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Ballet Quotes by Suzanne Farrell
- You're never more of an individual than when you're a happy team player.
- Do not brood. It makes the moment you are living in unavailable for learning and life.
- Treat each class as if it were your first.
- I set as my goal to be the best dancer I could be. Not the most famous, or the highest paid dancer, just the best…
- When you are on stage in front of an audience, you want to engage the entire crowd. If a thousand people are in the theater,…
- When you are on stage you don't see faces. The lights are in your eyes and you see just this black void out in front…
- I didn't care too much for ballet, because you had to be more disciplined, and you sort of looked like everyone else. It required a…
- 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…
- The particular ballet was not so important as the fact that I was physically healthy, and capable of getting out there and dancing as often…
- 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…
- In fact, ballet companies did not exist in the Midwest when I was a child.
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
- I thought 'Out of Africa' would be a beautiful ballet. — Amy Adams
- Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned. — George Balanchine
- The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener. — 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
- I remember vividly seeing 'Tarzan' and Fred Astaire, the Chaplin films, Fred Astaire musicals, MGM, because of my mother. She was just… — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts. — Ritchie Blackmore
- You know, ballet might be too formal of a title for the type of dance I do, but I love to dance. — Jeff Bridges
- You increase muscle bulk by training against resistance. For example, weights. And in ballet, this isn't the case. — Deborah Bull
- Writing used to be my hobby, but now that it's my job, I have no hobby - except watching TV and laying… — Meg Cabot
- Endurance is patience concentrated. — Thomas Carlyle