Ballet Quotes

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.

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

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?

We are constantly revealing ourselves to each other through our movement; learning from and teaching each other without even trying.

Wrestling is ballet with violence.

My sisters did ballet when we were younger and I remember sitting in the car with my dad and going 'can we hurry up and go surfing!?, I'm sick of waiting for my sisters and their ballet classes.'

Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible

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

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

There are three steps you have to complete to become a professional dancer: learn to dance, learn to perform, and learn how to cope with injuries.

Great art is never perfect; perfect art is never great.

My muse must come to me on union time.

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

On dancing on pointe: Why don't they just get taller girls?

Never excuse yourself.

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.

At 35 years of age, I realized that my ballet career wasn't going to last for ever. As a parent of three young children, I had to start to plan my future after dance even though I dreaded about.

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

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.

My career came together very quickly. I only trained for four years before I became a professional, so I didn't have a lot of time to sit back and be inspired before I took my first ballet class.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

I didn't care too much for ballet, because you had to be more disciplined, and you sort of looked like everyone else. It required a certain kind of conformity that I didn't feel like I wanted to do.

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

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

I wanted to be a ballet teacher.

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

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.

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

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.

It is through strength of technique that the body stays in possession of music.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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

I grew up studying ballet; I grew up honing my craft.

Applause lavished at a whim and without discernment, often proves the ruin of young people training for a stage career.

The abuse of the best things is always detrimental.