The Ballet Quotes
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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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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 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've danced since I was 5 and went to the School of American Ballet at Lincoln Center at 7.
— Sarah Hay
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
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
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
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
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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
