Ballet Quotes · Page 40

I think most dancers would agree that the art of ballet chooses the dancer, not the other way around.

— Kevin McKenzie

There comes a moment in a young artist's life when he knows he has to bring something to the stage from within…

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

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

— James Patterson

On an ideal Saturday night, I'll go to the New York City Ballet, where my friends play percussion.

— Molly Yeh

I fell asleep during some ballet once.

— Lenny Henry

Ballet can be grueling, for sure, but it gives you a certain discipline.

— Margaret Qualley

I think it's particularly stupid that filmmakers have traditionally said, 'Yeah, I like baseball, but the movie's not going to be about…

— D. B. Sweeney

Some Russian ballet master woman said there's no culture in America, but if you look you can find interesting stuff in this…

— Robert Duvall

Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

— Charles Baudelaire

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

— Robert Gottlieb

Our animals don't do drugs. Instead, we move them almost daily in a tightly choreographed ballet from pasture spot to pasture spot.

— Joel Salatin

Ballet is not technique but a way of expression that comes more closely to the inner language of man than any other.

— George Borodin

My first ballet class was on a basketball court. I'm in my gym clothes and my socks trying to do this thing…

— Misty Copeland

I started as a hoofer and all-round chorus girl. I did my first ballet lesson when I was three, then trained as…

— Caroline Quentin

I love ballet because you can see how beautiful the body is.

— Carine Roitfeld

I got the part [in Into the Forest], I started taking ballet again to try to regain my strength back. I actually…

— Evan Rachel Wood

Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible

— Agnes de Mille

Some people even think that I'm still just not right for it [ballet]. And I think it's shocking because they hear those…

— Misty Copeland

The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul. The true dance is an expression of serenity; it is controlled…

— Isadora Duncan

They danced by the light of the moon.

— Edward Lear

As an adult, I took ballet classes three times a week, and I believed it gave me better posture, a stronger body,…

— Ann Hood

Ballet can be hard on your joints, and when you're on a movie set doing take after take, it can become really…

— Mary Helen Bowers

Ballet has really helped me in every acting role. You have to be very disciplined, you have to be able to control…

— Mia Wasikowska

If I didn't have kids, I would be at the theater or the ballet every single night of my life.

— Sarah Jessica Parker

After I finished 'Center Stage,' I went back to San Francisco, and I danced for seven seasons with the San Francisco Ballet.

— Amanda Schull