Best 390 quotes in «ballet quotes» category

The greater the fool the better the dancer.

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

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.

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

The music industry is so easy compared to the ballet world.

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.

The noble entitlement bespeaks an élan, a certain type of relationship with your partner. It means formidable technique not displayed lightly. The excitement comes from elegance.

The once red leaf, the last of its clan, that dances as often as dance it can.

The pointes for girls, I always say, have to be like an elephant's trunk; strong and yet flexible and soft.

The real beauty in life is that beauty can sometimes occur.

The problem is not making up the steps but deciding which ones to keep.

The purpose of art is higher than art. What we are really interested in are masterpieces of humanity.

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

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.

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.

There comes a moment in a young artist's life when he knows he has to bring something to the stage from within himself. He has to put in something in order to be able to take something.

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.

There were some parts of the film [Swiss Army Man] that the Daniels [Kwan and Scheinert] really wanted to look as elegant as a piece of ballet. As Hank and Manny go on in the story, they get better and better at being with each other and more and more adept - Hank knows more and more what Manny's going to need at any given point, and having that choreography helps a bit.

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

There's no similarity between football and ballet, so this ain't ballet music being played on the field. I'm pumping something that's going to put me in a frame of mind to go to war, and something that's very high tempo and high beat.

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

To change the world, you must first change yourself. And baby, that's hard enough.

They were doing the Dying Swan at the ballet. And there was a rumor that some bookmarkers had drifted into town from upstate New York and that they had fixed the bullet. There was a lot of money bet on the swan to live.

This art, born of genius and good taste, can become beautiful and varied to an infinite degree.

To handle paint the way Pollock did, you need the muscularity of a ballet dancer.

We must never forget that the dance is the cradle of Negro music.

To many a youth and many a maid, dancing in the chequer'd shade.

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

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.

True art consists in concealing art.

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

We should realize in a vivid and revolutionary sense that we are not in our bodies but our bodies are in us.

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

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.

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

Whenever I have had a sudden urge to quit dancing, I just remember that moment I had when I was young and remember that dancing is what I want to do.

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

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

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.

When movement becomes ecstatic, then this is dance. When the movement is so total there is no ego, then it is dance.

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

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

When I would create a dance, I wouldn't have the luxury that ballet people do when they take a piece of music and impose a dance upon it. What we did in motion pictures was have a song and within that song try to elaborate. My usual method was to do what a writer does: get a plot.

When one lifts a ballerina, it is not her weight but her nature that causes the problem.

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

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.

When we go in the ring we know we're going to get hit. We know we're not the ballet people. But if you go in there and have doubt in your mind that you're afraid to get hit, forget it.

When you are on stage in front of an audience, you want to engage the entire crowd. If a thousand people are in the theater, you need to dance a thousand different ways, not one-thousandth of a way.

When you are on stage, you don't see faces. The lights are in your eyes and you see just this black void out in front of you. And yet you know there is life out there, and you have to get your message across.

Wrestling is ballet with violence.