Ballet dance Quotes · Page 3

I know that dancers, especially ballet dancers, can't do it forever.

— Kelli Berglund

Sing like there's nobody listening, And live like it's heaven on earth.

— William Watson Purkey

I was a ballet dancer and that kind of bled into musical theater. I was constantly in rehearsal for one thing or…

— Jennifer Garner

Anyone who has a child today should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he'll escape.

— W. H. Auden

Dance is your pulse, your heartbeat, your breathing. It's the rhythym of your life.

— Jacques d'Amboise

I really wanted to make it as a ballet dancer to make my mom proud. But it didnt happen.

— Tracy Anderson

I had been a ballet dancer and never could make a living, and just being so excited that I got to, all…

— Lea Thompson

I'd rather be a guy that can build a house or fix a car than be able to walk like a ballet…

— Travis Fimmel

The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit…

— Isadora Duncan

In swimming at my level it's about control of the small movements. A good ballet dancer floats across the stage, the best…

— Alexander Dale Oen

I went to 'The Nutcracker' every year with my grandma and aunt. Then, in my early teen years, I thought I wanted…

— Jinkx Monsoon

I came from the musical stage. My first show was '110 In The Shade.' I started as a ballet dancer and then…

— Lesley Ann Warren

I trained as a ballet dancer till I was 18, so I would really like to get back to it. I'd love…

— Jessica Brown Findlay

Tap was against everything I had learned to do. I was pulled up as a ballet dancer, and I wasn't used to…

— Cyd Charisse

I taught and studied dance in college, and for over a decade, I thought that would be my career: tap dancer, ballet…

— Margo Price

She trained as a ballet dancer yet she was an iron fist in a velvet glove. My younger brother Luca and I…

— Sean Hepburn Ferrer

In order to dance professionally, you have to start at a young age. No matter what, your muscle structure and your bones…

— Joan Chen

That kind of friendship doesn't just materialize at the end of the rainbow one morning in a soft-focus Hollywood haze. For it…

— Tana French

Fonteyn was our first proper British ballerina, and from the moment I started dancing, her image engulfed me. In my first year…

— Darcey Bussell

I was a ballet dancer. I did other kinds of dance but ballet was my great love. But then it became clear,…

— Greta Gerwig

The average parent may, for example, plant an artist or fertilize a ballet dancer and end up with a certified public accountant.…

— Ellen Goodman

“Did any of you ever see Doctor Tetrazzini perform? I say perform advisedly because his operations were performances. He would start by…

— William Burroughs

I've usually never felt comfortable shooting until things were kind of claustrophobic, but ballet dancers need a lot of space, so the…

— Guy Maddin

You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to…

— Merce Cunningham

I think most dancers would agree that the art of ballet chooses the dancer, not the other way around.

— Kevin McKenzie

There are times when the simple dignity of movementcan fulfill the function of a volume of words.

— Doris Humphrey

For ballet dancers, style is about melding personal expression with physical form.

— Mary Helen Bowers

Dance is an art that imprints on the soul. It is with you every moment, it expresses itself in everything you do.

— Shirley MacLaine

I was a ballet dancer growing up and that's what I was convinced I would be.

— Candice Swanepoel

When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire.

— Angelina Jolie

Being a dark black ballet dancer, there's a lot of pressure on us. I feel like I have to work ten times…

— Michaela DePrince

I grew up in San Francisco, and I trained as a ballet dancer until college.

— Chloe Benjamin

Dance till the stars come down from the rafters Dance, Dance, Dance 'till you drop.

— W. H. Auden

Technical perfection is insufficient. It is an orphan without the true soul of the dancer.

— Sylvie Guillem

I've always been a figure skater and ballet dancer. I love physical comedy, and any chance that I get to do that...…

— Allison Janney

I did community theater in Georgia and called myself a ballet dancer.

— Laura Slade Wiggins

I wanted to be a ballet dancer. I was bad - I'm not very coordinated. But I always wished I could have…

— Gia Coppola

Making the ballet really taught me how to get things moving. Ballet dancers don't stand still.

— Guy Maddin

If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts.

— Ritchie Blackmore

It's what I always wanted to do, to show the laughter, the fun, the joy of dance.

— Martha Graham