Ballet Quotes · Page 16

Both costume and fashion are about telling a story, except that in a ballet the story has already been written by the…

— Raf Simons

If I see a human body on the stage, I don't see it as an abstraction. I see it as a body.

— Antony Tudor

I was in ballet classes, I took singing lessons, I started taking acting classes as a hobby. When I was younger, I…

— Lexi Underwood

Learning ballet is wonderful for children even if they never become dancers. It is wonderful because it teaches discipline, grace, and manners.

— Anna Paskevska

I always feel that the mark of a good ballet is that when you see it more than once, you get more…

— Justin Peck

When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire.

— Angelina Jolie

Go figure a crazy, mixed-up country where ballet outsells boxing. I wouldn't be surprised if their wrestling was on the level.

— Bob Hope

I was sent to ballet classes when I was a little girl. I wasn't very good, but it's that thing where little…

— Cat Deeley

Capoeira was designed to look like a dance, and it's actually an incredibly effective means of fighting. Fighting is dancing. Look at…

— David Lyons

My mom devised a plan to get me out of the house and gave me the choice between ballet or skating. She…

— Ashley Wagner

I know a lot of choreographers prefer to do abstract dance and not be bothered with a story, but even when I'm…

— Susan Stroman

Since ballet has such a solid classical framework, everything is supposed to be a very specific way, so you learn to look…

— Sonoya Mizuno

My sisters did ballet when we were younger and I remember sitting in the car with my dad and going 'can we…

— Stephanie Gilmore

The noble entitlement bespeaks an élan, a certain type of relationship with your partner. It means formidable technique not displayed lightly. The…

— Kevin McKenzie

I grew up learning ballet and then I took up contemporary as I got older. I probably thought I was going to…

— Elizabeth Debicki

I started ballet in my early 20s. I studied for about ten years. Ballet is probably the one of the hardest things…

— Herschel Walker

Coco Chanel was always doing things with ballet, so it is a tradition clashing fashion and ballet.

— Carine Roitfeld

“Dance is that delicacy of life radiating every particle of our existence with happiness.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

Put a man and a girl on stage and there is already a story; a man and two girls, there's already a…

— George Balanchine

It's hard to be the one that stands out when, you know, in a ballet company, you're trying to create unison and…

— Misty Copeland

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 do take class because I still dance, and yes, I do slip into class with the Royal Ballet from time to…

— Deborah Bull

You can usually tell how healthy a ballet company is by the degree of your interest in the middle ranks of the…

— Robert Gottlieb

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

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

— Felicity Jones

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

— Robert Gottlieb

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

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

— Michael Ealy

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

— Dwayne Johnson

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

You...are...a...fridge...with wings,' Fang ground out, punching an Eraser hard with every word. 'We're...freaking...ballet...dancers.

— James Patterson

I had a really creative teacher at primary school. He used to get us doing things such as singing Spandau Ballet in…

— Dominic Cooper

I had classical training at London's Royal Ballet School, and my first job was with the Semperoper Dresden ballet company in Germany.

— Sonoya Mizuno

I was so comfortable with my ballet power, my dancer power, that to have a voice, the comfort with having a voice,…

— Wendy Whelan

“If you opened the dictionary and searched for the meaning of a Goddess, you would find the reflection of a dancing lady.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

I grew up doing tap, jazz, and ballet, so I understand rhythm and movement and performing.

— Victoria Arlen

I studied dance for about 15 years, various disciplines, with classical ballet as my primary.

— Dana Loesch

I love fashion. It's actually - after ballet - my favourite thing since I was little.

— Francesca Hayward

I had been a ballet dancer and never could make a living, and just being so excited that I got to, all…

— Lea Thompson