Quotes about Ballet

Ballet is a dance executed by the human soul. Votes: 6

Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and sulfurous hatreds where anything is likely, and dancers know it. Votes: 6

I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner. Votes: 5

If mutual fund directors are independent, then I'm the lead character in the Bolshoi Ballet. Votes: 5

However, the moral center of New York City, I believe, is the New York City Ballet. Votes: 5

And what would be great numbers in a Broadway show are now on stage of the New York City Ballet. Votes: 5

Does the New York City Ballet affect other places? Yeah, it lets people know they should come to New York. Votes: 5

I think that every year that the New York City Ballet is alive is worthy of celebration. Because otherwise the terrible thing is just that we take it for granted. Votes: 5

And it is always Easter Sunday at the New York City Ballet. It is always coming back to life. Not even coming back to life - it lives in the constant present. Votes: 5

Ballet is good, because it makes you stand up tall. Votes: 4

Ballet is the fairies baseball. Votes: 3

Ballet teaches you how to hold yourself. Votes: 3

Ballet.something pure in this crazy world Votes: 3

Ballet will speak for itself. About itself. Votes: 3

Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible Votes: 3

Ballet is only good when it is great. Votes: 3

Ballet is a riddle of means and ends. Votes: 3

Ballet is incestuous. This world is smaller than small. Votes: 3

City Ballet remains a great company in perpetual artistic crisis. Votes: 3

Ballet really taught me so much about the power of movement. Votes: 3

I grew up studying ballet; I grew up honing my craft. Votes: 3

All the New York City Ballet does is hit beautiful home runs. Votes: 3

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure. Votes: 3

Ballet-girls have a bad reputation, which is in most cases well deserved Votes: 3

Ballet-girls have a bad reputation, which is in most cases well deserved. Votes: 3

Ballet costumes are easier that opera because they are designed for movement. Votes: 3

Ballet is more than a profession - it is a way of life. Votes: 3

The first dance performance I saw was Joffrey Ballet doing 'Billboards' to Prince. Votes: 3

Ballet in the air... Twin butterflies until, twice white They Meet, they mate Votes: 3

Dance is very, very old. With Louis XIV at Versailles is where ballet started. Votes: 3

Ballet is such a disciplined craft and it has given me a good grounding. Votes: 3

Ballet: men wearing pants so tight that you can tell what religion they are. Votes: 3

There would never have been a British Ballet without Diaghilev. He had a wonderful influence Votes: 3

One of the most beautiful sights in dance is American Ballet Theatre in full flight. Votes: 3

Dancing is a tough career, but I'm glad I spent it at the Royal Ballet. Votes: 3

Ballet is important and significant - yes. But first of all, it is a pleasure. Votes: 3

In fact, ballet companies did not exist in the Midwest when I was a child. Votes: 3

I never went to a ballet until I was 45 years old. I don't know why. Votes: 3

Ballet is sort of a mystery to me. And I don't want to unravel that mystery. Votes: 3

The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie. Votes: 3

If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts. Votes: 3

The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have. Votes: 3

Making the ballet really taught me how to get things moving. Ballet dancers don't stand still. Votes: 3

Ballet is like any other art form in that we all start out knowing nothing about it. Votes: 3

Since my mom is the President of Ballet Hawaii, I'm always in touch with stuff going on. Votes: 3

You increase muscle bulk by training against resistance. For example, weights. And in ballet, this isn't the case. Votes: 3

I am both proud and honored to be on the Board of Directors for the Texas Ballet Theater. Votes: 3

I've been dancing all my life and studied at Joffrey Ballet when I was 13 and singing all my life. Votes: 3

Ballet is quite unnatural on the joints. My body is just worn. My joints are 10 years older than me. Votes: 3

One of the few things in dance to match the Royal Ballet's curtain calls is the Royal Ballet's dancing. Votes: 3

I had to do a tango with Raft and I learned to dance in ballet shoes with my knees bent. Votes: 3

I ended up training only for four years before I was accepted into American Ballet Theater in New York City. Votes: 3

Ballet is not technique but a way of expression that comes more closely to the inner language of man than any other. Votes: 3

You can't drink on an eight hour flight, pass out, and then go onstage... well you can, but then you're Spandau Ballet. Votes: 3

I do take class because I still dance, and yes, I do slip into class with the Royal Ballet from time to time. Votes: 3

I'm a classical ballet dancer, and at the end of the day I want to be with American Ballet Theater, performing classical ballets. Votes: 3

Ballet is not just my profession, it is my life ... It is horrible for me to think that one day it will all finish. Votes: 3

Ballet is an incredibly difficult, beautiful art form that takes a lot of training, a lot of time, and a lot of hard work. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Ballet for a rainy day Silent film of melting miracle play Dancing out there through my window To the backdrop of a slow descending grey Votes: 3

I went to the Performing Arts School and studied classical ballet. That attitude is something that's put into your head. You are never thin enough. Votes: 3

Ballet is the body rising. Ballet is ceremonial and hieratic. Its disdain for the commonplace material world is the source of its authority and glamour. Votes: 3

Everything seems to be going faster and faster. It's really harder to create something that endures. The New York City Ballet has succeeded in doing that. Votes: 3

