Ballet Quotes · Page 9

Baseball is an art! A drama! A ballet without music! Let us give it a Greek chorus!

— Deborah Wiles

To change the world, you must first change yourself. And baby, that's hard enough.

— Alonzo King

A genius is a talented person who does his homework.

— Thomas A. Edison

Ballet can be grueling, for sure, but it gives you a certain discipline.

— Margaret Qualley

I took ballet dancing forever, and there was a natural transition into acting.

— Judy Greer

I toured the Middle Eastern countries with the ballet.

— Leslie Caron

I want to be known as a delicate, Black dancer who does classical ballet.

— Michaela DePrince

I always wanted to act and sing, but my first love was ballet.

— Jennifer Ellison

At 7, I was at the barre and dancing at folk festivals. Then I was a student with the ballet school of…

— Maria Karnilova

If mutual fund directors are independent, then I'm the lead character in the Bolshoi Ballet.

— Charlie Munger

The ballet embodies the notes of music. And sometimes you almost feel like you can see the notes dance up there on…

— Robert Caro

I've always loved dancing. As soon as there is good music, I've got to get up and dance. I was passionate about…

— Cherie Lunghi

Ballet was this thing that just felt so innate in me, like I was meant to be doing this.

— Misty Copeland

There are three steps you have to complete to become a professional dancer: learn to dance, learn to perform, and learn how…

— David Gere

It is a fact that all the ballet's fundamental dance steps are derived from the folk dances of Western Europe.

— Ninette de Valois

Americans will be amazed to find ho many of the modern dance steps are relics of the African heritage.

— Paul Robeson

I'd like to be able to get more girls to play guitar. I think with a girl playing electric guitar, sometimes it's…

— Orianthi

I'm so fair that I didn't go in the sun as a child. When all my friends were on the beach, I…

— Miranda Otto

Long experience has taught me that the crux of my fortunes is whether I can radiate good will toward my audience. There…

— Howard Thurston

Ballet is pure and demands that you serve something larger than yourself, whether it be beauty or art, or a combination of…

— Peter Martins

When I was young, I couldn't think about ballet because I had to focus on my own field. But once you secure…

— Marina Abramovic

I played soccer and baseball, and that's all. But what if I had been the best at like, ballet? And I didn't…

— Spencer Pratt

I dreamt of becoming a ballet dancer. I studied with the Royal Academy of London for 11 years, and that did not…

— Diane Kruger

Clearly, the pleasures wines afford are transitory - but so are those of the ballet, or of a musical performance. Wine is…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The Opera ghost really existed. He was not, as was long believed, a creature of the imagination of the artists, the superstition…

— Gaston Leroux

I've usually never felt comfortable shooting until things were kind of claustrophobic, but ballet dancers need a lot of space, so the…

— Guy Maddin

So many people report to be contemporary dancers, and they're not. They are sort of jazz dancers that feel like they're throwing…

— Nigel Lythgoe

I am not an educated person. I didn't come up through a ballet company. I came up through burlesque. So I have…

— Bob Fosse

I always wanted to be an actor. I was one of those lucky kids - or cursed kids - who always knew…

— Tim Matheson

I've been trained in dancing and I used to be quite good, though I am a bit rusty right now. But I…

— Brittany Murphy

If you don't feel challenged, it's because you're not doing enough. Ballet should never feel comfortable. Comfortable is lazy! If you're comfortable…

— George Balanchine

Some people even think that I'm still just not right for it [ballet]. And I think it's shocking because they hear those…

— Misty Copeland

At the Ballet' from 'A Chorus Line' - that's my go-to, singing-in-the-car song.

— Rachel Zegler

“You're a fridge with wings. We're freaking ballet dancers! -Fang”

— James Patterson

I never went to a ballet until I was 45 years old. I don't know why.

— Robert Caro

Ballet-girls have a bad reputation, which is in most cases well deserved

— Henry Mayhew

Ballet is good, because it makes you stand up tall.

— Carine Roitfeld

In fact, ballet companies did not exist in the Midwest when I was a child.

— Suzanne Farrell

I find that dancers are only well trained in ballet these days.

— Twyla Tharp

I thought 'Out of Africa' would be a beautiful ballet.

— Amy Adams