Antonio Drija > Quotes

“Life is a mixture of pleasure and pain, a solitude filled with complete laughter, of real embraces, and of friends who I will not know when I will see again, laughing and crying on the same path of life, souls who meet each other simply because God exists. We are angels hidden behind the dance; we are spinning and undulating forms with a permanent rhythm; we are the brightness within the darkness, and the darkness within the Sun. It is not impossible to fly when wings do exist.”
― Antonio Drija, My life is a Cirque: A Latino in the Soleil

“I set myself a personal challenge every day to recognize my errors and my accuracies so I could verify whether I had made any mistakes, and to continue forward without punishing myself with guilt. I just had to get better day-by-day. That was my strategy in order to survive ten shows a week, year after year.”
― Antonio Drija, My life is a Cirque: A Latino in the Soleil

“I ask you not to let other people take over your talent, and let yourself be the one in charge of your own life. Sleep enough, eat well, and avoid excesses. Everything always changes; nothing stays the same. Your time is my time. I share my energy with you and your show is my show. Do not fall into that abyss of self-pity. Lift your head up with pride and count on your talent to carry on forward. Let’s respect each other and return to our humbleness, to that joy and that love in our hearts to make the world know, by way of our presence on stage, that everything is possible with love and we have to keep on shining. How much longer will we be here? Let’s get through this adventure by enjoying ourselves”.”
― Antonio Drija, My life is a Cirque: A Latino in the Soleil

“I’m convinced that we have to teach ourselves not only in the professional aspects but also in the spiritual ones, to be able to use the tools that help us develop from the inside.”
― Antonio Drija, My life is a Cirque: A Latino in the Soleil

“Besides knowing Arabic, French, and Italian, I later became fluent in English and I learned a little bit of Japanese. I didn’t know why I studied so much. And then later I discovered that each and every one of our actions have hidden reasons: once at the Cirque, and when I was performing the role of master of ceremonies dressed as a drag queen, I was able to take advantage of my proficiency in several languages in order to communicate with an international audience.”
― Antonio Drija, My life is a Cirque: A Latino in the Soleil