Ballet Quotes

“Ballet is the faeries' baseball”

— Oscar Levant

Movements are as eloquent as words.

— Isadora Duncan

He dances well to whom Fortune pipes.

— Anonymous

Dancing cheek to cheek.

— Irving Berlin

Classical ballet will never die.

— Ninette de Valois

Dancers are the athletes of God.

— Albert Einstein

Dance, dance, dance till you drop.

— W. H. Auden

Ballet teaches you how to hold yourself.

— Joseph Altuzarra

I wanted to be a ballerina. I studied ballet for 19 years.

— Stella Soleil

“Don't breathe to survive; dance and feel alive.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

Excellent! I will still be in time for the ballet!

— Jose Raul Capablanca

I did community theater in Georgia and called myself a ballet dancer.

— Laura Slade Wiggins

The hardest thing that I'll ever do, is ballet. Because you are either good or bad.

— Elle Fanning

Ballet is one form which I really want Indians to practice it.

— Remo D'Souza

The greater the fool the better the dancer.

— Theodore Hook

With classical ballet you are literally injuring yourself.

— Marina Abramovic

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

— Miranda Otto

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

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 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

My family were so poor. My mum would clean houses to maybe get me to a ballet class, bless her.

— Claudia Jessie

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'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

I took several years of dance lessons that included ballet, tap and jazz. They helped a great deal with body control, balance,…

— Lynn Swann

So much is made about the beginnings of ballet careers, the rosebud, and then once the petals and leaves start falling off,…

— Wendy Whelan

I think people are people and, if their feelings are truthful, they can connect. It doesn't matter if you're an aging, 50-something…

— Darren Aronofsky

She drove me to ballet class...and she took me to every audition. She'd be proud of me if I was still sitting…

— Elisabeth Moss

It's hard with ballet because your aesthetic really is important. It's different from acting and from film. Nobody wants to watch somebody…

— Amanda Schull

It is sweet to dance to violins When love and life are fair: To dance to flutes, to dance to lutes Is…

— Oscar Wilde

Yo, dumbass. What do you think she’d be doing with them? Giving them ballet lessons? (Darling) Tell me again why I can’t…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

I am very obsessed with ballet now because it is a very difficult sport and a beautiful one because it is not…

— Carine Roitfeld

The thing about ballet that I never knew about is that it's one of the most excruciating sports that I've ever been…

— Mila Kunis

It is the best of all games for me. It frequently escapes from the pattern of sport and assumes the form of…

— Jimmy Cannon

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

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

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

The ballet. I saw in the fugitive beauty of a dancer's gesture a symbol of life. It was achieved at the cost…

— W. Somerset Maugham

I haven't seen so much tippy-toeing around since the last time I went to the ballet. When members of the arts community…

— Anna Quindlen

I saw a spider-I didn't scream 'cause I can belch the alphabet-Just double dog dare me! And I chose guitar over ballet…

— Katy Perry

“Did any of you ever see Doctor Tetrazzini perform? I say perform advisedly because his operations were performances. He would start by…

— William Burroughs