Ballet Quote by Margot Fonteyn Download Open image “Ballet is more than a profession - it is a way of life.” — Margot Fonteyn ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ballet Career Dance Life Profession Way Way of life
I think that, like any kind of career, there are many different people involved in the ballet world. — Amanda Schull 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
I'm not fond of the idea of doing ballet for ballet's sake, because dancers get exploited and they're not paid well. They do it… — Sergei Polunin Copy Share Image
Ballet can be grueling, for sure, but it gives you a certain discipline. — Margaret Qualley Copy Share Image
Ballet is an incredibly difficult, beautiful art form that takes a lot of training, a lot of time, and a lot of hard work. — Sutton Foster Copy Share Image
Ballet class is like Life Lessons 101. You learn some of life's most important lessons here that you will carry with you forever. — Joanne H Morscher Copy Share Image
Ballet is always about the realm of possibilities, the realm of what the human body can do, what the human spirit can do. And… — John Guare Copy Share Image
For every dancer, no matter how amazing your career, there's more to life than ballet. Being adored by your audience, it's only part of… — Darcey Bussell Copy Share Image
Ballet is the repetitive training of the body for the purpose of executing steps in traditional fashion. It is tied to and bound by… — Shirley MacLaine Copy Share Image
Ballet is not technique, not a way of doing things, but a means of expression that comes perhaps more closely to the inner language… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The thing about ballet that I never knew about is that it's one of the most excruciating sports that I've ever been a part… — Mila Kunis Copy Share Image
... when I left the stage door and sought my orientation among real people I was in a wilderness of unpredictables in an unchoreographed world. — Margot Fonteyn Copy Share Image
Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life… — Margot Fonteyn Copy Share Image
...wherever one is, some part of oneself remains on another continent. — Margot Fonteyn Copy Share Image
Life forms illogical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether… — Margot Fonteyn Copy Share Image
“People who live in big cities are deprieved, consciously or unconsciously, of those almost indefinable things on which our human sensitivity feeds, like the… — Margot Fonteyn Copy Share Image
The world of dance is a natural world from which civilization has divorced many of us by making it appear remote - something reserved… — Margot Fonteyn Copy Share Image
Life offstage has sometimes been a wilderness of unpredictables in an unchoreographed world. — Margot Fonteyn Copy Share Image
Dancing was something to be taken very seriously when engaged in and otherwise put out of mind. — Margot Fonteyn Copy Share Image
I have never wanted to live to be old, so old I'd run out of friends or money. — Margot Fonteyn Copy Share Image
Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the first time — Margot Fonteyn 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
What I love most about ballet is being able to express my emotions through dance, and to be able to bring others joy through… — Michaela DePrince 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
