Ballet Quotes · Page 31

I used to get so comfortable running the hurdles, I was just like a ballet dancer going out there and going through…

— Rod Milburn

“DANCE – Defeat All Negativity (via) Creative Expression.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

My family didn't have very much money, so ballet wasn't even on my radar; I just found it randomly when I was…

— Misty Copeland

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 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

I had some ballet training but didn't like it. It was like a game to me.

— Fred Astaire

When I was playing college football, they would take the football team to a ballet school. We would learn to do tour…

— Gary Busey

Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance

— T. S. Eliot

At first I didn't understand what [Thelonious Monk] was doing, but I went back again, and what I can say about Monk…

— Randy Weston

I feel like people used to leave their homes and go to their local theatre, and they used to watch ballet dancers…

— Laura Benanti

Ballet is more than a profession - it is a way of life.

— Margot Fonteyn

American ballet... is ultimately an evolutionary art form, requiring many voices to creatively carry forward.

— Justin Peck

I did think of becoming a ballet dancer at one point. I had a girlfriend who was teaching in the ballet school.…

— Bernard Cribbins

'Swan Lake' is the most difficult thing to portray for a female ballet dancer; it really requires such specific qualities of articulation,…

— Benjamin Millepied

If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts.

— Ritchie Blackmore

Everything has come to me without my having to look for it. I signed with Metro because someone thought I had talent,…

— Cyd Charisse

A fine picture is but the image of nature; a finished ballet is nature herself.

— Jean-Georges Noverre

People who leave Washington do so by way of the box... ballet or coffin.

— Anonymous

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

— Jose Raul Capablanca

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

And in a small house five miles away was a man who held my mud-encrusted charm bracelet out to his wife. Look…

— Alice Sebold

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

— Ian Mckellen

Dance is like wine; it matures with every performance.

— Alarmel Valli

The moment the curtain rose on that first ballet, I knew something wonderful and new had come into my life. I can…

— Robert Caro

I loved doing ballet. I trained for two years.

— Tom Holland