Ballet Quotes · Page 8

Beauty, like male ballet dancers, makes some men afraid.

— Mordecai Richler

At the Paris Opera Ballet, they were always making choices for me.

— Sylvie Guillem

I was very happy that I was as normal as possible before I went into serious dance.

— Suzanne Farrell

I gave up ballet when I was four because I was so shy.

— Emma Weymouth

“Temujin watched Borte's ballet, her elegance on the fulcrum of her hips.”

— Bryn Hammond

It is not a question of who dances but of who or what does not dance.

— Ruth St. Denis

I want to have daughter, and if I do, I want to make sure she learns ballet.

— G-Dragon

I was a ballet dancer growing up and that's what I was convinced I would be.

— Candice Swanepoel

“Sometimes in life confusion tends to arise and only dialogue of dance seems to make sense.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

When I miss class for one day, I know it. When I miss class for two days, my teacher knows it. When…

— Rudolf Nureyev

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

— Molly Yeh

I love ballet. Ballet is its own being. It has its own vocabulary. I feel as if I am in a different…

— Kiernan Shipka

'Petrushka' was not conceived as a children's ballet, even though it involves puppets. We're on the outer limits of what's child-appropriate here.

— John de Lancie

The dance is the mother of the arts. Music and poetry exist in time; painting and architecture in space. But the dance…

— Curt Sachs

Well, that's why ballet is one of the hardest disciplines - you kind of stay childlike, because you never really experience childhood,…

— Sergei Polunin

There might've been wires, but I have this ability to make myself light. Well you know what, in ballet, when you kind…

— Albert Finney

The Royal Ballet is the best paid company, but the dancers get nothing. The stage crew get paid three times more than…

— Sergei Polunin

Dance training can't be separate from life training. Everything that comes into our lives is training. The qualities we admire in great…

— Alonzo King

I started dancing when I was five, and I trained intensively as a competitive dancer up until the end of high school.…

— Jacob Artist

I actually came to New York when I was 12 and did ballet school for a little while. I was being groomed…

— Mary Elizabeth Winstead

Fitness has been a part of all my life since I was a young child. I started dancing ballet and doing yoga…

— Kelly Gale

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

— Mia Wasikowska

I wasn't a ballet baby. My first dance class was in an outdoor pavilion when I was three. It was called 'creative…

— Carrie Ann Inaba

Dancing for the length of time that I did, it centered me in such a way to be really in tune with…

— Zoe Saldana

One can be a great artist without being a great technician. There have been many famous ballet stars who did not have…

— Fernando Bujones

The defects born of habit are innumerable. I see every child occupied in some way in disarranging and disfiguring his physique; some…

— Jean-Georges Noverre

The available worlds looked pretty grim. They had little to offer him because he had little to offer them. He had been…

— Douglas Adams

I like graceful and elegant partnering that gives an illusion of ease instead of emphasizing difficulty. I don't want to make something…

— Justin Peck

Prayer is like practicing the piano or ballet or writing: you have to bring your body for a very long time, in…

— Heather King

“You dance really well.” “I took ballet lessons.” She tilted her head back to search his face, certain he was joking. “You…

— Jaci Burton

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

If one had to define one essential gift with which a dancer needs to be endowed, there might be a rush of…

— Lincoln Kirstein

I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner.

— John Guare

Men wearing pants so tight that you can tell what religion they are.

— Robin Williams

You cannot create genius. All you can do is nurture it.

— Ninette de Valois

Ballet in the air... Twin butterflies until, twice white They Meet, they mate

— Anonymous

Im not a nostalgia freak, I never listen to old Spandau Ballet stuff.

— Tony Hadley

I used to dance when I was younger - ballet and modern dance.

— Nastassja Kinski

“Life is an affair of mystery; shared with companions of music, dance and poetry.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

All ballet galas are unbearable, but they're unbearable in different ways.

— Robert Gottlieb