Robert Helpmann Quotes

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“Ballet is like football. I dont understand a footballers technique but I can see when hes playing brilliantly. People dont like ballet because they think they dont understand it. Actually they do. Its the most primitive form of appeal.”
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“The trouble with nude dancing is that not everything stops when the music stops.”

— Robert Helpmann

“I think you can be contemporary without taking your clothes off.”

— Robert Helpmann

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

“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

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

“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

“I don't despair about the cultural scene in Australia because there isn't one to despair about.”

— Robert Helpmann

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

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