Ballet Quotes

467 Ballet quotes by 299 unique authors

I am both proud and honored to be on the Board of Directors for the Texas Ballet Theater. — Janine Turner
My grandmother had a Miss Margaret's School of Dance to teach tap and ballet to kids, but I never studied it. I was raised a… — Michelle Shocked
Ballet is a dance executed by the human soul. — Alexander Pushkin
If nobody comes to your shows, then it's modern dance. If everybody comes to your shows and no one likes it, is that ballet? I… — Mark Morris
Notes for a ballet, The Spell: ... Suddenly Sigmund hears the flutter of wings, and a group of wild swans flies across the moon ...… — Woody Allen
I still love to see the ballet. And I love to boogie. — Alicia Vikander
I grew up dancing, and my ballet teacher was literally a drill sergeant; she was so strict and so scary. And it made me a… — Kate Hudson
My background is somewhat unusual, as I trained to be a ballet dancer. I worked in the theatre for eight or nine years as a… — William Kempe
Contrary to vulgar legend the lives of great ballerinas are not entirely given up to a few minutes of graceful movement every night followed by… — Gore Vidal
Ballet really lends itself to that because there's such a sense of ritual, with wrapping the shoes every day and preparing new shoes for every… — Natalie Portman
I was a ballet dancer and that kind of bled into musical theater. I was constantly in rehearsal for one thing or another. — Jennifer Garner
My world was a community ballet school, a marching band, my two sisters and my girlfriends. I played saxophone in the band and was a… — Jennifer Garner
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can. — Martha Graham
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men. — Martha Graham
I skate about 15 to 20 hours a week and also incorporate a lot of off-ice training. I take ballet and Pilates classes and lift… — Sasha Cohen
It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs… — Quentin Crisp
Like most citizens of popular and international urban centres, I don't take advantage of the cultural opportunities. Perhaps this comes from growing up in suburbia.… — Sloane Crosley
As a kid, I had a lot of energy; but the ballet lessons made me calm - this pleased my mother. — Penelope Cruz
I came to New York to study ballet and English. — Penelope Cruz
I used to dance for seventeen years -classical ballet, which was very disciplined. I like yoga and Pilates, but I don't have the discipline to… — Penelope Cruz
The discipline that ballet requires is obsessive. And only the ones who dedicate their whole lives are able to make it. Your toenails fall off… — Penelope Cruz
It is not a question of who dances but of who or what does not dance. — Ruth St. Denis
We should realize in a vivid and revolutionary sense that we are not in our bodies but our bodies are in us. — Ruth St. Denis
I was the oldest of the children in my family. I had to do a lot of diaper-changing and lunch-making. I was taking my little… — Vin Diesel
I grew up studying ballet; I grew up honing my craft. — Janice Dickinson

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