Ballet Quotes · Page 15

If the dance is right, there shouldn't be a single superfluous movement.

— Fred Astaire

There was a period of time when I studied ballet a lot when I was growing up.

— India Eisley

I took ballet when I was eight, like a lot of other people.

— Jessica Rothe

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

— W. H. Auden

I do after-school ballet and also hip-hop and jazz.

— Elle Fanning

I think that taking ballet is one of the best things a girl can do. Period.

— Karlie Kloss

When I left The Royal Ballet, I didn't have anybody to talk to.

— Sergei Polunin

To brisk notes in cadence beating, glance their many-twinkling feet.

— Thomas Gray

Between the ages of 10-14, I did ballet, modern and tap. So I may have a few dancing bones in my body,…

— John Whaite

Everything seems to be going faster and faster. It's really harder to create something that endures. The New York City Ballet has…

— Robert Caro

I trained in every form of dance - started as a tap dancer when I was a kid, then contemporary, ballet, ballroom,…

— Nigel Lythgoe

I don't think much of a dance step where the girl looks like she was being carried out of a burning building.

— Anonymous

We dance to difference genres such as krumping, ballet and hip-hop, together with invited foreign choreographers who are well-known internationally.

— Jennie

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

My mum was a costume designer and costume supervisor in the theater and, especially, the ballet. But that was before I was…

— George MacKay

With both acting and ballet, often you can't just choose when you do it, whereas a painter can go at his own…

— Mia Wasikowska

My mother was the influence on me - my father was absent. He was a diamond dealer; he was doing wonderful things…

— Maira Kalman

I wanted to be a dancer from when I was about nine or something like that and started ballet. I used to…

— Mia Wasikowska

Since nothing appears to me to give Children so much becoming Confidence and Behavior, and so raise them to the conversation of…

— John Locke

Dancing allows me to explore myself in so many ways, to learn about my limitations and strengths, my ability to cope with…

— Andrew Asnes

Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don't even look at one another. They are just a lot…

— Agnes de Mille

In England, ballet is kind of closed. They are opening up a little bit, but it was always something not for the…

— Sergei Polunin

I didn't study dance. I had some ballet lessons because I needed it for posture and for my arms, mostly. My skating…

— Dorothy Hamill

Call me twinkle toes. Honestly, in my past, one of the physically hardest classes that I have ever taken was ballet. I…

— Bryan Cranston

I've learned ballet for seven years and Kathak and belly dancing for some time.

— Nidhhi Agerwal

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.

— George Balanchine

I copied my brother. He was a natural dancer. Graceful. People always asked did we study ballet. We never did.

— Harold Nicholas

The simplest comment on my book came from my ballet teacher. She said, "I wish you hadn't made every line funny. It's…

— Quentin Crisp

I come from ballet, and so I know a lot about intensity around one's own physical appearance. I feel quite familiar with…

— Monica Barbaro

I can dance. I like hip hop and stuff and jazz movements, but I'm horrible in ballet. I tried.

— Keke Palmer

I'm the first one out on the dance floor. In college I had to take jazz, ballet and tap dancing, but, before…

— Miles Teller

I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.

— Anton Chekhov

I went to an all-boys school, where I played rugby, so ballet wasn't the coolest thing to do.

— Tom Holland

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

— Leigh Lezark

I think that I'm so fortunate to have found classical ballet. It completely changed my life and it shaped the person that…

— Misty Copeland

My mum took me to the ballet at three, and that was the only time I sat still, with jaw open, mesmerised.…

— Emma Rigby

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

Some people seem to think that good dancers are born, but all the good dancers I have known are taught or trained..

— Fred Astaire

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

— Lord Byron

I started taking ballet lessons when I was three and a half and I still take dance classes.

— Oksana Baiul