Ballet Quotes

467 Ballet quotes by 299 unique authors

Ballet companies have their ups and downs, just like the rest of us. — Robert Gottlieb
When I was 12, I was doing competitive jazz, tap and ballet in Michigan. The studio put the best dancers together, and I joined that.… — Jillian Rose Reed
When Disney was creating Elsa, they based a lot of her movements on that of a ballerina, which was interesting for me to find out… — Unknown Author
I had been a ballet dancer and never could make a living, and just being so excited that I got to, all of a sudden,… — Lea Thompson
My mom devised a plan to get me out of the house and gave me the choice between ballet or skating. She knew both of… — Ashley Wagner
We determine whether a book is for boys or girls long before the reader gets a chance to decide: we package them with soldiers and… — Marie Lu
I started dancing ballet when I was very young, so my background really is dance. But I remember loving the feeling of being on a… — Caroline Sunshine
From the age of four, I loved ballet and tap. I was in the school band, the choir, and all my school plays. — Gugu Mbatha-Raw
I did ballet and gymnastics, and then I started acting when I was eight - just doing amateur theater at a place called Oldham Theatre… — Unknown Author
I was really creative. I started to dance very young. I loved to dance. I begged my mother to put me into dance classes, and… — Laverne Cox
You should have seen me at 14, with braces and glasses, gangly and doing ballet! — Margot Robbie
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… — Maria Karnilova
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. — Maria Karnilova
In the Thirties, when I was in New York, I did the first surrealistic ballet in a show of mine. — Vincente Minnelli
The ballet makes us look at those bodies, it makes us listen to that music, it makes us wonder at the geometry, of the way… — John Guare
When life takes me on a new journey, I simply remember the smile my first ballet recital put on my face and I move forward. — Andrea Thompson
I was serious about ballet for a long time, but my mom got me into tap and jazz and modern and hip-hop, and I was… — Greta Gerwig
I was a dancer from a young age. My parents were dancers; we were taken to a lot of ballet as children. It occurred to… — Elizabeth Debicki
I wanted to be a male ballet dancer. — Scott Thompson
I had a really creative teacher at primary school. He used to get us doing things such as singing Spandau Ballet in drag in the… — Dominic Cooper
I trained in every form of dance - started as a tap dancer when I was a kid, then contemporary, ballet, ballroom, everything. Russian, Swedish. — Nigel Lythgoe
I trained as a ballet dancer and fell in love with Rudolf Nureyev; I thought him the most beautiful creature. My mum had to break… — Jessica Brown Findlay
I was born in Toronto and studied with the National Ballet of Canada. I went to school to study dance, slept on the floor, ate… — Laurieann Gibson
I am passionate about ballet. — Benjamin Millepied
Life is a dancewhether it is hip-hop, ballet, or jazz. Each of us can choose the dance we want. We move in and we move… — Kumar Anupam

Who Wrote These Ballet Quotes

299 authors contributed a total of 467 Ballet Quotes, led by these top contributors: