Ballet Quotes · Page 10

I go to bed really late - if I just sleep I won't have a life outside ballet.

— Sergei Polunin

“You...are...a...fridge...with wings. We're...freaking...ballet...dancers.”

— James Patterson

Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible

— Agnes de Mille

“never sit in the first row at the ballet.”

— john d macdonald

I want to share the ballet world with everyone.

— Misty Copeland

“if ballet were easier, it would be called football.”

— ANONOMOUS

'The Nutcracker' is the ballet that keeps on giving.

— David H. Koch

Always the question for dancers is: Can we fly?

— Jean-Christophe Maillot

“It seemed like an ordinary day, but little did I know that this wasn’t going to be a normal ballet class.”

— Sarah Todd Hammer

I just don't do much social media. No, it is more important to strike a balance between ballet and real life.

— Yuan Yuan Tan

One must shy away from questionable undertakings, even when they bear a high-sounding name.

— Albert Einstein

I learned how to communicate and articulate myself from ballet. It's just insane to me, when they don't think of that as…

— Misty Copeland

Hopefully, I'll be a part of ABT, in some way, forever. I think I'll always be a part of ballet and try…

— Misty Copeland

I was from Washington, D.C., and then I came to New York and got the scholarship for the ballet.

— Chita Rivera

I'm very flower-like. I love classical music. I go to ballet and I cry. There's nothing so beautiful.

— Michael Gambon

My mom and dad would take me all over. One night we'd be at the Apollo watching James Brown, and then I'd…

— Lenny Kravitz

In swimming at my level it's about control of the small movements. A good ballet dancer floats across the stage, the best…

— Alexander Dale Oen

Not very many companies go through Hawaii on their way to anywhere. San Francisco Ballet was the only company I remember, and…

— Joan Chen

I went to 'The Nutcracker' every year with my grandma and aunt. Then, in my early teen years, I thought I wanted…

— Jinkx Monsoon

Ballet became this escape for me. I feel like I was on my own a lot. I was searching for stability, so…

— Misty Copeland

I love acting, but that's also kind of what I love about ballet - the acting. So, obviously, film is like an…

— Francesca Hayward

I had never picked up a basketball before. I went through a grueling audition process. It was almost as if I was…

— Sanaa Lathan

Dad is a skilled athlete and runs his own football school for kids. While football is his entire life and he encouraged…

— Montaigne

As a professional ballet dancer, I have to accept that weekends are about work. The notion of a leisurely break with all…

— Sylvie Guillem

Do you know what I've learned? That although ecstasy is the ability to stand outside yourself, dance is a way of rising…

— Anonymous

“Alright. Let's get realistic now. You know and I know that the function of that number was just to provide some sort…

— Frank Zappa

I didn't go to normal high school, I went to full-time ballet school, so I led very regimented, disciplined years. The classes…

— Emilie De Ravin

“Miss Dearheart gave him a very brief look, and shook her head. There was movement under the table, a small fleshy kind…

— Terry Pratchett

In order that our art may arrive at the degree of the sublime which I demand and hope for, it is imperative…

— Jean-Georges Noverre

And in a small house five miles away was a man who held my mud-encrusted charm bracelet out to his wife. Look…

— Alice Sebold

I just stay healthy all year round. I try to feel good in my skin. For me, I have trained in ballet…

— Angelina Jolie

Tennis is more than just a sport. It's an art, like the ballet. Or like a performance in the theater. When I…

— Bill Tilden

I want to show that black people can dance ballet as well as white people.

— Michaela DePrince

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

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

To handle paint the way Pollock did, you need the muscularity of a ballet dancer.

— Pat Steir

I eat a big breakfast and then go off to an hour and a half of strong ballet class.

— Cyd Charisse

The domain of the ballet dancer is not earth but air.

— Lincoln Kirstein

“She who is a dancer can only sway the silk of her hair like the summer breeze.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

Bob's work gleaned from hoofing, from vaudeville, from ballet.

— Ann Reinking

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

— Sylvie Guillem