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He dances well to whom Fortune pipes.
— John Ray
Noncooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent, so is the ballet.
— Julia Child
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 think that ballet is very good for the body. It's very similar to yoga, because you have to hold a position.
— Carine Roitfeld
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
I was a ballet dancer growing up and that's what I was convinced I would be.
— Candice Swanepoel
If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts.
— Ritchie Blackmore
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
I love going to see the theatre whether it's a Broadway play or a Russian ballet company.
— Michael Ealy
Ballet teaches you how to hold yourself.
— Joseph Altuzarra
I've been dancing my entire life. Jazz, hip hop, ballet. And then there's tap dancing. I love to tap.
— Emily VanCamp
I wear short shorts. After 10 years of strenuous ballet, it's the least my legs can do for me.
— Solange Knowles
I love dancing, actually. My mother taught children's dance, ballet, tap, jazz ... I'm very flexible.
— Michael Angarano
I'm very flower-like. I love classical music. I go to ballet and I cry. There's nothing so beautiful.
— Michael Gambon
You know, ballet might be too formal of a title for the type of dance I do, but I love to dance.
— Jeff Bridges
I still love to see the ballet. And I love to boogie.
— Alicia Vikander
When I was nine, I started doing ballet. That's when I knew that I was down to keep doing it.
— Ansel Elgort
In France, ballet is on TV ... It's on the eight-o'clock news. It's a cool thing to be a dancer.
— Benjamin Millepied
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 can see why they named that ballet the Nutcracker. It's gotta hurt having 'em crushed in something that tight.
— Mark A. Cooper
Lots of people make the stage and it can seem very violent and over the top, but it's not really. It's always a kind of gentle ballet.
— Steven Morrissey
My earliest memory is of sitting at Mum's dance school, watching her teach a ballet class.
— Sarah Parish
I learned how to communicate and articulate myself from ballet. It's just insane to me, when they don't think of that as a part of our education.
— Misty Copeland
It's very easy to become selfish and narrow-minded and see ballet as the only thing in life, but there's lots more.
— Darcey Bussell
What is true of ballet is no less true of the other lively arts. Change is built into their natures. You watch a performance, and then ... it's gone.
— Terry Teachout
Ballet is not just movement, not simply abstract. It's something beautiful. Sometimes there's this feeling in the movement that makes me want to cry.
— Nina Ananiashvili
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
True love is like little roses, sweet, fragrant in small doses. — Ana Claudia Antunes
I love ballet, and it's a little boring for me to go to the gym because I'm used to the dancing discipline - it's really hard but much more fun.
— Penelope Cruz
My mother and my father always had me in ballet and dance, and I sang in a girl's group.
— Jessica White
It's time to write our own story.
— Misty Copeland
It's a well-known fact. All women are clinically insane, but especially ballet dancers. Psycho. extremely psycho. Trust me.
— Marisa De Los Santos
One of the few things in dance to match the Royal Ballet's curtain calls is the Royal Ballet's dancing.
— Clive Barnes
So I'm studying ballet every day and really training so people will see me as a ballet dancer, which no one's seen before.
— Sutton Foster
Line cooking done well is a beautiful thing to watch. It's a high-speed collaboration resembling, at its best, ballet or modern dance.
— Anthony Bourdain
It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style.
— Quentin Crisp
There's nothing like the force and challenge of a new ballet to galvanize everyone involved in bringing it to life.
— Karen Kain
It's weird for minorities even just to buy tickets to the ballet. We feel like it's not a part of our lives and we're not a part of that world.
— Misty Copeland
I went to the Performing Arts School and studied classical ballet. That attitude is something that's put into your head. You are never thin enough.
— Carmen Electra
It's dancing! It's magical, actually. A kind of slowish magic. Like writing with your feet.
— Katherine Rundell
Master technique and then forget about it and be natural.
— Anna Pavlova
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
Without dancing you can never attain a perfectly graceful carriage, which is of the highest importance in life.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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
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
This book's like black holes. It really engulfes you whole. — Ana Claudia Antunes
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
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
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
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'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