Ballet is number one, everything else is scheduled in the small windows when I'm not in the studio taking class, rehearsing, on stage or on tour. Votes: 3

The New York City Ballet is obviously speaking to a whole new generation and bringing it the same wonder and beauty that it brought previous generations. Votes: 3

The New York City Ballet is obviously speaking to a whole new generation and bringing it the same wonder and beauty that it brought previous generations Votes: 3

The particular ballet was not so important as the fact that I was physically healthy, and capable of getting out there and dancing as often as possible. Votes: 3

Ballet is ultimately a logical technique; it favors the shortest, most efficient route from one position into another. This factor gives an aesthetic clarity to all motions. Votes: 3

I took several years of dance lessons that included ballet, tap and jazz. They helped a great deal with body control, balance, a sense of rhythm, and timing. Votes: 3

At age 14, coming to the U.S., all I knew was American Ballet Theatre, Baryshnikov, Nureyev, and some of the European companies. I barely knew anything about Balanchine. Votes: 3

I love ballet. Ballet is its own being. It has its own vocabulary. I feel as if I am in a different world when I am in the ballet studio. Votes: 3

Not very many companies go through Hawaii on their way to anywhere. San Francisco Ballet was the only company I remember, and Bolshoi, coming through Hawaii when I was younger. Votes: 3

The life of a dancer is tragically short. What is remarkable about the New York City Ballet is that it makes us forget that. Because it keeps the ballet alive. Votes: 3

I had a really creative teacher at primary school. He used to get us doing things such as singing Spandau Ballet in drag in the choir, and I remember loving it. Votes: 3

Ballet pumps are the dream shoes because they are so comfortable. They look great both with jeans and summer dresses; and you can even wear the right pair with an evening gown. Votes: 3

There might've been wires, but I have this ability to make myself light. Well you know what, in ballet, when you kind of lift yourself here, it's all up in the head. Votes: 3

Ballet Beautiful is really good for me, and it doesn't hurt my back, and it's a way for me to kind of get my heart moving and tone every part of my body. Votes: 3

Ballet was exactly what I was searching for, but my environment definitely made me the dancer and the person that I am today. And the Hip-Hop culture was a big part of it. Votes: 3

The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for this school of affected grace and toe walking. Votes: 3

I love New York. I was in New York at the age of 13, at the School of American Ballet, walking around the subways in my little bunhead and thinking I was so cool. Votes: 3

My mom and dad would take me all over. One night we'd be at the Apollo watching James Brown, and then I'd be at the Joffrey Ballet. It was that kind of scene. Votes: 3

Ballet is certainly appreciated in New York, but it has been a part of the Russian culture, history and heritage for hundreds of years, so it's much more instilled in the Russian blood. Votes: 3

Ballet really lends itself to that because there's such a sense of ritual, with wrapping the shoes every day and preparing new shoes for every performance. It's such a process. It's almost religious, in nature. Votes: 3

Ballet is completely unnatural to the body, just being turned-out... it's not the way your body is supposed to function, so you actually train your body to be a different structure than you were born with. Votes: 3

I was born in Toronto and studied with the National Ballet of Canada. I went to school to study dance, slept on the floor, ate nothing, waitressed - and then there was a Mary J. Blige audition. Votes: 3

Ballet is completely unnatural to the body, just being turned out... it's not the way your body is supposed to function, so you actually train your body to be a different structure than you were born with. Votes: 3

Ballet found me. I was discovered by a teacher in middle school. I always danced, my whole life. I never had any training, never was exposed to seeing dance, but I always had something inside of me. Votes: 3

We are going to set up a branch of the St Petersburg Mariinsky Theatre here [on the Far Easter]. We are also planning to open local branches of the Hermitage Museum and the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet. Votes: 3

City Ballet has to develop choreographers of stature and a new approach to coaching before everything we value about it fades away and, in the great tradition of the Cheshire Cat, there's nothing left but Peter Martins' smile. Votes: 3

Ballet might be too formal of a title for the type of dance I do, but I love to dance. I love to draw and paint; I do ceramics and photography. I'm interested in a lot of creative stuff. Votes: 3

We arrived and we thought, 'This is our time. This is our generation. We have a responsibility.' " @garyjkemp of Spandau Ballet in "Mad World: An Oral History of the New Wave Artists and Songs That Defined the 1980s Votes: 3

Ballet is always about the realm of possibilities, the realm of what the human body can do, what the human spirit can do. And it's about listening, it's about listening to remarkable music and how we respond to that. Votes: 3

Ballet is like football. I don't understand a footballer's technique but I can see when he's playing brilliantly. People don't like ballet because they think they don't understand it. Actually they do. It's the most primitive form of appeal. Votes: 3

I started Ballet at a very young age and I was captivated immediately. It became my voice, means to overcome those final barriers to expressing myself. Letting myself fly free. The more experience I have, the more I get to know myself. Votes: 3

The New York City Ballet is always about the realm of possibilities, the realm of what the human body can do, what the human spirit can do. And it's about listening, it's about listening to remarkable music and how we respond to that. Votes: 3

Figure skating has been a great influence for me. I took dance at the School of American Ballet, which helped my own skating. And whether you are a skater or a dancer, without sounding narcissistic, it is all about looking in the mirror. Votes: 3

