Ballet Quotes
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Ballet Quotes & Sayings
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He dances well to whom Fortune pipes.
— John Ray
I've never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.
— Bebe Neuwirth
I'm a classical ballet dancer, and at the end of the day I want to be with American Ballet Theater, performing classical ballets.
— Misty Copeland
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It is vain for Mr. McCabe to say that a ballet is a part of him. He should be part of a ballet, or else he is only part of a man.
— G.K. Chesterton
Ballet is good, because it makes you stand up tall.
— Carine Roitfeld
When you are confronted with an opera, you have to keep an eye on everything: the musicians, the chorus, the ballet, the singers, the staging.
— Placido Domingo
Since my mom is the President of Ballet Hawaii, I'm always in touch with stuff going on.
— Joan Chen
Sweetheart, wherever you are, that's where I'll be. Forever.
— Samantha Chase
Ballet teaches you how to hold yourself.
— Joseph Altuzarra
I am both proud and honored to be on the Board of Directors for the Texas Ballet Theater.
— Janine Turner
You know, ballet might be too formal of a title for the type of dance I do, but I love to dance.
— Jeff Bridges
Ballet companies have their ups and downs, just like the rest of us.
— Robert Gottlieb
I still love to see the ballet. And I love to boogie.
— Alicia Vikander
Coco Chanel was always doing things with ballet, so it is a tradition clashing fashion and ballet.
— Carine Roitfeld
I'd say the only time I ever get nervous is around great ballet dancers or people I really admire.
— Dita Von Teese
I trained in every form of dance - started as a tap dancer when I was a kid, then contemporary, ballet, ballroom, everything. Russian, Swedish.
— Nigel Lythgoe
I do take class because I still dance, and yes, I do slip into class with the Royal Ballet from time to time.
— Deborah Bull
It takes a lot of money to be a part of the ballet world. Both the training and the supplies are expensive, the shoes, the leotards and the tights.
— Misty Copeland
Don't you think you're quite young?''I'm twenty-one,' said Brida. 'If I wanted to start learning ballet, I'd be conseidered too old. — Paulo Coelho
I do after-school ballet and also hip-hop and jazz.
— Elle Fanning
Ballet Hispanico is far from Irish, and, though it has strong dancers, its Spanishness has always left me unconvinced.
— Robert Gottlieb
He was a punk, she did ballet. What more can I say.
— Avril Lavigne
At 7, I was at the barre and dancing at folk festivals. Then I was a student with the ballet school of the Metropolitan Opera.
— Maria Karnilova
Ballet.something pure in this crazy world
— Misty Copeland
Cincinnatians support a symphony, an opera, a ballet, museums, many galleries and theater groups.
— Bill Dedman
My parents have always been open to me trying new things, whether it's yoga or ballet or tap or jazz or piano or horse riding.
— Sofia Vassilieva
I don't think much of a dance step where the girl looks like she was being carried out of a burning building.
— Frank Hubbard
Ballet is a riddle of means and ends.
— Gelsey Kirkland
This book's like black holes. It really engulfes you whole. — Ana Claudia Antunes
I can remember being very keen to go to drama school at the age of eight, and practising ballet in my bedroom to Queen soundtracks.
— Carmen Ejogo
Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays.
— George Balanchine
Never excuse yourself.
— Henry Ward Beecher
To dance is to give channel to the Creator.
— Ali Abdullah Saleh
Do ballet and play football. Sing and dance. Laugh and cry.
— Michael Skolnik
Training for the ballet, Potter?
— J.K. Rowling
Watching you try to be a smooth manipulator is like watching a moose do ballet. What did you do, read Machiavelli for Dummies? Or
— Elliott James
I tell you, the arts - and especially ballet - the discipline is extraordinary. I was extremely impressed.
— Dwayne Johnson
Ballet is more than a profession - it is a way of life.
— Margot Fonteyn
Americans will be amazed to find ho many of the modern dance steps are relics of the African heritage.
— Paul Robeson
I realize how much ballet gave me, and because of ballet, I'm known as a graceful gymnast.
— Svetlana Boginskaya
The simplest comment on my book came from my ballet teacher. She said, I wish you hadn't made every line funny. It's so depressing.
— Quentin Crisp
You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up.
— Patrick Swayze
True love is like little roses, sweet, fragrant in small doses. — Ana Claudia Antunes
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I was a protege; by the age of 10, I was studying with ballet choreographer Anthony Tudor in a class of adults.
— Judith Jamison
Without dancing you can never attain a perfectly graceful carriage, which is of the highest importance in life.
— Benjamin Disraeli
I think classical ballet dancers dance on pointe because they're simultaneously touching the earth and reaching up to the skies
— Paulo Coelho
Don't hold on to the barre like, 'I might die.' It's just ballet.
— Misty Copeland
Training for the ballet, Potter? yelled Malfoy.
— J.K. Rowling
I'm never going to get married. I'm going to be a ballet-dancer. But don't tell anybody.
— Leo Tolstoy
I want to bring awareness to the lack of diversity in ballet, and feel like that's a large part of my purpose.
— Misty Copeland
Making the ballet really taught me how to get things moving. Ballet dancers don't stand still.
— Guy Maddin
I've danced since I was 5 and went to the School of American Ballet at Lincoln Center at 7.
— Sarah Hay
There's an opera out on the turnpike, there's a ballet being fought out in the alley.
— Bruce Springsteen
Master technique and then forget about it and be natural.
— Anna Pavlova
Baseball is a ballet without music. Drama without words.
— Ernie Harwell
We are constantly revealing ourselves to each other through our movement; learning from and teaching each other without even trying.
— Wendy Whelan
From the age of four, I loved ballet and tap. I was in the school band, the choir, and all my school plays.
— Gugu Mbatha-Raw
With both acting and ballet, often you can't just choose when you do it, whereas a painter can go at his own pace.
— Mia Wasikowska
A ballet of nimble-footed waitresses moved among the tables
— Beth Hoffman
You can't drink on an eight hour flight, pass out, and then go onstage ... well you can, but then you're Spandau Ballet.
— Robert Smith
A brand-new pair of toe shoes presents itself to us as an enemy with a will of its own that must be tamed.
— Toni Bentley
When life takes me on a new journey, I simply remember the smile my first ballet recital put on my face and I move forward.
— Andrea Thompson
What's so wonderful about ballet is that it's mind-driven physicality. It's almost a Greek ideal of body, mind, and form.
— Edward Villella
Most dancers have no awareness of how they look; half of them think they're fat. There is anorexia in the ballet world; there are those things.
— Benjamin Millepied
I know that I'll forever be involved in ballet. This is where my life was meant to be, and I don't see myself straying completely away, ever.
— Misty Copeland
I love ballet because you can see how beautiful the body is.
— Carine Roitfeld
New York. It's home to opera, Broadway, museums, the ballet and orchestra - everything that I love. The most real people in the world live there.
— Kristin Chenoweth
Our animals don't do drugs. Instead, we move them almost daily in a tightly choreographed ballet from pasture spot to pasture spot.
— Joel Salatin
I've won my last four matches by knockout. Out of 30 fights, I've won more than 20 by knockout. I think that a ballet dancer wouldn't win by knockout.
— Sergio Martinez
Hopefully, I'll be a part of ABT, in some way, forever. I think I'll always be a part of ballet and try to push diversity, for as long as I live.
— Misty Copeland
Apparently, I have good feet for ballet.
— Gillian Jacobs
Up until I was about 12, I was a ballet dancer and a basketball player.
— Katherine McNamara
A fine picture is but the image of nature; a finished ballet is nature herself.
— Jean-Georges Noverre