Ballet Quote by Ritchie Blackmore

When they do let them sustain on screen from head to toe, though, then you know they must think the person is a good…

— Gene Kelly

Letting go of perfectionism, so ingrained in the nature of a ballet dancer, can be the most difficult thing.

— Anonymous

Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible

— Agnes de Mille

Ballet is sort of a mystery to me. And I don't want to unravel that mystery.

— Robert Caro

Ballet is like any other art form in that we all start out knowing nothing about it.

— Robert Gottlieb

Ballet is something for which you need so much control and composure. And there's an element to acting that is the complete opposite. You…

— Sonoya Mizuno

Making the ballet really taught me how to get things moving. Ballet dancers don't stand still.

— Guy Maddin

Most dancers have no awareness of how they look; half of them think they're fat. There is anorexia in the ballet world; there are…

— Benjamin Millepied

Ballet is not technique but a way of expression that comes more closely to the inner language of man than any other.

— George Borodin

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

I find that dancers are only well trained in ballet these days.

— Twyla Tharp

It's like, either you're a great dancer and you're going to do great, or it doesn't come naturally to you.

— Cheryl Burke