I need a big wave to really excel. The smaller stuff is a bit like...ballet for me. — Laird Hamilton Copy Share Image
Ballet I love for about five minutes. Then I want to see a comic come out. — Fred Willard Copy Share Image
Since I was a child I've loved going to the opera, theatre and ballet. — Christian Lacroix Copy Share Image
I've always been a figure skater and ballet dancer. I love physical comedy, and any chance that I get to do that...… — Allison Janney Copy Share Image
The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener. — George Balanchine Copy Share Image
One of the most beautiful sights in dance is American Ballet Theatre in full flight. — Clive Barnes Copy Share Image
Most dancers have no awareness of how they look; half of them think they're fat. There is anorexia in the ballet world;… — Benjamin Millepied Copy Share Image
On with the dance! let joy be unconfin'd No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the Glowing Hours… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Ballet is not just movement, not simply abstract. It's something beautiful. Sometimes there's this feeling in the movement that makes me want… — Nina Ananiashvili Copy Share Image
My mother never learned English, but in Russia, the greatest thing was to give a child to the arts. And so they… — Maria Karnilova Copy Share Image
A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet. I'm beginning to think that walls are very unhealthy… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Slashing its way to the finish line, 'Black Swan' is the first ballet movie for highbrow horror fans for whom ballet itself… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
If a boxer ever went as crazy as Nijinsky all the wowsers in the world would be screaming 'punch-drunk.' Well, who hit… — A. J. Liebling Copy Share Image
I have ballet class every other day for two hours. And for 'Six Feet Under', last week there was a sequence where… — Michelle Trachtenberg Copy Share Image
What I find funny are peoples' blind spots. That's the funniest thing about anybody - when they just don't realize who they… — Sam Richardson Copy Share Image
I cannot avoid condemning all those who, from self-conceit have the pretension to imitate great artists of the past. If their powers… — Jean-Georges Noverre Copy Share Image
The first time the Kirov ballet was seen in America was on Sept. 11, 1961. The ballet was 'Swan Lake.' The ballerina… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
The funny thing about writing is that whether you're doing well or doing it poorly, it looks the exact same. That's actually… — John Green Copy Share Image
Tolstoy may be right about happy and unhappy families, but in ballet, it works the opposite way: All good ballets are different… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Flawless . . . Tightly choreographed . . . Shipstead gains entry into exclusive worlds and trains her opera glasses on private… — Maureen Corrigan Copy Share Image
I feel like people used to leave their homes and go to their local theatre, and they used to watch ballet dancers… — Laura Benanti Copy Share Image
Success comes from having a fulfilling experience and being inside the moment of that experience. Success does not come in retrospect or… — Tommy Tune Copy Share Image
“We break off into the streets, repairing the cobblestones with our brisk allegro. The townsfolk step aside in awe as my allongés… — Kiana Krystle Copy Share Image
At our theaters we only see feeble copies of the copies that have proceeded them, renounce that slavish routine which keeps your… — Jean-Georges Noverre Copy Share Image
Basketball is at its best when you have athletes in space making plays. It's the same for soccer, you have great athletes… — Shane Battier Copy Share Image
A dancer, more than any other human being, dies two deaths: the first, the physical when the powerfully trained body will no… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
Yeah, unfortunately [ films like Miss Julie are a dying breed]. And that is sad, because we need these. Like we need… — Liv Ullmann Copy Share Image
I wear Jordans when I'm in the ring, alright? This isn't ballet, you know? — Enzo Amore Copy Share Image
![“Yeah, unfortunately [ films like Miss Julie are a dying breed]. And that is sad, because we need these. Like we need books, we need classical music, we need ballet, we need opera, to remind us really of who we are and why we are, and we need in movie houses - even to be in a movie - where you sit…” quote by Liv Ullmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/dfd/liv-ullmann-12443_ballet_yeah-unfortunately-films-like-miss-julie_2371618.jpg)
