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Ballet Quotes by Maria Karnilova
- My mother never learned English, but in Russia, the greatest thing was to give a child to the arts. And so they gave me to…
- At 7, I was at the barre and dancing at folk festivals. Then I was a student with the ballet school of the Metropolitan Opera.
More Ballet Quotes
- The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's… — 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… — 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… — Meg Cabot
- Endurance is patience concentrated. — Thomas Carlyle