« All Ballet Quotes · Robert Helpmann's Page
Ballet Quotes by Robert Helpmann
- Ballet is like football. I don't understand a footballer's technique but I can see when he's playing brilliantly. People don't like ballet because they think…
- People often say to me - how clever you are! How brilliant to be able to go from ballet to theatre as you do. I…
- 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,…
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
- There would never have been a British Ballet without Diaghilev. He had a wonderful influence — Ninette de Valois
- Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned. — 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
- At the ballet, you really feel like you're in the presence of something outside the rest of your life. Higher than the… — Robert Caro
- Sometimes during a ballet I'll look around and see all these rows of intent faces, concentrating on this beautiful thing up on… — Robert Caro
- It is the best of all games for me. It frequently escapes from the pattern of sport and assumes the form of… — Jimmy Cannon