Ballet Quotes · Page 42

Our first record with Spandau Ballet went to number five - I guess we were offering something different and it appealed.

— Martin Kemp

I was used to having a job - ballet was my job, and I felt like I needed something artistic to focus…

— Margaret Qualley

I didn't know if I could act, but I knew I could be a great ballet dancer, and Balanchine put out the…

— Jacques d'Amboise

Some people think that movements, such as the movements in ballet, are a higher cultural expression, whereas some are just dirt. I…

— Yoko Ono

I was a ballet dancer and that kind of bled into musical theater. I was constantly in rehearsal for one thing or…

— Jennifer Garner

Always the question for dancers is: Can we fly?

— Jean-Christophe Maillot

Ballet dancers really know how to enter a room.

— Thelma Schoonmaker

Let us not compare Edward Snowden's situation with that of Chelsea Manning or Jeremy Hammond, who is also imprisoned in the United…

— Julian Assange

There are no taking days off. There are no distractions. If I had that, I physically wouldn't be capable of going onstage…

— Misty Copeland

Once, the arts were opera, ballet, classical music, and everything else deemed highbrow.

— Melvyn Bragg

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

— Victoria Arlen

Ballet for a rainy day Silent film of melting miracle play Dancing out there through my window To the backdrop of a…

— Andy Partridge

I think that, like any kind of career, there are many different people involved in the ballet world.

— Amanda Schull

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

— Fred Astaire

I knew I wanted to be a ballet dancer, but what kind, I wasn't sure. My two dream companies had been New…

— Wendy Whelan

Most people think of ballet as children in little tutus. They don't know it is sweat, blood and tears as well!

— Anonymous

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 want to take advantage of my youth and pursue ballet professionally.

— Michaela DePrince

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

Finding ballet was like finding this missing piece of myself.

— Misty Copeland

As I got older, I started to do it more and more, and I wanted to learn all of the different types.…

— Jillian Hervey

I have learned a great deal from the theatrical side of Covent Garden. The Paris Opera Ballet is more concerned with technique.…

— Sylvie Guillem

He [Gene Kelly] once told me dancing was a man's game, as much of a sport as baseball itself. And he made…

— Liza Minnelli

When I was a little girl I wanted to be a dancer. I studied ballet.

— Nico

And in between the two, in between the sky and the sea, were all the winds. And there were all the nights…

— Yann Martel