Best 390 quotes in «ballet quotes» category

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

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.

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

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

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.

In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell. We can't dance synonyms.

In dance the hand hath liberty to touch, the eye to gaze, the arm for to embrace.

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

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

In order to dance well, nothing is so important as the turning outwards of the thigh; and nothing is so natural to men as the contrary position.

In order to dance professionally, you have to start at a young age. No matter what, your muscle structure and your bones have to be groomed from a very young age. Nobody wakes up at 17 and decides to become a ballet dancer. I'm saying that and someone's going to be born tomorrow who decides to do that and I'm going to have my foot in my mouth.

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.

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

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

I realize how much ballet gave me, and because of ballet, I’m known as a graceful gymnast.

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

I remember vividly seeing 'Tarzan' and Fred Astaire, the Chaplin films, Fred Astaire musicals, MGM, because of my mother. She was just interested in everything and she took me to opera and ballet, and then ballet got me hooked.

I set as my goal to be the best dancer I could be. Not the most famous, or the highest paid dancer, just the best I could be. Out of this discipline came great freedom and calm.

I should never conclude were I to speak to you of all the misfortunes which have their origin in the faulty carriage of the body. All these defects, mortifying for those who have contracted them, cannot be remedied except in their early stages. A habit born in childhood is strengthened in youth, becomes deeply rooted in adulthood and is incurable in old age.

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.

I started taking ballet lessons when I was 4, and I was performing in ballet companies when I was 10, and I did summer stock in Miami Beach when I was 12, and finally I said, 'I gotta go to Broadway.'

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

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

I still love to see the ballet. And I love to boogie.

I suppose I'm the only person who remembers one of the most exciting of his ballets-it's the fruit of an unlikely collaboration between Nijinsky on the one hand and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the other.

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

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

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

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.

I think it was important that I learned to love to dance eventually for its own sake, as opposed to wanting to be a ballerina.

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

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.

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

It is not a question of who dances but of who or what does not dance.

It is not a question of skimming the surface of the art, it must be probed to its depths, for to seize upon superficial things only is to degenerate into mediocrity and obscurity.

It is shameful that dancing should renounce the empire it might assert over the mind and only endeavor to please the sight.

I toured the Middle Eastern countries with the ballet.

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.

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

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.

It takes ten years, usually, to make a dancer. It takes ten years of handling the instrument, handling the material with which you are dealing, for you to know it completely.

It was something I was more interested in myself. When I went to see my sister dance at ballet, I was really into costumes and the arts, and my family was also supportive of whatever me and my sister wanted to do. I would say I pushed myself the most to be into design.

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

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

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

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

I've got used to the fact -​ just about -​ that whatever I do is going to be compared to the other Beatles. If I took up ballet dancing, my ballet dancing would be compared with Paul (McCartney)'s bowling.

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

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