Ballet Quote by Ninette de Valois

Diaghilev was the first to notice good character dancers and that sort of thing.

— Ninette de Valois

The particular ballet was not so important as the fact that I was physically healthy, and capable of getting out there and dancing as…

— Suzanne Farrell

Ballet is a closed world and very rigid; MGM was a fairyland. You'd walk down the lot, seeing all these fabulous movies being made…

— Cyd Charisse

I copied my brother. He was a natural dancer. Graceful. People always asked did we study ballet. We never did.

— Harold Nicholas

I loved being at the Royal Ballet. Those choreographers, MacMillan and Ashton, they knew how to translate complicated life into choreography.

— Sylvie Guillem

“By disparaging ballet he succeeded very well in convincing the boys that ballet was not for Americans, that it was European in origin and…

— Walter Terry

George Balanchine is my role model because his work is so varied. You can see two ballets of his and not even realize that…

— Justin Peck

I deliberately made an effort not to become an expert on the ballet.

— Robert Caro

Ballet was just something that I always wanted to do.

— Mary Helen Bowers

Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

For a long time everyone had a stereotype of ballet that it was easy and that we were just prancing around. But thanks to…

— Francesca Hayward

I liked the structure of ballet.

— Wendy Whelan