Ballet Quotes

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.

Dance, dance, dance till you drop.

Football is the ballet of the masses.

A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.

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.

Be IN it. Get drunk in the moment.

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

All dancers have a cumulative tendency, because each beat of the tom-tom has an almost irresistible appeal. Soon, those who were just spectators would dance too.

Baseball is a ballet without music. Drama without words.

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

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

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

Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.

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

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

Ballet will speak for itself. About itself.

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.

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

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

You never advance without losing something en passant... you lose it because you're paying so much attention to the new thing.

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

I know a lot of choreographers prefer to do abstract dance and not be bothered with a story, but even when I'm asked to do classical ballet or a modern piece, I still want to tell a story.

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

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?

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

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.

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

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

As time goes on, all schools only get left alive if they have found something special themselves.

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

I was embarrassed that I even wanted to become an actress because coming from L.A., with two older sisters in the business and a mom who had been a ballet dancer, it was such a cliche.

Come knit hands, and beat the ground in a light fantastic round

Ballet is only good when it is great.

On the other hand, I think it is wonderful for everyone to take ballet classes, at any age. It gives you a discipline, it gives you a place to go. It gives you some control in your life.

Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room.

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

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

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

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.

Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, will you join the dance?

I am still on stage. If you read Press...you would believe that I should be gone. But here I am doing it and DOING IT WELL!

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.

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.

Without dancing you can never attain a perfectly graceful carriage, which is of the highest importance in life.

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

Nobody cares if you can't dance well.

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

As soon as I hear music, something in me starts to vibrate.

I am a cloud - in trousers.

Why are we inspired by another person's courage? Maybe because it gives us the sweet and genuine surprise of discovering some trace, at least, of the same courage in ourselves.