I did grow up in France, and even though I didn't go to the school or dance with the Paris Opera Ballet, I absorbed similar ideas in my training. I understand the scale of a big company. I danced for one for almost 20 years. Votes: 3

I've always been interested in both writing and music. When I first started getting published, I also worked as rehearsal pianist for the Boston Ballet, touring with them all over the U.S.A. and Europe - I wasn't making enough money from writing to support myself. Votes: 3

Ballet has really helped me in every acting role. You have to be very disciplined, you have to be able to control your nerves and perform under pressure, and all those things you have to use in acting when you're on film or going for an audition. Votes: 3

I went to the International Ballet competition when I was 15 or 16 and that was the first time I competed. I didn't get very far but it was the first time that I realized what I needed to do to become a dancer. I realized how hard it was. Votes: 3

Melissa Barak, an ex-City Ballet dancer and sometime choreographer, has put together an unspeakably dopey and incompetent mess called 'Call Me Ben,' combining ultra-generic dance, terrible dialogue and disastrous storytelling, about the founding of Las Vegas by the gangster Bugsy Siegel, who insists, violently, on being addressed as 'Ben.' Votes: 3

Wrestling is ballet with violence. Votes: 1

Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body. Votes: 1

I love ballet because you can see how beautiful the body is. Votes: 1

Men wearing pants so tight that you can tell what religion they are. Votes: 1

In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms. Votes: 1

When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire. Votes: 1

When I was a little kid, I took tap and ballet. I've always loved to dance. I'm a rhythm machine. Votes: 1

The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener. Votes: 1

When life takes me on a new journey, I simply remember the smile my first ballet recital put on my face and I move forward. Votes: 1

My world was a community ballet school, a marching band, my two sisters and my girlfriends. I played saxophone in the band and was a bit nerdy. Votes: 1

You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up. Votes: 1

I wasn't a competitor. I would play outside with my friends, but not really anything like ballet or soccer. I tried to play soccer, and it went badly. Votes: 1

The highest heels I do are six-inch heels - but mostly only dancers can wear them, since they are used to being on point in ballet shoes. Their feet are arched. Votes: 1

What really matters is that 'Black Swan' deploys and exaggerates all the cliches of earlier ballet movies, especially 'The Red Shoes,' another tale of a ballerina driven mad and suicidal. Votes: 1

Growing up in Niagara Falls, Ontario, I took classes as a young girl and became very serious about ballet, and also performed with a local company, although it wasn't a professional company. Votes: 1

What 'War and Peace' is to the novel and 'Hamlet' is to the theater, Swan Lake' is to ballet - that is, the name which to many people stands for and sums up an art form. Votes: 1

Swan Lake' is the most difficult thing to portray for a female ballet dancer; it really requires such specific qualities of articulation, agility, strength, and the arm work is something that takes a lot of training. Votes: 1

I grew up with classical music when I was a ballet dancer. Now when I have to prepare an emotional scene, to cry or whatever, I listen to sonatas. Vivaldi and stuff. It's just beautiful to me. Votes: 1

I was a weird teenager. My mother was actually worried because I didn't have any interest in dating in my teenage years. I had all this desire to pursue my passions like ballet, then sailing, then music, so I didn't have any emptiness to fill. Votes: 1

The discipline that ballet requires is obsessive. And only the ones who dedicate their whole lives are able to make it. Your toenails fall off and you peel them away and then you're asked to dance again and keep smiling. I wanted to become a professional ballet dancer. Votes: 1

Writing used to be my hobby, but now that it's my job, I have no hobby - except watching TV and laying around the pool reading 'U.S. Weekly.' I have tried many hobbies, such as knitting, Pilates, ballet, yoga, and guitar, but none of them have taken. Votes: 1

At the ballet classes I took when I first came to New York, I would see great dancers like Cynthia Gregory and Lupe Serrano. I would look at them and study what they could do, and what I couldn't do. And then I'd think maybe they should try what I could do. Votes: 1

Look at a football field. It looks like a big movie screen. This is theatre. Football combines the strategy of chess. It's part ballet. It's part battleground, part playground. We clarify, amplify and glorify the game with our footage, the narration and that music, and in the end create an inspirational piece of footage. Votes: 1

I will say a lot of dancers do such beautiful things for their body and then they smoke a cigarette. I've never been a smoker, but I realized after taking yoga . . . in ballet you're not encouraged to do a lot of breathing. I think in a weird way, a lot of dancers find relief in actually breathing. Votes: 1

I had seen the ballet of 'Swan Lake' as a child but it was as an adult, when I saw a production featuring Erik Bruhn, that I first noticed how significant a part the ever-present threat of violence played. This juxtaposition of great beauty and grace with a backdrop of pure evil stayed with me for years. Votes: 1

I have always loved fashion because it's a great way to express your mood. And I'm definitely a shoe lover. The right pair of shoes can change the feel of an outfit, and even change how a woman feels about herself. A woman can wear confidence on her feet with a high stiletto, or slip into weekend comfort with a soft ballet flat. Votes: 1

