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Ballet Quotes by Vera-Ellen
- I was called a bookish child. Mother sent me to a ballet teacher in Cincinnati when I was nine years old. I guess I was…
- Dancing is like breathing-missing a day doing either is very bad.
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