Ballet Quotes · Page 20

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

— Sylvie Guillem

The New York City Ballet is obviously speaking to a whole new generation and bringing it the same wonder and beauty that…

— Robert Caro

I did ballet from the age of five, but what I loved was my gymnastics. I kept the ballet going because of…

— Darcey Bussell

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

— Monica Barbaro

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

— Keke Palmer

The most essential thing in dance discipline is devotion, the steadfast and willing devotion to the labor that makes the classwork not…

— Merce Cunningham

I'd always been one of the best in my gymnastics school, so I transferred to trying to be the best dancer, without…

— Sergei Polunin

Me in high school, I was kind of a loner. I had a handful of friends. I'd eat my lunch in my…

— Olesya Rulin

I did ballet as a child and started again seven years ago. I love that you hear this exquisite music, and for…

— Rachael Stirling

At the time I started in ballet they were dancing 'The Spirit of Champagne' on pointe, in Paris. I thought, 'I don't…

— Martha Graham

The real beauty of it - key to my life was playing key chords on a banjo. For somebody else it may…

— Vince Gill

When we go in the ring we know we're going to get hit. We know we're not the ballet people. But if…

— Kostya Tszyu

I will say a lot of dancers do such beautiful things for their body and then they smoke a cigarette. I've never…

— Elizabeth Berkley

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

— Harold Nicholas

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

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

— George Balanchine

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

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

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

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

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

“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

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

— Michaela Strachan

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

— Amie Kaufman

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

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

— Bruce Springsteen

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 can remember being very keen to go to drama school at the age of eight, and practising ballet in my bedroom…

— Carmen Ejogo

I started taking ballet lessons when I was three and a half and I still take dance classes.

— Oksana Baiul

Some people seem to think that good dancers are born, but all the good dancers I have known are taught or trained..

— Fred Astaire

Muse of the many twinkling feet, whose charms are now extending up from legs to arms.

— Lord Byron