Ballet Quotes

467 Ballet quotes by 299 unique authors

People often say to me - how clever you are! How brilliant to be able to go from ballet to theatre as you do. I… — Robert Helpmann
I was always nervous about coming back to Australia which was a complete hangover of the days when I left when ballet was not accepted,… — Robert Helpmann
I want to share the ballet world with everyone. — Misty Copeland
I do ballet and pointe work. I also do tap, commercial jazz and technical jazz, freestyle street dancing. — Maisie Williams
I've never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer. — Bebe Neuwirth
My mother danced; she loved the ballet. — Stefanie Powers
I wasn't a ballet baby. My first dance class was in an outdoor pavilion when I was three. It was called 'creative movement.' The teacher… — Carrie Ann Inaba
The focus of our family life was homework and what was for dinner; getting to ballet rehearsal and getting my brother to soccer. — Lily Rabe
I love ballet. Ballet is its own being. It has its own vocabulary. I feel as if I am in a different world when I… — Kiernan Shipka
I've won my last four matches by knockout. Out of 30 fights, I've won more than 20 by knockout. I think that a ballet dancer… — Sergio Martinez
I had to do a tango with Raft and I learned to dance in ballet shoes with my knees bent. — Marie Windsor
I was a ballet dancer growing up and that's what I was convinced I would be. — Candice Swanepoel
Transplanting the ballet to the United States is like trying to raise a palm tree in Dakota. — Lincoln Kirstein
I really wanted to make it as a ballet dancer to make my mom proud. But it didnt happen. — Tracy Anderson
My personal trainer is an ex-dancer so we do a lot of ballet and jazz. — Rachel Stevens
The worst thing about me is my toes. I've thick joints from wearing pointe ballet shoes - I went to a dance school from the… — Pixie Lott
Ballet is good, because it makes you stand up tall. — Carine Roitfeld
Somewhere in there the grace of a ballet dancer joins with the strength of an SAS squaddie, the dignity of an ancient kind, the nerve… — Eamon Dunphy
I have always loved fashion because it's a great way to express your mood. And I'm definitely a shoe lover. The right pair of shoes… — Fergie
On the other hand, I think it is wonderful for everyone to take ballet classes, at any age. It gives you a discipline, it gives… — Suzanne Farrell
Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list -- the common seed… — Karl Marx
Boxing is my real passion. I can go to ballet, theatre, movies, or other sporting events... and nothing is like the fights to me. I'm… — LeRoy Neiman
I was embarrassed that I even wanted to become an actress because coming from L.A., with two older sisters in the business and a mom… — Elizabeth Olsen
In swimming at my level it's about control of the small movements. A good ballet dancer floats across the stage, the best sprinters virtually abolish… — Alexander Dale Oen
Well, I took ballet for many, many years, so my whole childhood really revolved around dance class. I grew up around dance; my mother was… — Amy Sherman-Palladino

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