to call it. Helen St. John Garvey was her name. She supported the
family in the mid-nineteenth century by, oh, illustrating greeting cards
and writing mottoes." |
| "Well, nine years ago, if you were wearing nine rings when you
went into a restaurant, people would not hesitate to ask you why..." |
| "I'm just a stick-in-the-mud type. I don't like upsets to my tummy,
strange ringings in my ears, sleeping in strange beds." |
| [On the classical ballets] "Les Sylphides? Where they're
all looking for their contact lenses?" |
| "I do turn off in Swan Lake, it's true. I take little naps
when the corps de ballet is thrashing through it and running about." |
| "Who needs opinions?" |
| "[Balanchine is] the greatest living genius in the arts." |
| "I don't think the New York City Ballet Company is so far and away
above every company...but I think it's probably the best company I've
ever seen. You can often hear me bitching about somebody's performance,
but I'm bitching on a terribly high level." |
| "My nightmare is picking up the newspaper someday and finding out
George [Balanchine] had dropped dead." |
| "Gorey is opinionated, and even, at times, vicious, but he's almost
childishly unaware that anyone might find what he says objectionable;
one has the impression that if he actually discovered himself giving offense,
the remorse would overwhelm him." -Steven Schiff, The New Yorker,
1992 |
