Ballet Quotes: top 100 famous quotes about Ballet

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

The focus of our family life was homework and what was for dinner; getting to ballet rehearsal and getting my brother to soccer. — Lily Rabe

So he was frustrated with her. Most people rolled their eyes when they got frustrated. Alaric made dolphins do ballet. — Alyssa Day

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

It [ballet] projects a fragile kind of strength and a certain inflexible precision. — Ayn Rand

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

I thought 'Out of Africa' would be a beautiful ballet. — Amy Adams

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

I have done the company lifestyle for 16 years, and ballet has changed. — Carla Korbes

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

At the ballet, you really feel like you're in the presence of something outside the rest of your life. Higher than the rest of your life. — Robert Caro

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

Muse of the many twinkling feet, whose charms are now extending up from legs to arms. — Lord Byron

One of the most beautiful sights in dance is American Ballet Theatre in full flight. — Clive Barnes

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

I wanted so badly to study ballet, but it was really all about wearing the tutu. — Elle Macpherson

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

The hardest thing that I'll ever do, is ballet. Because you are either good or bad. — Elle Fanning

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

Dance till the stars come down from the rafters
Dance, Dance, Dance 'till you drop. — W. H. Auden

It [ballet] is a perfect medium for the expression of spiritual love. — Ayn Rand

I was a protege; by the age of 10, I was studying with ballet choreographer Anthony Tudor in a class of adults. — Judith Jamison

When I'm doing well, it's like I'm in a nice little ballet. Everything is going slow all around me. It's very peaceful. — Barry Zito

I've studied dance since I was very young, and I continue to study ballet. — Sarah Gadon

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

To change the world, you must first change yourself. And baby, that's hard enough. — Alonzo King

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 think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner. — John Guare

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

The first dance performance I saw was Joffrey Ballet doing 'Billboards' to Prince. — Kyle Abraham

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

One day a man came into the bar and ordered a pint and a pousse-cafe, adding "for our lass" in case I thought he was a ballet dancer or something. — Harry Pearson

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

To many a youth and many a maid, dancing in the chequer'd shade. — John Milton

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

All ballet galas are unbearable, but they're unbearable in different ways. — Robert Gottlieb

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

In terms of withstanding incredible amounts of pain - both physical and emotional - I don't think there's any better training than ballet. — Julia Jones

I deliberately made an effort not to become an expert on the ballet. — Robert Caro

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 take class. I'm always ballet ready. I'm ready to go - got my tights and my shoes. — Joan Chen

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

Ballet aficionados are just sports fans in formal wear. — S.L. Price

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

Ballet-girls have a bad reputation, which is in most cases well deserved. — Henry Mayhew

Apparently, I have good feet for ballet. — Gillian Jacobs

Dancing is creating a sculpture that is visible only for a moment. — Erol Ozan

Up until I was about 12, I was a ballet dancer and a basketball player. — Katherine McNamara

Ballet is sort of a mystery to me. And I don't want to unravel that mystery. — Robert Caro

A fine picture is but the image of nature; a finished ballet is nature herself. — Jean-Georges Noverre