Ballet Quotes · Page 7

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

— Twyla Tharp

I thought 'Out of Africa' would be a beautiful ballet.

— Amy Adams

Finding ballet was like finding this missing piece of myself.

— Misty Copeland

Come and trip it as ye go On the light fantastic toe.

— John Milton

City Ballet remains a great company in perpetual artistic crisis.

— Robert Gottlieb

Don't hold on to the barre like, 'I might die.' It's just ballet.

— Misty Copeland

Ballet is sort of a mystery to me. And I don't want to unravel that mystery.

— Robert Caro

I didn't choose ballet, it was my mum's choice.

— Sergei Polunin

I started taking ballet lessons when I was three and a half and I still take dance classes.

— Oksana Baiul

I can remember being very keen to go to drama school at the age of eight, and practising ballet in my bedroom…

— Carmen Ejogo

During the day I pull on jeans and ballet flats; but I do love getting dressed up, too.

— Leigh Lezark

Our animals don't do drugs. Instead, we move them almost daily in a tightly choreographed ballet from pasture spot to pasture spot.

— Joel Salatin

My mum took me to the ballet at three, and that was the only time I sat still, with jaw open, mesmerised.…

— Emma Rigby

I think that I'm so fortunate to have found classical ballet. It completely changed my life and it shaped the person that…

— Misty Copeland

Some people seem to think that good dancers are born, but all the good dancers I have known are taught or trained..

— Fred Astaire

Muse of the many twinkling feet, whose charms are now extending up from legs to arms.

— Lord Byron

Ballet requires movements which are very unnatural. With every step, you do a circular movement of the hip. You turn out from…

— Darcey Bussell

I take ballet class as often as possible - up to 5 times a week - and try to go to the…

— Amanda Schull

There are no taking days off. There are no distractions. If I had that, I physically wouldn't be capable of going onstage…

— Misty Copeland

“A major assumption that underlies this selection is that it is only within work that is progressive, experimental or avant-garde that staid,…

— Ramsay Burt

When I started thinking seriously about learning the rules of narrative, I thought, 'You've learned the rules of dancing from the ballet;…

— Twyla Tharp

Although we do come from a silent profession, it is important for us to verbalize what we want to say. (As I…

— Suzanne Farrell

I had to learn that slower is faster If you practice every day with patience and correctness, you will get there. It's…

— Edward Villella

What 'War and Peace' is to the novel and 'Hamlet' is to the theater, Swan Lake' is to ballet - that is,…

— Robert Gottlieb

That kind of friendship doesn't just materialize at the end of the rainbow one morning in a soft-focus Hollywood haze. For it…

— Tana French

Let us not compare Edward Snowden's situation with that of Chelsea Manning or Jeremy Hammond, who is also imprisoned in the United…

— Julian Assange

I saw a spider, I didn't scream 'Cause I can belch the alphabet Just double dog dare me And I chose guitar…

— Katy Perry

It is the best of all games for me. It frequently escapes from the pattern of sport and assumes the form of…

— Jimmy Cannon

Some people even think that I'm still just not right for it [ballet]. And I think it's shocking because they hear those…

— Misty Copeland

If you don't feel challenged, it's because you're not doing enough. Ballet should never feel comfortable. Comfortable is lazy! If you're comfortable…

— George Balanchine

I've been trained in dancing and I used to be quite good, though I am a bit rusty right now. But I…

— Brittany Murphy

The ballet. I saw in the fugitive beauty of a dancer's gesture a symbol of life. It was achieved at the cost…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Ballet really taught me so much about the power of movement.

— Karlie Kloss

I started dancing when I was 5 years old. Ballet. Flamenco.

— Julie Newmar

Yeah I had the poof thing before the acting because I did ballet.

— Kelvin Fletcher

Technique is what you fall back on when you run out of inspiration.

— Rudolf Nureyev

Dance is like wine; it matures with every performance.

— Alarmel Valli

I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle. It wasn't mine.

— Rita Rudner

Ballet was just something that I always wanted to do.

— Mary Helen Bowers

Some people are painters, and some are ballet dancers, and I'm a writer.

— Alice Walker