Classical ballet will never die. Votes: 0

I liked the structure of ballet. Votes: 0

I wanted to be a ballet teacher. Votes: 0

Training for the ballet, Potter?" yelled Malfoy. Votes: 0

Football is the ballet of the masses. Votes: 0

My mother danced; she loved the ballet. Votes: 0

Apparently, I have good feet for ballet. Votes: 0

I'm steel-toed boots in a ballet-slipper world. Votes: 0

With classical ballet you are literally injuring yourself. Votes: 0

I wanted to be a male ballet dancer. Votes: 0

I want to share the ballet world with everyone. Votes: 0

I do after-school ballet and also hip-hop and jazz. Votes: 0

I toured the Middle Eastern countries with the ballet. Votes: 0

Baseball is a ballet without music. Drama without words. Votes: 0

Beauty, like male ballet dancers, makes some men afraid. Votes: 0

Excellent! I will still be in time for the ballet! Votes: 0

I thought 'Out of Africa' would be a beautiful ballet. Votes: 0

Heaven help the American-born boy with a talent for ballet. Votes: 0

Bel canto is to opera what pole-vaulting is to ballet. Votes: 0

I grew up in the theater and danced ballet atrociously. Votes: 0

Heaven help the American-born boy with a talent for ballet Votes: 0

I came to New York to study ballet and English. Votes: 0

The music industry is so easy compared to the ballet world Votes: 0

All ballet galas are unbearable, but they're unbearable in different ways. Votes: 0

Do ballet and play football. Sing and dance. Laugh and cry. Votes: 0

you...are...a...frige...with...wings...we...are...freaking...ballet...dancers! Votes: 0

I wanted to be a ballerina. I studied ballet for 19 years. Votes: 0

The domain of the ballet dancer is not earth but air. Votes: 0

The best physique I ever had was when I was ballet dancing. Votes: 0

I've got no plans to be a ballet dancer at the moment. Votes: 0

I still love to see the ballet. And I love to boogie. Votes: 0

I find that dancers are only well trained in ballet these days. Votes: 0

He was a punk, she did ballet. What more can I say. Votes: 0

I have done the company lifestyle for 16 years, and ballet has changed. Votes: 0

I did community theater in Georgia and called myself a ballet dancer. Votes: 0

I took ballet dancing forever, and there was a natural transition into acting. Votes: 0

All ballet, all reading, all music. That was my world, my inner world, Votes: 0

I used to dance when I was younger - ballet and modern dance. Votes: 0

All ballet, all reading, all music. That was my world, my inner world. Votes: 0

I deliberately made an effort not to become an expert on the ballet. Votes: 0

Of course I was always mad about the ballet russe, mad about it! Votes: 0

I always wanted to act and sing, but my first love was ballet. Votes: 0

Cincinnatians support a symphony, an opera, a ballet, museums, many galleries and theater groups. Votes: 0

People who leave Washington do so by way of the box... ballet or coffin. Votes: 0

Twyla Tharp set her sights on ballet, and ballet, hungry for major talent, succumbed. Votes: 0

I've studied dance since I was very young, and I continue to study ballet. Votes: 0

You should have seen me at 14, with braces and glasses, gangly and doing ballet! Votes: 0

Since I was a child I've loved going to the opera, theatre and ballet. Votes: 0

I love dancing, actually. My mother taught children's dance, ballet, tap, jazz...I'm very flexible. Votes: 0

I started with ballet and then my cousin Sarah introduced me to her tap teachers. Votes: 0

I love musicals; I love the ballet, opera, the circus. It's all performance to me. Votes: 0

A fine picture is but the image of nature; a finished ballet is nature herself. Votes: 0

My personal trainer is an ex-dancer so we do a lot of ballet and jazz. Votes: 0

I had some ballet training but didn't like it. It was like a game to me. Votes: 0

I wanted so badly to study ballet, but it was really all about wearing the tutu. Votes: 0

My earliest memory is of sitting at Mum's dance school, watching her teach a ballet class. Votes: 0

Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important. Votes: 0

There's an opera out on the turnpike, there's a ballet being fought out in the alley. Votes: 0

I had to quit ballet because it felt like a part of me was dying inside. Votes: 0

I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle. It wasn't mine. Votes: 0

The hardest thing that I'll ever do, is ballet. Because you are either good or bad. Votes: 0

I think that taking ballet is one of the best things a girl can do. Period. Votes: 0

I had rather be a kitten and cry mew Than one of these same metre ballet-mongers. Votes: 0

I was a ballet dancer growing up and that's what I was convinced I would be. Votes: 0

Baseball is an art! A drama! A ballet without music! Let us give it a Greek chorus! Votes: 0

Coco Chanel was always doing things with ballet, so it is a tradition clashing fashion and ballet. Votes: 0

Cricket is first and foremost a dramatic spectacle. It belongs with theatre, ballet, opera and the dance. Votes: 0

I love going to see the theatre whether it's a Broadway play or a Russian ballet company. Votes: 0

I realize how much ballet gave me, and because of ballet, I'm known as a graceful gymnast. Votes: 0

Badminton is like ballet dancing. It requires a lot of control, strength, mind play and measured movement Votes: 0

Transplanting the ballet to the United States is like trying to raise a palm tree in Dakota. Votes: 0

I'm very flower-like. I love classical music. I go to ballet and I cry. There's nothing so beautiful. Votes: 0

