Ballet Quotes · Page 22

I don't really dance for pleasure much." "Uh--so you, uh, usually dance professionally, or what?" Seb asked. "Yeah," said Nick. "The ballet…

— Sarah Rees Brennan

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

I tell you, the arts - and especially ballet - the discipline is extraordinary. I was extremely impressed.

— Dwayne Johnson

I love going to see the theatre whether it's a Broadway play or a Russian ballet company.

— Michael Ealy

It's weird for minorities even just to buy tickets to the ballet. We feel like it's not a part of our lives…

— Misty Copeland

The eternal and uneasy relationship between ballet and modern dance endures, but radically altered in tone and intensity.

— Robert Gottlieb

I was a very rotund child with short hair, and for some reason, I always had black ballet shoes. I was like…

— Felicity Jones

A producer wouldn't think of making a film about ballet dancers without using real dancers, but they will cast actors who have…

— D. B. Sweeney

I always enjoy ballet when you can read the situation very precisely, when I could tell you exactly which sentence that person…

— Francesca Hayward

I went to the International Ballet competition when I was 15 or 16 and that was the first time I competed. I…

— Joan Chen

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

I found at a young age that emotions aren't always handled with talking and other emotions. I started ballet, seriously around fourteen,…

— Michael Adam Hamilton

As a dancer, I know couples that have stayed married but separated to dance on different continents. Dance in general, but ballet…

— Amanda Schull

I skate about 15 to 20 hours a week and also incorporate a lot of off-ice training. I take ballet and Pilates…

— Sasha Cohen

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

— Margo Price

I was born in Toronto and studied with the National Ballet of Canada. I went to school to study dance, slept on…

— Laurieann Gibson

It definitely wasn't cool in junior high, when everyone else is trying out for cheerleading, to have a life consumed by ballet.

— Mary Helen Bowers

I eat healthily, I do ballet and exercise, and I'm toned and tight, but I take up space, and I don't aspire…

— Rachael Stirling

The classical ballet world is so exclusive and small, and a lot of people don't know about it.

— Misty Copeland

Ballet Beautiful has made my pregnancy a joy. I've avoided back pain and swelling by keeping my core strong and body moving.

— Mary Helen Bowers

In terms of withstanding incredible amounts of pain - both physical and emotional - I don't think there's any better training than…

— Julia Jones

Well, that's why ballet is one of the hardest disciplines - you kind of stay childlike, because you never really experience childhood,…

— Sergei Polunin

There might've been wires, but I have this ability to make myself light. Well you know what, in ballet, when you kind…

— Albert Finney

'Petrushka' was not conceived as a children's ballet, even though it involves puppets. We're on the outer limits of what's child-appropriate here.

— John de Lancie

I love ballet. Ballet is its own being. It has its own vocabulary. I feel as if I am in a different…

— Kiernan Shipka

The dance is the mother of the arts. Music and poetry exist in time; painting and architecture in space. But the dance…

— Curt Sachs

“Sometimes in life confusion tends to arise and only dialogue of dance seems to make sense.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

When I miss class for one day, I know it. When I miss class for two days, my teacher knows it. When…

— Rudolf Nureyev

On an ideal Saturday night, I'll go to the New York City Ballet, where my friends play percussion.

— Molly Yeh

Being alive is about playing to win. Being brain dead is when you play not to loose.

— Richard Saunders

When you are confronted with an opera, you have to keep an eye on everything: the musicians, the chorus, the ballet, the…

— Placido Domingo

So I'm studying ballet every day and really training so people will see me as a ballet dancer, which no one's seen…

— Sutton Foster

My parents were passionate about the ballet. They always played ballet music at home.

— Arlene Phillips

I was raised with a lot of classical music. I loved ballet. I was a bun head for 10 years.

— Elisabeth Moss

I think the leotard for me became, after I retired, a sort of a symbol of the confines of still fitting into…

— Wendy Whelan

My mom tried to get me on ballet. 'Walter Payton did it! Walter Payton did it!' I'm just not messing with ballet.

— Le'Veon Bell

Letting go of perfectionism, so ingrained in the nature of a ballet dancer, can be the most difficult thing.

— Anonymous

Ballet targets smaller muscles that you don't often use - instead of working your quads, it works the inside and the back…

— Mary Helen Bowers

Transplanting the ballet to the United States is like trying to raise a palm tree in Dakota.

— Lincoln Kirstein

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