Words matter. These are the best Sarah Hay Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Women should be happy with their bodies. Not being afraid of yourself is very empowering.
I’m into the scruff. I like an unkempt man. I mean, not like beard to the chest, but I’m definitely a Johnny Depp kinda girl.
I was bullied a lot as a kid.
There’s only a certain amount of space in every ballet company. You’re basically on a team. You want to succeed as a group but all want to have the same roles.
I prefer to be covered. I don’t wear a lot of low-cut things. I’d rather keep the attention to my brain, my face.
I would like to do some serious drama. I really connect with emotional characters who have struggles and a lot of emotion and colors. I don’t really want to do anything smiley and cheesy; it’s not really my personality when I’m working.
I’ve danced since I was 5 and went to the School of American Ballet at Lincoln Center at 7.
I had some struggles to find my footing. I couldn’t really find a place to appreciate me – I’m a little bit curvy for the dance world.
I like vintage clothes, a lot of ’80s band shirts. I wear a lot of my boyfriend’s clothes, too.
I was kind of a loser at ballet school. It’s all rich kids, and I was not a wealthy kid. I didn’t have the Chanel butterfly clip everyone else did.
There’s always very high tension with dance auditions! You’re in a group, watching the people in the front of the room, hoping you’ll get something, anything that will relieve a bit of the stress.
Over-the-top dance reality shows are hard for me to watch. The real drama in our world is much more emotional, personal, and extreme. There is manipulation and sneakiness.
Instead of watching cartoons when I was little, I had Russian ballet videos from, like, the 1950s and 1940s.
I love to play a character. If I’m playing Cinderella or Aurora in ‘Sleeping Beauty’ or something like that, then I enjoy classical a lot. But to do just a two-minute solo, purely to show classical aesthetic, is not my favorite thing to do.
I’m definitely happier dancing in Germany; in the U.S., there’s a different level of competition. I find in general that I try to get my voice heard about protecting women. It comes from everything I’ve been through personally – I’m opinionated, and that doesn’t make it that easy.
I would have to change my entire life if I went into acting. I dance eight hours a day, and then suddenly to be sitting on a set for 12 hours a day is a big difference for my health.
I think that ‘Flesh and Bone’ represents the dance world very authentically. There’s always this aspect of drama put on top of it, and it’s showcasing the problems of the dance world, but I’ve had experiences in reality that were written into the show.
I like my body. I don’t want to have to change it for anything – even if that means I have to take a step down as a dancer. I don’t think I’m ever going to sacrifice my figure for anyone else to accept me.