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned. Votes: 0

I've been very physical my whole life. I've done a lot of ballet, fencing and karate, and everything. Votes: 0

Anyone interested in design must be interested in other fields of expression - theater, ballet, photography, literature, music. Votes: 0

I do ballet and pointe work. I also do tap, commercial jazz and technical jazz, freestyle street dancing. Votes: 0

In a ballet company, you're trying to create unison and uniform when you're in a cour de ballet. Votes: 0

I tell you, the arts - and especially ballet - the discipline is extraordinary. I was extremely impressed. Votes: 0

The eternal and uneasy relationship between ballet and modern dance endures, but radically altered in tone and intensity. Votes: 0

I started taking ballet lessons when I was three and a half and I still take dance classes. Votes: 0

I need a big wave to really excel. The smaller stuff is a bit like...ballet for me. Votes: 0

I take class. I'm always ballet ready. I'm ready to go - got my tights and my shoes. Votes: 0

During the day I pull on jeans and ballet flats; but I do love getting dressed up, too. Votes: 0

I think most dancers would agree that the art of ballet chooses the dancer, not the other way around. Votes: 0

Björk's wraparound swan frock . . . made her look like a refugee from the more dog-eared precincts of provincial ballet. Votes: 0

My mother and my father always had me in ballet and dance, and I sang in a girl's group. Votes: 0

I really wanted to make it as a ballet dancer to make my mom proud. But it didnt happen. Votes: 0

I really wanted to make it as a ballet dancer to make my mom proud. But it didn't happen. Votes: 0

To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other Votes: 0

In France, ballet is on TV ... It's on the eight-o'clock news. It's a cool thing to be a dancer. Votes: 0

I've been dancing my entire life. Jazz, hip hop, ballet. And then there's tap dancing. I love to tap. Votes: 0

I can dance. I like hip hop and stuff and jazz movements, but I'm horrible in ballet. I tried. Votes: 0

Tennis is more than just a sport. It's an art, like the ballet. Or like a performance in the theater. Votes: 0

In the Thirties, when I was in New York, I did the first surrealistic ballet in a show of mine. Votes: 0

There's nothing like the force and challenge of a new ballet to galvanize everyone involved in bringing it to life. Votes: 0

What's so wonderful about ballet is that it's mind-driven physicality. It's almost a Greek ideal of body, mind, and form. Votes: 0

Each morning I do my ballet class for one hour; after that, it means one hour less to get ready. Votes: 0

I copied my brother. He was a natural dancer. Graceful. People always asked did we study ballet. We never did. Votes: 0

I think classical ballet dancers dance on pointe because they're simultaneously touching the earth and reaching up to the skies Votes: 0

You go to the ballet and you see girls dancing on their tiptoes. Why don't they just get taller girls? Votes: 0

When I was nine, I started doing ballet. That's when I knew that I was down to keep doing it. Votes: 0

If I didn't have kids, I would be at the theater or the ballet every single night of my life. Votes: 0

Lesbians, homosexuals, masochism, sadism are not perversions. Actually, there are only two perversions: hockey on grass and ballet on ice. Votes: 0

I hated the ballet, but I liked performing. I did 20 shows, and I couldn't get the smile off my face. Votes: 0

The heart of the classical repertory is the Tchaikovsky-Petipa 'Sleeping Beauty,' and no ballet is harder to get right. Votes: 0

Baseball is beautiful....the supreme performing art. It combines in perfect harmony the magnificent features of ballet, drama, art, and ingenuity. Votes: 0

Go figure a crazy, mixed-up country where ballet outsells boxing. I wouldn't be surprised if their wrestling was on the level. Votes: 0

I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses. Votes: 0

You...are...a...fridge...with wings,' Fang ground out, punching an Eraser hard with every word. 'We're...freaking...ballet...dancers. Votes: 0

Most people think of ballet as children in little tutus. They don't know it is sweat, blood and tears as well! Votes: 0

When I've done gymnastics, ballet or soccer - I was always trying to be the best. I'm really driven. Really driven. Votes: 0

As a kid, I had a lot of energy; but the ballet lessons made me calm - this pleased my mother. Votes: 0

I've never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer. Votes: 0

It's very easy to become selfish and narrow-minded and see ballet as the only thing in life, but there's lots more. Votes: 0

Anyone who has a child today should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he'll escape. Votes: 0

I was a protege; by the age of 10, I was studying with ballet choreographer Anthony Tudor in a class of adults. Votes: 0

Noncooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent, so is the ballet. Votes: 0

I can state that I created a ballet company of which everyone said: St. Petersburg has the greatest ballet in all Europe. Votes: 0

I did ballet, jazz and flamenco from when I was five years old. And my professional career started with dancing in musicals. Votes: 0

I think that ballet is very good for the body. It's very similar to yoga, because you have to hold a position. Votes: 0

Learning ballet is wonderful for children even if they never become dancers. It is wonderful because it teaches discipline, grace, and manners. Votes: 0

When I'm doing well, it's like I'm in a nice little ballet. Everything is going slow all around me. It's very peaceful. Votes: 0

Our animals don't do drugs. Instead, we move them almost daily in a tightly choreographed ballet from pasture spot to pasture spot. Votes: 0

