Ballet Quotes

467 quotes by 318 authors

The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be… — Fred Astaire
I thought 'Out of Africa' would be a beautiful ballet. — Amy Adams
Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned. — George Balanchine
The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener. — George Balanchine
No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
I remember vividly seeing 'Tarzan' and Fred Astaire, the Chaplin films, Fred Astaire musicals, MGM, because of my mother. She was just interested in everything… — Mikhail Baryshnikov
If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts. — Ritchie Blackmore
You know, ballet might be too formal of a title for the type of dance I do, but I love to dance. — Jeff Bridges
You increase muscle bulk by training against resistance. For example, weights. And in ballet, this isn't the case. — Deborah Bull
Writing used to be my hobby, but now that it's my job, I have no hobby - except watching TV and laying around the pool… — Meg Cabot
Endurance is patience concentrated. — Thomas Carlyle
The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure. — Dale Carnegie
At the ballet, you really feel like you're in the presence of something outside the rest of your life. Higher than the rest of your… — Robert Caro
Sometimes during a ballet I'll look around and see all these rows of intent faces, concentrating on this beautiful thing up on the stage. — Robert Caro
Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may learn to do it well,… — Lord Chesterfield
With classical ballet you are literally injuring yourself. — Marina Abramovic
She drove me to ballet class...and she took me to every audition. She'd be proud of me if I was still sitting in that seat… — Elisabeth Moss
Baseball is beautiful....the supreme performing art. It combines in perfect harmony the magnificent features of ballet, drama, art, and ingenuity. — Bowie Kuhn
It is the best of all games for me. It frequently escapes from the pattern of sport and assumes the form of a virile ballet.… — Jimmy Cannon

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