Ballet Quotes · Page 24

I've always been excited by the strangeness of ballet, but I can't bear it when people just come forward and do a…

— Matthew Bourne

My sister was in ballet growing up. I spent almost the entirety of 7 through 12 backstage at Lincoln Center, just running…

— Timothee Chalamet

I know that I'm talented, and I know that I'm not in American Ballet Theater because I'm black - I'm here because…

— Misty Copeland

When I was younger, people would always say, 'Are you a ballet dancer?' I had that look - one of those skinny…

— Miranda Otto

I've been wearing makeup for as long as I can remember. I started by playing with my mom's lipsticks, then in ballet…

— Tommy Dorfman

I went to the Performing Arts School and studied classical ballet. That attitude is something that's put into your head. You are…

— Carmen Electra

“O wayfarer! Yearn finds quench, not in meadows, seashores or altitude of mountain peaks; but when being becomes dance.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

Ballet is not technique but a way of expression that comes more closely to the inner language of man than any other.

— George Borodin

Nicholas Hytner, who directed Center Stage, is a huge ballet fan. He was completely open, as was Bruce Beresford, to get our…

— Amanda Schull

I used to do ballet all the time, and I do this ballet workout: it is an amazing thing called Barrecore. It…

— Rita Ora

Dancing is an excellent amusement for young people, especially for those of sedentary occupations. Its excellence consists in exciting a cheerfulness of…

— Noah Webster

I was a massive fan of Amy Winehouse growing up. I decided it would be a good idea to become Amy Winehouse…

— Mia Goth

Ballet Hispanico is a mixture of ethnic, ballet, social, jazz - you name it, it's doing it. The company has been going…

— Robert Gottlieb

I had danced with Janet Jackson and P. Diddy so I had done a bunch of hip hop. Really and truly my…

— Jenna Dewan

Fly fishing is the most beautiful way of trying to catch a fish; not the most efficient, just as ballet is the…

— Howell Raines

I push myself hard. I don't like pain, exactly, but as a ballerina, I lived in constant pain. At ballet school in…

— Alicia Vikander

In the world of classical ballet there are only a handful of story ballets, so getting a new one is cause for…

— Karen Kain

At aged eleven, you're learning taking criticism every day and making it a positive thing - otherwise you will never make it…

— Francesca Hayward

I could never make a ballet by wrinkling my brow and concentrating. If you set out deliberately to make a masterpiece, how…

— George Balanchine

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

— Guy Maddin

Ballet is number one, everything else is scheduled in the small windows when I'm not in the studio taking class, rehearsing, on…

— Misty Copeland

I think that every year that the New York City Ballet is alive is worthy of celebration. Because otherwise the terrible thing…

— John Guare

Some Russian ballet master woman said there's no culture in America, but if you look you can find interesting stuff in this…

— Robert Duvall

Somewhere in there the grace of a ballet dancer joins with the strength of an SAS squaddie, the dignity of an ancient…

— Eamon Dunphy

The pointes for girls, I always say, have to be like an elephant's trunk; strong and yet flexible and soft.

— George Balanchine

Cincinnatians support a symphony, an opera, a ballet, museums, many galleries and theater groups.

— Bill Dedman

I used to love tap, that was favourite, and a bit of street dancing. Ballet I tried to avoid.

— James DeGale

I love dancing, actually. My mother taught children's dance, ballet, tap, jazz...I'm very flexible.

— Michael Angarano

There's nothing like the force and challenge of a new ballet to galvanize everyone involved in bringing it to life.

— Karen Kain

I love seeing New York City Ballet from the fourth ring, just seeing the architecture of how these bodies move from above.

— Justin Peck

The highest heels I do are six-inch heels - but mostly only dancers can wear them, since they are used to being…

— Christian Louboutin

I danced in corps de ballet for 11 hours a day. That was the hardest work I have ever done in my…

— Sergei Polunin

New York. It's home to opera, Broadway, museums, the ballet and orchestra - everything that I love. The most real people in…

— Kristin Chenoweth

Physical fears change and shift depending on the role and depending on the mindset I'm in.

— Misty Copeland

I've always been a bit of a poser. I was chucked out of ballet lessons for looking in the mirror.

— Abbey Clancy

I had 10 wonderful years in Spandau Ballet. It was an incredible way to grow up, to hang out with your best…

— Martin Kemp

I've been dancing all my life and studied at Joffrey Ballet when I was 13 and singing all my life.

— Melora Hardin

Don't you think you're quite young?' 'I'm twenty-one,' said Brida. 'If I wanted to start learning ballet, I'd be conseidered too old.

— Paulo Coelho

“When you can be still and still dance, you are a great dancer. When you can move and still be still, you…

— Donna Goddard

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

— Sylvie Guillem