I believe that I definitely developed into a refined and graceful woman due to ballet. It has shaped me in every way. Votes: 0

You know, ballet might be too formal of a title for the type of dance I do, but I love to dance. Votes: 0

The focus of our family life was homework and what was for dinner; getting to ballet rehearsal and getting my brother to soccer. Votes: 0

From the age of four, I loved ballet and tap. I was in the school band, the choir, and all my school plays. Votes: 0

I go to ballet five days a week. I would love to go to a fashion show one day, because I never have. Votes: 0

A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet. I'm beginning to think that walls are very unhealthy things. Votes: 0

In terms of withstanding incredible amounts of pain - both physical and emotional - I don't think there's any better training than ballet. Votes: 0

When I was very young I wanted to be an opera singer, a ballet dancer... The people I loved were a little different. Votes: 0

In the world of classical ballet there are only a handful of story ballets, so getting a new one is cause for excitement. Votes: 0

The ballet needs to tell its own story in such a way it can be received without having to be translated into language. Votes: 0

I was a ballet dancer and that kind of bled into musical theater. I was constantly in rehearsal for one thing or another. Votes: 0

If you looked at my feet, you would know for sure that I used to do ballet. They're completely destroyed and ripped up. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

My first ballet class was on a basketball court. I'm in my gym clothes and my socks trying to do this thing called ballet. Votes: 0

We usually spend one hour per week on ballet but Marta Karolyi has us do a lot of compulsory floor in the morning practice. Votes: 0

I used to get so comfortable running the hurdles, I was just like a ballet dancer going out there and going through the routines. Votes: 0

The ballet embodies the notes of music. And sometimes you almost feel like you can see the notes dance up there on the stage. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Don't you think you're quite young?' 'I'm twenty-one,' said Brida. 'If I wanted to start learning ballet, I'd be conseidered too old. Votes: 0

When I stopped doing ballet, I started training in the pool. I would do my barre exercises in the water, because that prevents injuries. Votes: 0

Sometimes during a ballet I'll look around and see all these rows of intent faces, concentrating on this beautiful thing up on the stage. Votes: 0

I don't really dance for pleasure much." "Uh--so you, uh, usually dance professionally, or what?" Seb asked. "Yeah," said Nick. "The ballet is my passion. Votes: 0

I trained in every form of dance - started as a tap dancer when I was a kid, then contemporary, ballet, ballroom, everything. Russian, Swedish. Votes: 0

When you are confronted with an opera, you have to keep an eye on everything: the musicians, the chorus, the ballet, the singers, the staging. Votes: 0

The ballet of the good city sidewalk never repeats itself from place to place, and in any one place is always replete with new improvisations. Votes: 0

I attended Professional Children's School in Manhattan because my ballet and modern dance schedules were intensive and had started to interfere with regular school hours. Votes: 0

I didn't know if I could act, but I knew I could be a great ballet dancer, and Balanchine put out the carpet for me. Votes: 0

I wanted to be a ballet dancer. I was bad - I'm not very coordinated. But I always wished I could have been a dancer. Votes: 0

I can remember being very keen to go to drama school at the age of eight, and practising ballet in my bedroom to Queen soundtracks. Votes: 0

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 those things. Votes: 0

Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic, there's a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any kind of music. It can't exist without it. Votes: 0

At the ballet, you really feel like you're in the presence of something outside the rest of your life. Higher than the rest of your life. Votes: 0

Some Russian ballet master woman said there's no culture in America, but if you look you can find interesting stuff in this country, don't you think? Votes: 0

The cat crossed the street daintily, pointing his feet like a ballet dancer, lifting them high as if his feet were too good for the pavement. Votes: 0

New York. It's home to opera, Broadway, museums, the ballet and orchestra - everything that I love. The most real people in the world live there. Votes: 0

Most dancers have no awareness of how they look; half of them think theyre fat. There is anorexia in the ballet world; there are those things. Votes: 0

I've always loved dancing. As soon as there is good music, I've got to get up and dance. I was passionate about ballet as a little girl. Votes: 0

Figure skating is an unlikely Olympic event but its good television. It's sort of a combination of gymnastics and ballet. A little sexy too which doesn't hurt. Votes: 0

I've won my last four matches by knockout. Out of 30 fights, I've won more than 20 by knockout. I think that a ballet dancer wouldn't win by knockout. Votes: 0

Well, I took ballet for many, many years, so my whole childhood really revolved around dance class. I grew up around dance; my mother was a dancer. Votes: 0

I grew up dancing, and my ballet teacher was literally a drill sergeant; she was so strict and so scary. And it made me a better dancer. Votes: 0

Like a ballet dancer, she keeps me on my toes. This dance we're doing, it keeps me so fit I know she's a perfect fit for me. Votes: 0

I learned how to communicate and articulate myself from ballet. It's just insane to me, when they don't think of that as a part of our education. Votes: 0

I went away when I was 9 to a ballet school. I thought I wanted to be a dancer, but eight years of ballet cured me of that. Votes: 0

Lots of people make the stage and it can seem very violent and over the top, but it's not really. It's always a kind of gentle ballet. Votes: 0

