Ballet Quotes · Page 9

The problem is not making up the steps but deciding which ones to keep.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

You should have seen me at 14, with braces and glasses, gangly and doing ballet!

— Margot Robbie

Let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once!

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Make dance the mission every moment seeks to accomplish.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

I definitely don't feel like I'm watching ballet during 'Raze.'

— Zoe Bell

I do piano, violin, guitar, basketball, gymnastics, ballet.

— Selah Louise Marley

I loved doing ballet. I trained for two years.

— Tom Holland

When you can't follow a ballet's action, you can always read the program notes.

— Robert Gottlieb

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.

— George Balanchine

I copied my brother. He was a natural dancer. Graceful. People always asked did we study ballet. We never did.

— Harold Nicholas

The simplest comment on my book came from my ballet teacher. She said, "I wish you hadn't made every line funny. It's…

— Quentin Crisp

I come from ballet, and so I know a lot about intensity around one's own physical appearance. I feel quite familiar with…

— Monica Barbaro

I can dance. I like hip hop and stuff and jazz movements, but I'm horrible in ballet. I tried.

— Keke Palmer

I'm the first one out on the dance floor. In college I had to take jazz, ballet and tap dancing, but, before…

— Miles Teller

I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.

— Anton Chekhov

I went to an all-boys school, where I played rugby, so ballet wasn't the coolest thing to do.

— Tom Holland

City Ballet has to develop choreographers of stature and a new approach to coaching before everything we value about it fades away…

— Robert Gottlieb

I didn't care too much for ballet, because you had to be more disciplined, and you sort of looked like everyone else.…

— Suzanne Farrell

One of the first things I created was music for the Paris opera's ballet troupe. That was the first time that electronic…

— Jean-Michel Jarre

Figure skating has been a great influence for me. I took dance at the School of American Ballet, which helped my own…

— Vera Wang

Call me twinkle toes. Honestly, in my past, one of the physically hardest classes that I have ever taken was ballet. I…

— Bryan Cranston

When Disney was creating Elsa, they based a lot of her movements on that of a ballerina, which was interesting for me…

— Georgina Haig

I attended Professional Children's School in Manhattan because my ballet and modern dance schedules were intensive and had started to interfere with…

— Essence Atkins

“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

“Afterwards Isabelle often wondered if the moments themselves were greater or the memory of them. At least the memory did not pass,…

— Toni Bentley

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

— Angelina Jolie

I should never conclude were I to speak to you of all the misfortunes which have their origin in the faulty carriage…

— Jean-Georges Noverre

The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul. The true dance is an expression of serenity; it is controlled…

— Isadora Duncan

The defect in wisdom and taste which exists among the majority of dancers is due to the bad education which they generally…

— Jean-Georges Noverre

“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

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

— Anonymous

To have a platform like So You Think You Can Dance, where you're reaching this audience that's been created over the 10…

— Misty Copeland

I took ballet, tap, modern and jazz growing up.

— Quinta Brunson

I amp up my workout by doing Ballet Beautiful twice a day.

— Lily Aldridge

Do ballet and play football. Sing and dance. Laugh and cry.

— Michael Skolnik

Until I was in 6th grade, I took ballet, jazz, tap, and hip hop.

— Peyton List

I'm steel-toed boots in a ballet-slipper world.

— Richard Kadrey

“Burdened no more is soul for whom life flows through dance like breath.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

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