Ballet Quotes
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When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers - I kinda wanted to be a vampire.
Madison McKinley
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Fonteyn was our first proper British ballerina, and from the moment I started dancing, her image engulfed me. In my first year at the Royal Ballet School, Margot's statue was outside my dormitory. Like generations of budding ballet dancers before me, I used to touch her middle finger for luck.
Darcey Bussell
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I had been a ballet dancer and never could make a living, and just being so excited that I got to, all of a sudden, live as an actor.
Lea Thompson
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All the New York City Ballet does is hit beautiful home runs.
John Guare
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Slashing its way to the finish line, 'Black Swan' is the first ballet movie for highbrow horror fans for whom ballet itself signifies little to nothing. Those of us who know and love ballet can only look on it with a different kind of horror.
James Wolcott
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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.
Vin Diesel
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I grew up studying dance, taking ballet lessons.
Jane Hamilton
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I'd say the only time I ever get nervous is around great ballet dancers or people I really admire.
Dita Von Teese
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Fernand Léger's film, 'Ballet Mecanique' is the result of the desire for a picture in motion.
Alexander Calder
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No live performance can ever be perfect, and that's what keeps you on your toes - it pushes you to practice harder, show up for that 8 A.M. ballet class, and walk through the stage door every night just to have the chance to do it all again.
Andrew Keenan-Bolger
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Ballet dancers are a self-chosen elite. To survive and surmount years of disciplinary preparation and seasons of even more arduous performance requires rigid determination and almost mindless self-abnegation. One other factor is difficult to predetermine: without a certain admixture of hysteria - sometimes masking as self-obsession, sometimes even counterfeiting incipient madness - performers, at once acrobats, artists, and animals, make little public impression.
Lincoln Kirstein
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When you're really serious about ballet, it's a job - even if you're 15 years old. You're doing it six to eight hours a day.
Margaret Qualley
