Ballet Quotes · Page 10

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

— Henry Mayhew

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

— Robert Caro

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

— James Patterson

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

— Rachel Zegler

I toured the Middle Eastern countries with the ballet.

— Leslie Caron

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

— Jennifer Ellison

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

— Michaela DePrince

I love musicals; I love the ballet, opera, the circus. It's all performance to me.

— Ian Mckellen

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

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

— Anonymous

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

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

— Wendy Whelan

Please send me your last pair of shoes, worn out with dancing as you mentioned in your letter, so that I might…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I've been very physical my whole life. I've done a lot of ballet, fencing and karate, and everything.

— Ashley Bell

I grew up in Honolulu. It's not the ballet cultural mecca by any stretch of the imagination. People are much more familiar…

— Joan Chen

I was serious about ballet for a long time, but my mom got me into tap and jazz and modern and hip-hop,…

— Greta Gerwig

At the ballet classes I took when I first came to New York, I would see great dancers like Cynthia Gregory and…

— Twyla Tharp

When working with classical musicians, it is important to be clear as possible in the score about what my intentions are. Because…

— Bryce Dessner

It always takes two. There's the speaker and the listener, you and the audience. You've worked long hours and it comes down…

— Gillian Murphy

He [Gene Kelly] once told me dancing was a man's game, as much of a sport as baseball itself. And he made…

— Liza Minnelli

When I was five years old, I told my parents that I wanted to take ballet. So, ballet was the focus of…

— Chandra West

My school uniform in primary school was yellow, North Ryde Public School. When I did ballet, you wear a particular ribbon depending…

— Emma Watkins

Sabine gestured to him with the half-eaten crust. "I like him. Not sure why he's wasting his time with the pole dancer,…

— Rachel Vincent

I spent a whole year in New York without going back to France. And I always came back because my mother was…

— Vincent Cassel

“Classic Ballet, Keep away, keep building your creaky fairy castles, keep cloning clones and meaningless manners, hang on to your beanstalk ballerinas…

— Paul Taylor

Just as a child, before I ever knew what ballet was, there was something in me where I was always searching for…

— Misty Copeland

Like most citizens of popular and international urban centres, I don't take advantage of the cultural opportunities. Perhaps this comes from growing…

— Sloane Crosley

And in between the two, in between the sky and the sea, were all the winds. And there were all the nights…

— Yann Martel

Well, that's why I really love Diego Della Valle, because he's crazy. Instead of going out to find a top business school…

— Ines de La Fressange

The paintings that laughed at him merrily from the walls were like nothing he had ever seen or dreamed of. Gone were…

— Irving Stone

“Nijinsky in 'Le Spectre de la rose' was like nothing I'd seen before. He danced a fifteen-minute solo and it passed like…

— Kate Morton

When you are dancing with your partner, for that two and a half minutes, you are in love with each other. You're…

— Frankie Manning

I know that dancers, especially ballet dancers, can't do it forever.

— Kelli Berglund

Sing like there's nobody listening, And live like it's heaven on earth.

— William Watson Purkey

I love dance; that's a big part of my life - like, ballet specifically.

— Kerris Dorsey

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

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

— Suzanne Farrell

In dance the hand hath liberty to touch, the eye to gaze, the arm for to embrace.

— George Gascoigne

Of course I was always mad about the ballet russe, mad about it!

— Diana Vreeland