Ballet Quotes · Page 18

Ballet is not technique, not a way of doing things, but a means of expression that comes perhaps more closely to the…

— Anonymous

You never advance without losing something en passant... you lose it because you're paying so much attention to the new thing.

— Ninette de Valois

My parents always had a Christmas tree in the house and I was put in ballet at a very young age. So…

— Randy Rainbow

I had to do a tango with Raft and I learned to dance in ballet shoes with my knees bent.

— Marie Windsor

Ballet is the body rising. Ballet is ceremonial and hieratic. Its disdain for the commonplace material world is the source of its…

— Camille Paglia

I can state that I created a ballet company of which everyone said: St. Petersburg has the greatest ballet in all Europe.

— Marius Petipa

When I stopped doing ballet, I started training in the pool. I would do my barre exercises in the water, because that…

— Summer Glau

To me, boxing is like ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other.

— Anonymous

The world loves a clone and a good knock-off. It cheats the artist... In the obsession for technical wizardry, people disappear; and…

— Alonzo King

When I was 8, I began to study ballet. In seventh grade, my mother took me into New York to study at…

— Dianne Wiest

The muscles that are used in Ballet Beautiful are similar to those used in classic ballet. They're also muscles that don't get…

— Mary Helen Bowers

I've trained in dance for most of my life, but ballet was the thing I left behind the earliest because they felt…

— Susan Kelechi Watson

I've learned that there are many people out there who want to feel powerful and strong on their own terms, who want…

— Mary Helen Bowers

Ballet found me. I was discovered by a teacher in middle school. I always danced, my whole life. I never had any…

— Misty Copeland

My parents have always given me whatever I wanted. Took me to the ballet, the opera, museum exhibitions. I was always surrounded…

— Bar Paly

Dad worked in a warehouse when I was little and I didn't see him for three years as he was doing all…

— Jennifer Ellison

My earliest memory is of sitting at Mum's dance school, watching her teach a ballet class.

— Sarah Parish

Ballet Hispanico is far from Irish, and, though it has strong dancers, its Spanishness has always left me unconvinced.

— Robert Gottlieb

I think that, like any kind of career, there are many different people involved in the ballet world.

— Amanda Schull

The particular ballet was not so important as the fact that I was physically healthy, and capable of getting out there and…

— Suzanne Farrell

Does the New York City Ballet affect other places? Yeah, it lets people know they should come to New York.

— John Guare

The New York City Ballet is obviously speaking to a whole new generation and bringing it the same wonder and beauty that…

— Robert Caro

I did ballet from the age of five, but what I loved was my gymnastics. I kept the ballet going because of…

— Darcey Bussell

Ballet is hard enough when you go with it; when you have to force your body to do things, it is so…

— Sylvie Guillem

I love New York. I was in New York at the age of 13, at the School of American Ballet, walking around…

— Teri Polo

My mother and my father always had me in ballet and dance, and I sang in a girl's group.

— Jessica White

When movement becomes ecstatic, then this is dance. When the movement is so total there is no ego, then it is dance.

— Rajneesh

I grew up dancing, and my ballet teacher was literally a drill sergeant; she was so strict and so scary. And it…

— Kate Hudson

“When the doctors came in a little while later saying they thought they knew my diagnosis, I was afraid to know.”

— Sarah Todd Hammer

My mom and dad would take me all over. One night we'd be at the Apollo watching James Brown, and then I'd…

— Lenny Kravitz

I'm very flower-like. I love classical music. I go to ballet and I cry. There's nothing so beautiful.

— Michael Gambon

“Caution not spirit, let it roam wild; for in that natural state dance embraces divine frequency.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

As a kid, I had a lot of energy; but the ballet lessons made me calm - this pleased my mother.

— Penelope Cruz

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

— Vincente Minnelli

I just don't do much social media. No, it is more important to strike a balance between ballet and real life.

— Yuan Yuan Tan

“It seemed like an ordinary day, but little did I know that this wasn’t going to be a normal ballet class.”

— Sarah Todd Hammer

You can do anything you want, even if you are being told negative things.stay strong and find motivation

— Misty Copeland

One must shy away from questionable undertakings, even when they bear a high-sounding name.

— Albert Einstein

I was from Washington, D.C., and then I came to New York and got the scholarship for the ballet.

— Chita Rivera

Hopefully, I'll be a part of ABT, in some way, forever. I think I'll always be a part of ballet and try…

— Misty Copeland