Ballet Quotes

467 Ballet quotes by 299 unique authors

The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for… — Isadora Duncan
Some Russian ballet master woman said there's no culture in America, but if you look you can find interesting stuff in this country, don't you… — Robert Duvall
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming… — Albert Einstein
Even though I am a professional, and I know what the steps are, I don't quite know how I'm going to do them, because I… — Suzanne Farrell
In fact, ballet companies did not exist in the Midwest when I was a child. — Suzanne Farrell
I've got no plans to be a ballet dancer at the moment. — Neil Patrick Harris
God comes to us in theater in the way we communicate with each other, whether it be a symphony orchestra, or a wonderful ballet, or… — Julie Harris
When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire. — Angelina Jolie
A child miseducated is a child lost. — John F. Kennedy
I danced with passion to spite the music. — Gelsey Kirkland
The highest heels I do are six-inch heels - but mostly only dancers can wear them, since they are used to being on point in… — Christian Louboutin
I'm enamored with the art world. Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic, there's a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any kind… — Steve Martin
The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie. — Agnes de Mille
A pas de deux is a dialogue of love. How can there be conversation if one partner is dumb? — Rudolf Nureyev
Technique is what you fall back on when you run out of inspiration. — Rudolf Nureyev
I grew up in the theater and danced ballet atrociously. — Maureen O'Hara
Some people think that movements, such as the movements in ballet, are a higher cultural expression, whereas some are just dirt. I think it is… — Yoko Ono
Heaven help the American-born boy with a talent for ballet. — Camille Paglia
If I didn't have kids, I would be at the theater or the ballet every single night of my life. — Sarah Jessica Parker
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have. — Norman Vincent Peale
Figure skating is an unlikely Olympic event but its good television. It's sort of a combination of gymnastics and ballet. A little sexy too which… — Andy Rooney
It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished… — Theodore Roosevelt
I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle. It wasn't mine. — Rita Rudner
I started taking ballet lessons when I was 4, and I was performing in ballet companies when I was 10, and I did summer stock… — Rita Rudner
Look at a football field. It looks like a big movie screen. This is theatre. Football combines the strategy of chess. It's part ballet. It's… — Steve Sabol

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