Ballet Quotes · Page 21

My parents have always been open to me trying new things, whether it's yoga or ballet or tap or jazz or piano…

— Sofia Vassilieva

I grew up without any money, but the one thing that we did was sit up in the gods to watch the…

— Arlene Phillips

The heart of the classical repertory is the Tchaikovsky-Petipa 'Sleeping Beauty,' and no ballet is harder to get right.

— Robert Gottlieb

My mum sent me to ballet from the age of five, not because I was that into it but because I had…

— Darcey Bussell

I was surrounded by classical music, art and ballet all these things. But they also had a football field and it was…

— Carlos Carvalhal

Ballet is not just my profession, it is my life ... It is horrible for me to think that one day it…

— Svetlana Zakharova

People tend to look at dancers like we are these little jewels, little cardboard cut outs, and yet we have blood and…

— Susan Jaffe

I knew I wanted to be a ballet dancer, but what kind, I wasn't sure. My two dream companies had been New…

— Wendy Whelan

People often say to me - how clever you are! How brilliant to be able to go from ballet to theatre as…

— Robert Helpmann

I was embarrassed that I even wanted to become an actress because coming from L.A., with two older sisters in the business…

— Elizabeth Olsen

And then he danced,-all foreigners excel the serious Angels in the eloquence of pantomime;-he danced, I say, right well, with emphasis, and…

— Lord Byron

Before a show, I usually give myself two-and-a-half hours to get ready. I prepare my shoes first. New ballet pumps can sound…

— Darcey Bussell

I was so invested in ballet, and it was my entire life. And then it was realizing that I didn't want it…

— Margaret Qualley

I started taking ballet lessons when I was 4, and I was performing in ballet companies when I was 10, and I…

— Rita Rudner

We moved from the suburbs to L.A. and I picked up break dancing when I was 10. I joined a dance crew…

— Doja Cat

I was a ballerina for a good 12 years. When I was 15 I had to stop. It wasn't a choice, it…

— Kiesza

My family was artistic and encouraged me to express myself. I was a show-off, so they took me to ballet class.

— Sofia Boutella

Baseball is beautiful…the supreme performing art. It combines in perfect harmony the magnificent features of ballet, drama, art, and ingenuity.

— Bowie Kuhn

“grace that her training had made natural for her. Did she ever think of ballet, now? Madame Aleksander wondered.”

— Helen MacInnes

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

— Kevin McKenzie

Well, I took ballet for many, many years, so my whole childhood really revolved around dance class. I grew up around dance;…

— Amy Sherman-Palladino

I'm not fond of the idea of doing ballet for ballet's sake, because dancers get exploited and they're not paid well. They…

— Sergei Polunin

I go to ballet five days a week. I would love to go to a fashion show one day, because I never…

— Elle Fanning

I was very serious about ballet until the age of 12, at which point my body changed, and it wasn't quite right.

— Greta Gerwig

My training and ballet background definitely gives me the competitive edge on the ice.

— Nathan Chen

I studied dance for about 15 years, various disciplines, with classical ballet as my primary.

— Dana Loesch

I grew up doing tap, jazz, and ballet, so I understand rhythm and movement and performing.

— Victoria Arlen

“If you opened the dictionary and searched for the meaning of a Goddess, you would find the reflection of a dancing lady.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

I was so comfortable with my ballet power, my dancer power, that to have a voice, the comfort with having a voice,…

— Wendy Whelan

I had classical training at London's Royal Ballet School, and my first job was with the Semperoper Dresden ballet company in Germany.

— Sonoya Mizuno

I had a really creative teacher at primary school. He used to get us doing things such as singing Spandau Ballet in…

— Dominic Cooper

You...are...a...fridge...with wings,' Fang ground out, punching an Eraser hard with every word. 'We're...freaking...ballet...dancers.

— James Patterson

Sports men and women need hip replacements. It was all those years of classical ballet and forcing turn-outs. It can be quite…

— Craig Revel Horwood

Ballet is like any other art form in that we all start out knowing nothing about it.

— Robert Gottlieb

In ballet, I felt that no matter how good I was, if I didn't have the right body type or if I…

— Mary Elizabeth Winstead

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 love fashion. It's actually - after ballet - my favourite thing since I was little.

— Francesca Hayward

You can usually tell how healthy a ballet company is by the degree of your interest in the middle ranks of the…

— Robert Gottlieb

I do take class because I still dance, and yes, I do slip into class with the Royal Ballet from time to…

— Deborah Bull

It's hard to be the one that stands out when, you know, in a ballet company, you're trying to create unison and…

— Misty Copeland