Ballet Quote by Robert Smith

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

There are only so many hours you can sit on the bus and watch TV or play basketball or whatever we do to pass…

— Kenny Chesney

It is no doubt possible to fly--but first you must know how to dance like an angel.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Always the question for dancers is: Can we fly?

— Jean-Christophe Maillot

Ballet can be grueling, for sure, but it gives you a certain discipline.

— Margaret Qualley

How can you practice dancing in an airplane? There's a law against it.

— George Murphy

At the time I started in ballet they were dancing 'The Spirit of Champagne' on pointe, in Paris. I thought, 'I don't want to…

— Martha Graham

Ballet technique is arbitrary and very difficult. It never becomes easy...it becomes possible.

— Agnes De Mille

It's a very insular world, ballet. I feel if I had stayed much longer, it would've consumed me. I performed six days a week…

— Amanda Schull

Ballet is very stiff and I can do a triple timestep but who knows what I will be like at Ballroom or Latin.

— John Whaite

I can't dance. If I try, I'll trip onstage.

— Dua Lipa

I think that, like any kind of career, there are many different people involved in the ballet world.

— Amanda Schull