Ballet Quotes

I go to ballet five days a week. I would love to go to a fashion show one day, because I never have.

My mom always wanted me be a ballerina, and I was just adamant that I wanted to be a track star. I wanted nothing to do with ballet.

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

Ballet Beautiful is really good for me, and it doesn't hurt my back, and it's a way for me to kind of get my heart moving and tone every part of my body.

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

I had some ballet training but didn't like it. It was like a game to me.

Anatoli Tarasov, the guy that created the Soviet style of play, was a visionary. He was a creative thinker. He studied ballet and chess and art and read a lot.

Dancing is a very crude attempt to get into the rhythm of life.

Apparently, I have good feet for ballet.

Making the ballet really taught me how to get things moving. Ballet dancers don't stand still.

Dancing cheek to cheek.

Training for the ballet, Potter?" yelled Malfoy.

You...are...a...fridge...with wings,' Fang ground out, punching an Eraser hard with every word. 'We're...freaking...ballet...dancers.

Björk’s wraparound swan frock . . . made her look like a refugee from the more dog-eared precincts of provincial ballet.

I always wanted to act and sing, but my first love was ballet.

Dad worked in a warehouse when I was little and I didn't see him for three years as he was doing all the overtime God gave him to buy me new ballet shoes, or a new tutu.

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.

As I got older, I started to do it more and more, and I wanted to learn all of the different types. I grew up doing modern, so I wanted to learn ballet, tap, jazz, and African - just everything.

Since my mom is the President of Ballet Hawaii, I'm always in touch with stuff going on.

Not very many companies go through Hawaii on their way to anywhere. San Francisco Ballet was the only company I remember, and Bolshoi, coming through Hawaii when I was younger.

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

My mum said she remembers me asking her if she'd take me to ballet lessons when I was about two and a half. She said I could barely speak, and yet was asking for ballet lessons.

I come alive, in front of the mirror, skipping and dancing and acting the fool. Dance is both escape and excitement.

Ballet teaches you how to hold yourself.

I was a protege; by the age of 10, I was studying with ballet choreographer Anthony Tudor in a class of adults.

In terms of withstanding incredible amounts of pain - both physical and emotional - I don't think there's any better training than ballet.

I work out as little as I can for as much gain as I can. Yoga and a little bit of ballet -- only 30 or 40 minutes every other day. I keep supple for myself more than for roles.

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

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

I grew up dancing, and my ballet teacher was literally a drill sergeant; she was so strict and so scary. And it made me a better dancer.

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.

I need a big wave to really excel. The smaller stuff is a bit like...ballet for me.

My mom and dad would take me all over. One night we'd be at the Apollo watching James Brown, and then I'd be at the Joffrey Ballet. It was that kind of scene.

The focus of our family life was homework and what was for dinner; getting to ballet rehearsal and getting my brother to soccer.

I do ballet and pointe work. I also do tap, commercial jazz and technical jazz, freestyle street dancing.

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.

I used to love ballet and I did it really, really intensely. But it came so much about achieving physical perfection, which when I was 14 was a big deal.

Do ballet and play football. Sing and dance. Laugh and cry.

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.

My grandmother had a Miss Margaret's School of Dance to teach tap and ballet to kids, but I never studied it. I was raised a Mormon and they're dancing fools. It's the only vice they have - dancing.

Ballet is number one, everything else is scheduled in the small windows when I'm not in the studio taking class, rehearsing, on stage or on tour.

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

I don't feel like my life is that of a superstar! Every day I wake up, I take the train, I go to my ballet class. My everyday life is pretty normal.

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.

Ballet was exactly what I was searching for, but my environment definitely made me the dancer and the person that I am today. And the Hip-Hop culture was a big part of it.

I want to share the ballet world with everyone.

Physical fears change and shift depending on the role and depending on the mindset I'm in.

Bel canto is to opera what pole-vaulting is to ballet.

If you looked at my feet, you would know for sure that I used to do ballet. They're completely destroyed and ripped up.

It is a fact that all the ballet's fundamental dance steps are derived from the folk dances of Western Europe.