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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 always been excited by the strangeness of ballet, but I can't bear it when people just come forward and do a turn in the air for no reason. — Matthew Bourne

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

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

Dancing is a tough career, but I'm glad I spent it at the Royal Ballet. — Deborah Bull

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

In order to dance well, nothing is so important as the turning outwards of the thigh; and nothing is so natural to men as the contrary position. — Jean-Georges Noverre

In dance the hand hath liberty to touch, the eye to gaze, the arm for to embrace. — George Gascoigne

In fact, ballet companies did not exist in the Midwest when I was a child. — Suzanne Farrell

In the Thirties, when I was in New York, I did the first surrealistic ballet in a show of mine. — Vincente Minnelli

At age 10, I was better at ballet than I think I will ever be at any physical activity for the rest of my life. — Katie Findlay

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

The cat crossed the street daintily, pointing his feet like a ballet dancer, lifting them high as if his feet were too good for the pavement. — Vera Caspary

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. — Sarah Hay

I love going to see the theatre whether it's a Broadway play or a Russian ballet company. — Michael Ealy

I am both proud and honored to be on the Board of Directors for the Texas Ballet Theater. — Janine Turner

I wear short shorts. After 10 years of strenuous ballet, it's the least my legs can do for me. — Solange Knowles

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

I'd say the only time I ever get nervous is around great ballet dancers or people I really admire. — Dita Von Teese

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

You increase muscle bulk by training against resistance. For example, weights. And in ballet, this isn't the case. — Deborah Bull

The greater the fool the better the dancer. — Theodore Hook

We usually spend one hour per week on ballet but Marta Karolyi has us do a lot of compulsory floor in the morning practice. — Kristie Phillips

The purpose of art is higher than art. What we are really interested in are masterpieces of humanity. — Alonzo King

I can see why they named that ballet the Nutcracker. It's gotta hurt having 'em crushed in something that tight. — Mark A. Cooper

I hated the ballet, but I liked performing. I did 20 shows, and I couldn't get the smile off my face. — Ansel Elgort

Ballet is the fairies baseball. — Oscar Levant

The artistic path is a fearless occupation. — Alonzo King

All the New York City Ballet does is hit beautiful home runs. — John Guare

The domain of the ballet dancer is not earth but air. — Lincoln Kirstein

I started doing theater at the age of six. I also took tap and jazz lessons. I refused to take ballet, which is one of my biggest regrets to this day. — Brandon Uranowitz

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

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

However, the moral center of New York City, I believe, is the New York City Ballet. — John Guare

At least in my performances, the audience has become so diverse in a way that I don't think ballet has ever experienced. — Misty Copeland

I toured the Middle Eastern countries with the ballet. — Leslie Caron

A toe shoe is as eccentric as the ballerina who wears it: their marriage is a commitment. — Toni Bentley

I've always been in love with Melbourne. When I was 12, I was taken into the city by my grandmother to go to the ballet for the first time. — Kerry Greenwood

The classical ballet world is so exclusive and small, and a lot of people don't know about it. — Misty Copeland

I was very much a tomboy. I just couldn't do the pink ballet tutus. — Ashley Wagner

When you can't follow a ballet's action, you can always read the program notes. — Robert Gottlieb

I don't feel like my life is that of a superstar! Every day I wake up, I take the train, I go to my ballet class. My everyday life is pretty normal. — Misty Copeland

Do not brood. It makes the moment you are living in unavailable for learning and life. — Suzanne Farrell

In the world of classical ballet there are only a handful of story ballets, so getting a new one is cause for excitement. — Karen Kain

All she had ahead of her was the cold water, the slow ballet. — Lauren Groff

The ballet needs to tell its own story in such a way it can be received without having to be translated into language. — Twyla Tharp

I love musicals; I love the ballet, opera, the circus. It's all performance to me. — Ian McKellen

The ballet embodies the notes of music. And sometimes you almost feel like you can see the notes dance up there on the stage. — Robert Caro

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

Ballet is quite unnatural on the joints. My body is just worn. My joints are 10 years older than me. — Darcey Bussell

Ballet is not technique but a way of expression that comes more closely to the inner language of man than any other. — George Sava

And what would be great numbers in a Broadway show are now on stage of the New York City Ballet. — John Guare

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

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

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

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

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

I love ballet because you can see how beautiful the body is. — Carine Roitfeld

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

There's an opera out on the turnpike, there's a ballet being fought out in the alley. — Bruce Springsteen

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

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

Training for the ballet, Potter? yelled Malfoy. — J.K. Rowling

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

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

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

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

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

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

I have a ballet barre in my gym. I turn the music up so loud that the walls are pulsating, and I go for it for an hour. — Catherine Zeta-Jones

The best physique I ever had was when I was ballet dancing. — Manu Bennett

During the day I pull on jeans and ballet flats; but I do love getting dressed up, too. — Leigh Lezark

When I was a child, I went to stage school three times a week in the evenings - singing, ballet, tap, modern and acting, and I loved it. — Michelle Dockery

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 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

To dance is to give channel to the Creator. — Ali Abdullah Saleh

Training for the ballet, Potter? — J.K. Rowling

Ballet is merely a new rationalization of society's instinctive movement towards self-destruction. A dance of death for the Gadarene swine. — Eric Ambler

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

Americans will be amazed to find ho many of the modern dance steps are relics of the African heritage. — Paul Robeson

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

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

I tell you, the arts - and especially ballet - the discipline is extraordinary. I was extremely impressed. — Dwayne Johnson

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

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