Ballet Quotes

Even when she walks one would believe that she dances.

Always the question for dancers is: Can we fly?

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

We waltzed Lisztlessly.

Bravura has nothing to do with technique. It's all about timing and oozing life.

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.

The state of least excitation of consciousness is the field of all possibilities.

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

I'm so fair that I didn't go in the sun as a child. When all my friends were on the beach, I was going to ballet. The teachers there didn't like you going in the sun, so I never did.

I get into the studio and I try to make visible what's in the choreographer's mind. Sometimes a choreographer wants you to have an idea, and sometimes you are the idea.

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

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

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.

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

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.

I don't think much of a dance step where the girl looks like she was being carried out of a burning building.

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

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 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.

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

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

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.

Ballet is the fairies' baseball.

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

I was the oldest of the children in my family. I had to do a lot of diaper-changing and lunch-making. I was taking my little sister to ballet, picking up my brother, sort of being a super-nanny.

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

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

The best physique I ever had was when I was ballet dancing.

I could have danced all night!

One must shy away from questionable undertakings, even when they bear a high-sounding name.

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

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.

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

If I see a human body on the stage, I don't see it as an abstraction. I see it as a body.

He was a boy, she was a girl, Can I make it any more obvious? He was a punk, she did ballet, What more can I say? He wanted her, she'd never tell, But secretly she wanted him as well.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

I have too much respect for ballet to dare practice it. I did ask ballerina Megan LeCrone to teach me jetés. She said that was impossible but did observe that I have great feet.

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