If nobody comes to your shows, then it's modern dance. If everybody comes to your shows and no one likes it, is that ballet? I don't know. Votes: 0

I'm the first one out on the dance floor. In college I had to take jazz, ballet and tap dancing, but, before that, it was just social. Votes: 0

I know that I'll forever be involved in ballet. This is where my life was meant to be, and I don't see myself straying completely away, ever. Votes: 0

As an adult, I took ballet classes three times a week, and I believed it gave me better posture, a stronger body, and made me more graceful. Votes: 0

My mom always wanted me be a ballerina, and I was just adamant that I wanted to be a track star. I wanted nothing to do with ballet. Votes: 0

What is true of ballet is no less true of the other lively arts. Change is built into their natures. You watch a performance, and then... it's gone. Votes: 0

I have a ballet barre in my gym. I turn the music up so loud that the walls are pulsating, and I go for it for an hour. Votes: 0

The vocabulary and manner of classical ballet express a high order of discipline and restraint, a sense of harmony with forces larger and more lasting than the individual. Votes: 0

The bulk of life on Earth lives in a peaceful place where the temperature is stable. There's hunting going on, but it's very civilized, like a slow ballet. Votes: 0

I've always been in love with Melbourne. When I was 12, I was taken into the city by my grandmother to go to the ballet for the first time. Votes: 0

I could never make a ballet by wrinkling my brow and concentrating. If you set out deliberately to make a masterpiece, how will you ever get it finished? Votes: 0

I was sent to ballet classes when I was a little girl. I wasn't very good, but it's that thing where little girls always try ballet, or whatever. Votes: 0

When I was a child, I went to stage school three times a week in the evenings - singing, ballet, tap, modern and acting, and I loved it. Votes: 0

When I feel the joy of receiving a gift my heart nudges me to join creation's ballet, the airy dance of giving and receiving, and getting and giving again. Votes: 0

I used to dance for seventeen years -classical ballet, which was very disciplined. I like yoga and Pilates, but I don't have the discipline to go to the gym. Votes: 0

I grew up in Honolulu. It's not the ballet cultural mecca by any stretch of the imagination. People are much more familiar with hula than they are with ballet. Votes: 0

It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style. Votes: 0

I used to love ballet and I did it really, really intensely. But it came so much about achieving physical perfection, which when I was 14 was a big deal. Votes: 0

I had been a ballet dancer and never could make a living, and just being so excited that I got to, all of a sudden, live as an actor. Votes: 0

It takes a lot of money to be a part of the ballet world. Both the training and the supplies are expensive, the shoes, the leotards and the tights. Votes: 0

I've always been excited by the strangeness of ballet, but I can't bear it when people just come forward and do a turn in the air for no reason. Votes: 0

I'm a dancer, so I do four hours of dance a week of ballet, jazz, hip hop, contemporary. I also play the piano and I just started learning the guitar. Votes: 0

I think that I'm so fortunate to have found classical ballet. It completely changed my life and it shaped the person that I am today, on and off the stage. Votes: 0

I trained as a ballet dancer - well, I started when I was two and a half, and was serious about it from when I was eight until I was 18. Votes: 0

Anatoli Tarasov, the guy that created the Soviet style of play, was a visionary. He was a creative thinker. He studied ballet and chess and art and read a lot. Votes: 0

Somewhere in there the grace of a ballet dancer joins with the strength of an SAS squaddie, the dignity of an ancient kind, the nerve of a bomb disposal officer... Votes: 0

The woman represents ballet. She is most important, powerful and vital to it. Therefore, she is not "less than" a man. If anything she is "more than" in this field. Votes: 0

If I'm at a party, I can put on some crazy dance moves. However, it's not synchronized, beautiful or choreographed like a ballet dancer. I'd love to be graceful like that. Votes: 0

If the simple positions of ballet are demonstrated straight on, they seem quite dull and lifeless, but when put on a diagonal, they begin to take on all kinds of possibilities. Votes: 0

Clearly, the pleasures wines afford are transitory - but so are those of the ballet, or of a musical performance. Wine is inspiring and adds greatly to the joy of living. Votes: 0

I went to ballet school for nine years, and there was an agent for the whole school who happened to be there visiting one of the performances. She suggested an audition. Votes: 0

If I had to reflect on the finest classical male ballet dancers of my time, Vladimir Vasiliev of the Bolshoi and the Danish dancer Eric Bruhn were, I feel, without peer. Votes: 0

My parents have always given me whatever I wanted. Took me to the ballet, the opera, museum exhibitions. I was always surrounded by art. It's their fault I've become an actress. Votes: 0

Hopefully, I'll be a part of ABT, in some way, forever. I think I'll always be a part of ballet and try to push diversity, for as long as I live. Votes: 0

If we don't take that time (to be romantic), then it's karate, then it's ballet, and then there's Christmas, and then my husband is flying off to tour around the world. Votes: 0

My mum took me to the ballet at three, and that was the only time I sat still, with jaw open, mesmerised. She brought me home, and I wouldn't stop dancing. Votes: 0

The worst thing about me is my toes. I've thick joints from wearing pointe ballet shoes - I went to a dance school from the age of 11 and danced every day. Votes: 0

