Ballet Quotes · Page 8

The thing about ballet that I never knew about is that it's one of the most excruciating sports that I've ever been…

— Mila Kunis

The abuse of the best things is always detrimental.

— Jean-Georges Noverre

My workout is ballet class and rehearsal - I've never belonged to a gym.

— Yuan Yuan Tan

In dance the hand hath liberty to touch, the eye to gaze, the arm for to embrace.

— George Gascoigne

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

— Robert Gottlieb

I found at a young age that emotions aren't always handled with talking and other emotions. I started ballet, seriously around fourteen,…

— Michael Adam Hamilton

Choreographers tend to treat ballet dancers like kids they can manipulate.

— Sylvie Guillem

I don't try to dance better than anybody but myself.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

I eat healthily, I do ballet and exercise, and I'm toned and tight, but I take up space, and I don't aspire…

— Rachael Stirling

I find that dancers are only well trained in ballet these days.

— Twyla Tharp

I do take class because I still dance, and yes, I do slip into class with the Royal Ballet from time to…

— Deborah Bull

The cat crossed the street daintily, pointing his feet like a ballet dancer, lifting them high as if his feet were too…

— Vera Caspary

I've got used to the fact -​ just about -​ that whatever I do is going to be compared to the other…

— John Lennon

Ballet will speak for itself. About itself.

— George Balanchine

It's a very insular world, ballet. I feel if I had stayed much longer, it would've consumed me. I performed six days…

— Amanda Schull

I danced with the Ballet Russe in Paris when I was 16 and did not need a companion.

— Cyd Charisse

I've been wearing makeup for as long as I can remember. I started by playing with my mom's lipsticks, then in ballet…

— Tommy Dorfman

My proficiency with ballet was on a steep decline the more I skated.

— Tessa Virtue

Classical ballet will never die.

— Ninette de Valois

I always knew I was a bit different from my friends, had too much energy, and suddenly I could get it all…

— Darcey Bussell

Anatoli Tarasov, the guy that created the Soviet style of play, was a visionary. He was a creative thinker. He studied ballet…

— Gabe Polsky

It's weird for minorities even just to buy tickets to the ballet. We feel like it's not a part of our lives…

— Misty Copeland

I spent a whole year in New York without going back to France. And I always came back because my mother was…

— Vincent Cassel

Dancers work and live from the inside. They drive themselves constantly producing a glow that lights not only themselves but audience after…

— Murray Louis

I wear Jordans when I'm in the ring, alright? This isn't ballet, you know?

— Enzo Amore