Ballads Quote by William Shakespeare

Ballet was this thing that just felt so innate in me, like I was meant to be doing this.

— Misty Copeland

Ballet was just something that I always wanted to do.

— Mary Helen Bowers

I have always been secretly obsessed with ballet - in awe of the discipline, the physicality, the poise and grace. Behind the perfectly placed…

— Angela Scanlon

If it were not for dreams there would not be such a thing as ballet, the cruelest of the performing arts.

— Anonymous

Ballet is not just movement, not simply abstract. It's something beautiful. Sometimes there's this feeling in the movement that makes me want to cry.

— Nina Ananiashvili

Oh, I could have done more. I refused a lot of ballets. I said, 'No way, no way I'm going to do that.'

— Sylvie Guillem

Ballet is my passion. I live it and breathe it.

— Michaela DePrince

You...are...a...fridge...with wings,' Fang ground out, punching an Eraser hard with every word. 'We're...freaking...ballet...dancers.

— James Patterson

I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.

— e. e. cummings

Sometimes I feel as if sections of my ballets were done for me - that I didn't do them myself.

— Antony Tudor

Sometimes I feel as if sections of my ballets were done for me - that I didnt do them myself.

— Antony Tudor

The simplest comment on my book came from my ballet teacher. She said, "I wish you hadn't made every line funny. It's so depressing."

— Quentin Crisp