Ballet Quote by Guy Maddin Download Open image “Making the ballet really taught me how to get things moving. Ballet dancers don't stand still.” — Guy Maddin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ballet Ballet dance Ballet dancer Dance Dancer Moving Stills Taught
I've always been excited by the strangeness of ballet, but I can't bear it when people just come forward and do a turn in… — Matthew Bourne Copy Share Image
My years of ballet and jazz dance lessons didn't make me any more graceful - they just helped keep me from bumping into the… — Toni Tennille Copy Share Image
Ballet was this thing that just felt so innate in me, like I was meant to be doing this. — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
I'd always been one of the best in my gymnastics school, so I transferred to trying to be the best dancer, without knowing anything… — Sergei Polunin Copy Share Image
Ballet is not just my profession, it is my life ... It is horrible for me to think that one day it will all finish. — Svetlana Zakharova Copy Share Image
Ballet is a finite art - your body won't let you do it forever, so I wanted to do it while I could. — Amanda Schull Copy Share Image
Ballet is such a disciplined craft and it has given me a good grounding. — Jennifer Ellison Copy Share Image
Well, that's why ballet is one of the hardest disciplines - you kind of stay childlike, because you never really experience childhood, so you… — Sergei Polunin Copy Share Image
I was too lazy to read, and I was even too lazy to imagine scenarios drawn up by the pictures. They just suggested a… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
I probably live in the best province for independent filmmakers. Manitoba has a sort of thieving-magpie approach, trying to lift productions from other provinces… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
Whenever you take a subject you're obsessed with or that haunts you, and make a movie about it, you're converting it into work units… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
I've been so lazy all my life. I used to literally lie on the couch, up until the age of 35, fearing that my… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
The Forbidden Room and Seances are related. Both of them are made up of lost film matter adapted through the medium of me and… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
Well, I had a wolverine. It was supposed to be a cat, but Jason (Patric) is allergic to cats. I can't remember where I… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
I literally designed and built the sets myself, and I kind of liked it. I always gave myself eight weeks to do that -… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
It's funny how film is the slowest art form to adapt to freedom. It's had freedom all along. It could've done whatever it wanted… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
In many relationships that I've had people just try to own the other person. — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
But in the act of attempting to imitate I discovered that I had a voice of my own. Whether I liked it or not… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
If you sit in on a film class with students, their big complaint is "That's not like real life." They don't realize that they… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
I've usually never felt comfortable shooting until things were kind of claustrophobic, but ballet dancers need a lot of space, so the sets that… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
“Afterwards Isabelle often wondered if the moments themselves were greater or the memory of them. At least the memory did not pass, while the… — Toni Bentley Copy Share Image
One can be a great artist without being a great technician. There have been many famous ballet stars who did not have the ideal… — Fernando Bujones Copy Share Image
So I'm studying ballet every day and really training so people will see me as a ballet dancer, which no one's seen before. — Sutton Foster Copy Share Image
No matter the style, the farther one goes the more obstacles increase, and the more distant appears the object it is desired to attain.… — Jean-Georges Noverre Copy Share Image
It is not a question of who dances but of who or what does not dance. — Ruth St. Denis Copy Share Image
Ballet is pure and demands that you serve something larger than yourself, whether it be beauty or art, or a combination of both. It… — Peter Martins Copy Share Image
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… — Suzanne Farrell Copy Share Image
I'd rather be a guy that can build a house or fix a car than be able to walk like a ballet dancer. — Travis Fimmel Copy Share Image
When I was 16, I moved to Torrance, California to train at a more advanced studio, and by 19, I joined the American Ballet… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to… — Patrick Swayze Copy Share Image
I only started writing in the latter days of Spandau Ballet. I didnt know I could write because all had our roles within the… — Tony Hadley Copy Share Image