I think it's really important to mix cardio with toning, so I love boxing and then add in Pilates or ballet to keep me long and lean and avoid bulking up. Votes: 0

Pilates is my favorite core strengthener. I do it three or four times a week. With all the strengthening and lengthening, it's like ballet. Plus, you get to do it lying down! Votes: 0

I don't feel like my life is that of a superstar! Every day I wake up, I take the train, I go to my ballet class. My everyday life is pretty normal. Votes: 0

Mostly folk music is people with fruity voices trying to keep alive something old and dead. It's all a bit boring, like ballet: a minority thing kept going by a minority group. Votes: 0

The moment the curtain rose on that first ballet, I knew something wonderful and new had come into my life. I can still see the first scene. The ballet was Divertimento No. 15 Votes: 0

Think of a ballet dancer at the barre. Plie, eleve, battement tendu. She is practicing, because she knows that there is no difference between practice and art. The practice is the art. Votes: 0

I'm enamored with the art world. Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic, there's a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any kind of music. It can't exist without it. Votes: 0

I was in a competing company and have been dancing since I was four - ballet, tap, jazz, hip hop - so it's a huge part of my life and my music. Votes: 0

I feel like I represent every young dancer, and even non-dancer, who felt they were not accepted by the ballet world. I'd like to think that they can see themselves in me. Votes: 0

When I was 12, I was doing competitive jazz, tap and ballet in Michigan. The studio put the best dancers together, and I joined that. We always did really, really well in local competitions. Votes: 0

On set, the playground for the character, how much it takes varies. Is it like ballet, is it like jazz? The content always lends itself to the form, and it's really not mathematics. Votes: 0

When she goes about her kitchen duties, chopping, carving, mixing, whisking, she moves with the grace and precision of a ballet dancer, her fingers plying the food with the dexterity of a croupier. Votes: 0

In swimming at my level it's about control of the small movements. A good ballet dancer floats across the stage, the best sprinters virtually abolish gravity. All motion occurs in the right direction. Votes: 0

I love ballet and I love dancing...... It's a little boring for me to go to the gym because I'm used to the dancing discipline - It's really hard, but much more fun. Votes: 0

The mystery of Christopher Wheeldon deepens. Yes, he's the most talented of the younger ballet choreographers - indeed, where's the competition? Yes, he's particularly good at nurturing dancers and identifying their essential qualities. Votes: 0

I tried a little of everything when I was little. I tried karate, I tried ballet, I tried piano lessons and singing lessons... I was a pretty normal kid, for the most part. Votes: 0

As ye sow, so shall ye reap. When a ballet company spends a lot of money on gimmicky pieces, it's stuck with them for a while - they have to earn their keep. Votes: 0

In ballet, I felt that no matter how good I was, if I didn't have the right body type or if I didn't fit a certain mold there was nothing I could do. Votes: 0

My Mom is a ballet director, so I had this idea in me that classical training is the best foundation for anything you do, so I wanted to get a classical background and voice. Votes: 0

Culture in America and everywhere else comes from the suffering, from those who don't want the old ways. They want to bring in the new, whether it's the ballet, when it started, or Shakespeare. Votes: 0

The funny thing about writing is that whether you're doing well or doing it poorly, it looks the exact same. That's actually one of the main ways that writing is different from ballet dancing. Votes: 0

Every girl - and boy, if you so choose - should take some ballet. Because ballet gives you grace. It gives you [the ability] to work with your hands. It's all about your hands. Votes: 0

I skate about 15 to 20 hours a week and also incorporate a lot of off-ice training. I take ballet and Pilates classes and lift weights with my physical therapist when I'm not on the ice. Votes: 0

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 dance the spirit of champagne, I want to drink it! Votes: 0

The first good player I watched as a kid was Joe DiMaggio, and that was like ballet. Since then, I played sandlot and college ball and came to understand how difficult it can be. Votes: 0

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 of. I say sports because they train constantly, every single day. Votes: 0

Usually, the extras have a different mentality. I had the mentality of an artist, because I was a 'ballet-rina.' But most extras are out to make a fast buck for nothing. They're 'atmosphere.' Votes: 0

You realize you can get good at something, even though ballet almost felt like you could never be good enough. No matter how hard you worked, it was so hard to be a great dancer. Votes: 0

You have to be able to cut off from the ballet and relax, or you have anxiety dreams at night, worrying about what you're going to dance the next day, going over every little detail. Votes: 0

We determine whether a book is for boys or girls long before the reader gets a chance to decide: we package them with soldiers and ballet slippers on their covers, war machines and glittering gowns. Votes: 0

Going on stage and doing ballet, for the first time, was even more verification of, "This is what I'm meant to do. This is what I'm going to do. I'm going to make it somehow." Votes: 0

At the beginning, ballet accounted for at least two hours out of six hours of my daily training session. Later I devoted less time to ballet, but every workout of mine included training in choreography. Votes: 0

If Balanchine had any secret, it was one that has endured through two hundred years of classical ballet. It is that dancing correctly in three dimensions, on the music, creates the fourth dimension of meaning. Votes: 0

I think people are people and, if their feelings are truthful, they can connect. It doesn't matter if you're an aging, 50-something wrestler at the end of his career, or an ambitious, 20-something ballet dancer. Votes: 0