Ballet Quotes · Page 22

The deep art... That's the part that has to be guarded like a miser would his money... Like a dope addict would…

— Alonzo King

One of the few things in dance to match the Royal Ballet's curtain calls is the Royal Ballet's dancing.

— Clive Barnes

Be. Good. To yourself, to other people, to everything you do. It's a norm of life by which people should try to…

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

I think that ballet is very good for the body. It's very similar to yoga, because you have to hold a position.

— Carine Roitfeld

I used to love ballet and I did it really, really intensely. But it came so much about achieving physical perfection, which…

— Mia Wasikowska

I have a personal trainer. But I tried boxing; I tried ballet. I tried everything to see what works best for my…

— Barbara Palvin

I don't feel like my life is that of a superstar! Every day I wake up, I take the train, I go…

— Misty Copeland

I'd make all schoolchildren take ballet lessons every morning. And I'd ban advertising aimed at children.

— Helen Baxendale

Every girl - and boy, if you so choose - should take some ballet. Because ballet gives you grace. It gives you…

— Stevie Nicks

When you are on stage in front of an audience, you want to engage the entire crowd. If a thousand people are…

— Suzanne Farrell

Ballet is something for which you need so much control and composure. And there's an element to acting that is the complete…

— Sonoya Mizuno

The reason we wear pink tights in ballet is that the color is supposed to complete the line, but if you have…

— Michaela DePrince

“The very essence of ballet is poetic, deriving from dreams rather than from reality. About the only reason for its existence is…

— Théophile Gautier

It's like the time capsule with everything in it. Or like the seed that when you plant it, becomes the enormous tree…

— George Balanchine

You cannot help but watch ballet dancers like Precious Adams without realizing that a classical ballerina can be black. However, talking about…

— Michaela DePrince

Ballet was exactly what I was searching for, but my environment definitely made me the dancer and the person that I am…

— Misty Copeland

Ballet class is like Life Lessons 101. You learn some of life's most important lessons here that you will carry with you forever.

— Joanne H Morscher

I started with ballet, and once I started to really like it, I got into more - I did jazz and tap,…

— Maddie Ziegler

The ballet world is so competitive, and for no reason. It's not a sport. It's an art. There's no winner.

— Sergei Polunin

Sometimes during a ballet I'll look around and see all these rows of intent faces, concentrating on this beautiful thing up on…

— Robert Caro

Each time a dancer moves devoutly or a composer faithfully searches the silence for the veiled melodies, eternity is engaged.

— Maya Angelou

It is shameful that dancing should renounce the empire it might assert over the mind and only endeavor to please the sight.

— Jean-Georges Noverre

I'd quit ballet school, which I thought was going to be my path, but my gut instinct told me to do something…

— Alicia Vikander

“The whole Esther Williams of it all. The ostrich ballet. Like pirouetting feather dusters; their paddle feet in fourth position.”

— Durga Chew-Bose

My family was artistic and encouraged me to express myself. I was a show-off, so they took me to ballet class.

— Sofia Boutella

I think most dancers would agree that the art of ballet chooses the dancer, not the other way around.

— Kevin McKenzie

“grace that her training had made natural for her. Did she ever think of ballet, now? Madame Aleksander wondered.”

— Helen MacInnes

Baseball is beautiful…the supreme performing art. It combines in perfect harmony the magnificent features of ballet, drama, art, and ingenuity.

— Bowie Kuhn

I'm not fond of the idea of doing ballet for ballet's sake, because dancers get exploited and they're not paid well. They…

— Sergei Polunin

Well, I took ballet for many, many years, so my whole childhood really revolved around dance class. I grew up around dance;…

— Amy Sherman-Palladino

I was very serious about ballet until the age of 12, at which point my body changed, and it wasn't quite right.

— Greta Gerwig

I go to ballet five days a week. I would love to go to a fashion show one day, because I never…

— Elle Fanning

My training and ballet background definitely gives me the competitive edge on the ice.

— Nathan Chen

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

— Bill Tilden

The heart of the classical repertory is the Tchaikovsky-Petipa 'Sleeping Beauty,' and no ballet is harder to get right.

— Robert Gottlieb

My parents have always been open to me trying new things, whether it's yoga or ballet or tap or jazz or piano…

— Sofia Vassilieva

I grew up without any money, but the one thing that we did was sit up in the gods to watch the…

— Arlene Phillips

When I was nine, I started doing ballet. That's when I knew that I was down to keep doing it.

— Ansel Elgort

My mum sent me to ballet from the age of five, not because I was that into it but because I had…

— Darcey Bussell

People tend to look at dancers like we are these little jewels, little cardboard cut outs, and yet we have blood and…

— Susan Jaffe