Ballet Quotes · Page 24

A producer wouldn't think of making a film about ballet dancers without using real dancers, but they will cast actors who have…

— D. B. Sweeney

It definitely wasn't cool in junior high, when everyone else is trying out for cheerleading, to have a life consumed by ballet.

— Mary Helen Bowers

I tell you, the arts - and especially ballet - the discipline is extraordinary. I was extremely impressed.

— Dwayne Johnson

I'd rather be a guy that can build a house or fix a car than be able to walk like a ballet…

— Travis Fimmel

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 love going to see the theatre whether it's a Broadway play or a Russian ballet company.

— Michael Ealy

The eternal and uneasy relationship between ballet and modern dance endures, but radically altered in tone and intensity.

— Robert Gottlieb

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

— Deborah Bull

In order to dance professionally, you have to start at a young age. No matter what, your muscle structure and your bones…

— Amanda Schull

“I feel his arm Lightly Over me. He takes one of my outstretched hands. Draws it beneath my stomach. "One more time..."…

— Stasia Ward Kehoe

The discipline that ballet requires is obsessive. And only the ones who dedicate their whole lives are able to make it. Your…

— Penelope Cruz

I have learned a great deal from the theatrical side of Covent Garden. The Paris Opera Ballet is more concerned with technique.…

— Sylvie Guillem

My favorite workouts are the ones that don't feel like I'm working out! So, dance is a big one. Another is any…

— Sarah Shahi

“Music and Dancing, not only give great pleasure but have the honour of depending on Mathematics, for they consist in number and…

— Charles Sorel

While I was in Astana, a ballet master from St. Petersburg's Mariinsky Theatre staged a performance of 'Giselle' in the opera hall.…

— Keith Gessen

I get into the studio and I try to make visible what's in the choreographer's mind. Sometimes a choreographer wants you to…

— Angel Corella

I don't really dance for pleasure much." "Uh--so you, uh, usually dance professionally, or what?" Seb asked. "Yeah," said Nick. "The ballet…

— Sarah Rees Brennan

It's hard to be the one that stands out when, you know, in a ballet company, you're trying to create unison and…

— Misty Copeland

You can usually tell how healthy a ballet company is by the degree of your interest in the middle ranks of the…

— Robert Gottlieb

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

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

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

— Durga Chew-Bose

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

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

— Helen Baxendale

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

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

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