Ballet Quotes · Page 19

I think that I'm so fortunate to have found classical ballet. It completely changed my life and it shaped the person that…

— Misty Copeland

During the day I pull on jeans and ballet flats; but I do love getting dressed up, too.

— Leigh Lezark

Badminton is like ballet dancing. It requires a lot of control, strength, mind play and measured movement

— Aamir Khan

The bulk of life on Earth lives in a peaceful place where the temperature is stable. There's hunting going on, but it's…

— Graham Hawkes

“They fan out across the room, swift and surgical, the steps of this brutal ballet known by heart.”

— Amie Kaufman

On Saturdays and after school I'd do classes in tap, ballet, acrobatics... everything.

— Michaela Strachan

“Before I knew it, I was racing across the highway. For the first time in my life, I didn’t know what to…

— Sarah Todd Hammer

There's an opera out on the turnpike, there's a ballet being fought out in the alley.

— Bruce Springsteen

I was a daughterless mother. I had nowhere to put the things a mother places on her daughter. The nail polish I…

— Ann Hood

I have a lot of intention behind what I put out there. The reason all this stuff I do works together, the…

— Ben Sollee

Ballet is always about the realm of possibilities, the realm of what the human body can do, what the human spirit can…

— John Guare

I've got used to the fact -​ just about -​ that whatever I do is going to be compared to the other…

— John Lennon

“It was the former ballet star Robert Helpmann who famously observed the problem with dancing naked: when you stop on the music,…

— Alastair Macaulay

“I made the sympathetic face, and the interested face, and even the impressed face. I did not say, 'In the name of…

— Meg Howrey

“Every child has known God, Not the God of names, Not the God of don'ts, Not the God who ever does Anything…

— Hafiz

The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body. I don't leap and jump anymore.…

— Martha Graham

I think Hong Kong's ballet audience is very sophisticated in the sense that they are able to find the beauty in good…

— Yuan Yuan Tan

I really wanted to make it as a ballet dancer to make my mom proud. But it didnt happen.

— Tracy Anderson

When I'm doing well, it's like I'm in a nice little ballet. Everything is going slow all around me. It's very peaceful.

— Barry Zito

With both acting and ballet, often you can't just choose when you do it, whereas a painter can go at his own…

— Mia Wasikowska

My mum was a costume designer and costume supervisor in the theater and, especially, the ballet. But that was before I was…

— George MacKay

Anyone who has a child today should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he'll escape.

— W. H. Auden

We dance to difference genres such as krumping, ballet and hip-hop, together with invited foreign choreographers who are well-known internationally.

— Jennie

I don't think much of a dance step where the girl looks like she was being carried out of a burning building.

— Anonymous

I trained in every form of dance - started as a tap dancer when I was a kid, then contemporary, ballet, ballroom,…

— Nigel Lythgoe

Between the ages of 10-14, I did ballet, modern and tap. So I may have a few dancing bones in my body,…

— John Whaite

Everything seems to be going faster and faster. It's really harder to create something that endures. The New York City Ballet has…

— Robert Caro

I went to an all-boys school, where I played rugby, so ballet wasn't the coolest thing to do.

— Tom Holland

I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.

— Anton Chekhov

I'm the first one out on the dance floor. In college I had to take jazz, ballet and tap dancing, but, before…

— Miles Teller

I can dance. I like hip hop and stuff and jazz movements, but I'm horrible in ballet. I tried.

— Keke Palmer

I come from ballet, and so I know a lot about intensity around one's own physical appearance. I feel quite familiar with…

— Monica Barbaro

The simplest comment on my book came from my ballet teacher. She said, "I wish you hadn't made every line funny. It's…

— Quentin Crisp

I copied my brother. He was a natural dancer. Graceful. People always asked did we study ballet. We never did.

— Harold Nicholas

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.

— George Balanchine

I grew up dancing, and my ballet teacher was literally a drill sergeant; she was so strict and so scary. And it…

— Kate Hudson

When movement becomes ecstatic, then this is dance. When the movement is so total there is no ego, then it is dance.

— Rajneesh

My mother and my father always had me in ballet and dance, and I sang in a girl's group.

— Jessica White

I love New York. I was in New York at the age of 13, at the School of American Ballet, walking around…

— Teri Polo

Ballet is hard enough when you go with it; when you have to force your body to do things, it is so…

— Sylvie Guillem