Ballet Quotes

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

As a kid, I had a lot of energy; but the ballet lessons made me calm - this pleased my mother.

I love ballet and I love dancing...... It's a little boring for me to go to the gym because I'm used to the dancing discipline - It's really hard, but much more fun.

My dancing days are past.

The worst thing about me is my toes. I've thick joints from wearing pointe ballet shoes - I went to a dance school from the age of 11 and danced every day.

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."

My personal trainer is an ex-dancer so we do a lot of ballet and jazz.

Both costume and fashion are about telling a story, except that in a ballet the story has already been written by the composer or the librettist.

Being alive is about playing to win. Being brain dead is when you play not to loose.

Why be normal? What's the point?

Ballet is like any other art form in that we all start out knowing nothing about it.

Culture in America and everywhere else comes from the suffering, from those who don't want the old ways. They want to bring in the new, whether it's the ballet, when it started, or Shakespeare.

I began with dance, doing ballet at 3, then tap, jazz, modern. Then I sang in church choirs, learned how to play clarinet and drums, sang with rock bands and only then did I get into musical theatre.

About, about, in reel and rout the death fires danced at night.

I had never picked up a basketball before. I went through a grueling audition process. It was almost as if I was learning to walk. It would be like teaching somebody to dance ballet for a role.

If I didn't have kids, I would be at the theater or the ballet every single night of my life.

I don't really dance for pleasure much." "Uh--so you, uh, usually dance professionally, or what?" Seb asked. "Yeah," said Nick. "The ballet is my passion.

I've won my last four matches by knockout. Out of 30 fights, I've won more than 20 by knockout. I think that a ballet dancer wouldn't win by knockout.

The dance world is too small in lots of ways - it's too intense, it rattles around itself, and it needs exposing to other ideas.

I actually was a ballet dancer - I studied ballet from three until 13 - but like very seriously, that's what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a contemporary ballet dancer. I wanted to go to Juilliard.

My mother danced; she loved the ballet.

I wanted to be a ballerina. I studied ballet for 19 years.

Lots of people make the stage and it can seem very violent and over the top, but it's not really. It's always a kind of gentle ballet.

Every girl - and boy, if you so choose - should take some ballet. Because ballet gives you grace. It gives you [the ability] to work with your hands. It's all about your hands.

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

You realize you can get good at something, even though ballet almost felt like you could never be good enough. No matter how hard you worked, it was so hard to be a great dancer.

So I'm studying ballet every day and really training so people will see me as a ballet dancer, which no one's seen before.

Do not brood. It makes the moment you are living in unavailable for learning and life.

I was very happy that I was as normal as possible before I went into serious dance.

A brand-new pair of toe shoes presents itself to us as an enemy with a will of its own that must be tamed.

A toe shoe is as eccentric as the ballerina who wears it: their marriage is a commitment.

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

The cat crossed the street daintily, pointing his feet like a ballet dancer, lifting them high as if his feet were too good for the pavement.

I liked the structure of ballet.

It [ballet] projects a fragile kind of strength and a certain inflexible precision.

It [ballet] is a perfect medium for the expression of spiritual love.

Ballet shoes... I cannot play with them like they're toys. But when the music is playing they get deep on my toes.

There are those who dance the notes and those who dance the music.

There are no good tights, It´s all such a rare sight... Gently, I put one in. Holes are within! They´re only good for a fight.

True love is like little roses, sweet, fragrant in small doses.

Real men don't lift weights, they lift women.

The stares were annoying, but I knew they didn’t mean any harm. So, every morning, smiling at them became part of my routine, too.

Dancing is creating a sculpture that is visible only for a moment.

There are those who dance the notes, and those who dance the music.

It might have all the same

But it's this one boy, hanging over a barre, sharing his history, who ended up here with me, in this moment, by pure fate. I wonder what it would be like to kiss him.

This book's like black holes. It really engulfes you whole.

If anything at all, perfection is not when there is nothing to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Every dance you make belongs to you. It is part of your collection. When you think of it like that, you'll want to make your next routine the best you've ever made!

You consider me for a moment, perhaps balancing the weight of your fear against the loneliness you will later feel in your room if you do not speak now