Ballet Quotes

Being a former dancer, classical dancer, it informed me as a human being just in terms of the grace I guess. Ballet is a very graceful form of art. You also become very aware of your body and your mind and your body is working in conjunction. That kind of helps you in acting as well. It's not only using your mind, it's like making your mind communicate this character into your body so that you can bring it to life and physicalize it.

I wanted to be a ballet teacher.

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

Some Russian ballet master woman said there's no culture in America, but if you look you can find interesting stuff in this country, don't you think?

However, the moral center of New York City, I believe, is the New York City Ballet.

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

Wrestling is ballet with violence.

I copied my brother. He was a natural dancer. Graceful. People always asked did we study ballet. We never did.

I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle. It wasn't mine.

I never went to a ballet until I was 45 years old. I don't know why.

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

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

I grew up studying ballet; I grew up honing my craft.

I wanted to give people - which is fairly bizarre considering my whole life is contemporary dance really - I wanted to give people a really fulfilling sense that they had seen a white classical ballet - in a very pure form.

I think that every year that the New York City Ballet is alive is worthy of celebration. Because otherwise the terrible thing is just that we take it for granted.

I came to New York to study ballet and English.

The New York City Ballet is always about the realm of possibilities, the realm of what the human body can do, what the human spirit can do. And it's about listening, it's about listening to remarkable music and how we respond to that.

I wanted to be a male ballet dancer.

The music industry is so easy compared to the ballet world.

Everything seems to be going faster and faster. It's really harder to create something that endures. The New York City Ballet has succeeded in doing that.

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.

The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for this school of affected grace and toe walking.

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

When life takes me on a new journey, I simply remember the smile my first ballet recital put on my face and I move forward.

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 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.

You increase muscle bulk by training against resistance. For example, weights. And in ballet, this isn't the case.

Dance is very, very old. With Louis XIV at Versailles is where ballet started.

I didn't care too much for ballet, because you had to be more disciplined, and you sort of looked like everyone else. It required a certain kind of conformity that I didn't feel like I wanted to do.

Acting is a sense of wonder and magic and mystery for me and when life takes me on a new journey, I simply remember the smile my first ballet recital put on my face and I move forward.