Ballet Quotes

• My mother always said to carry yourself with dignity and pride, and I just think Audrey Hepburn totally epitomizes that, you know? From such a young age, she was dancing ballet. There was a lot going on in her life... that was during the time of the Nazis.

  

  Auli'i Cravalho
  • Life
  • Time
  • She

• The first dance performance I saw was Joffrey Ballet doing 'Billboards' to Prince.

  

  Kyle Abraham
  • Dance
  • Prince
  • Ballet

• Ballet is a healthy world despite what people might think. There's a perception that ballet dancers are skinny and unhealthy, but that's rubbish. You have to be strong, so eating regularly and healthily is essential.

  

  Darcey Bussell
  • People
  • World
  • Strong

• When I was five years old, I told my parents that I wanted to take ballet. So, ballet was the focus of my life... until puberty. Then I discovered boys and started dating a guy with a mohawk who'd come to my ballet class and freak everybody out. Shortly after that is when I quit.

  

  Chandra West
  • Life
  • Guy
  • Parents

• People who leave Washington do so by way of the box... ballet or coffin.

  

  Claiborne Pell
  • People
  • Ballet

• I've always been excited by the strangeness of ballet, but I can't bear it when people just come forward and do a turn in the air for no reason.

  

  Matthew Bourne
  • People
  • Air
  • Ballet

• The ballet makes us look at those bodies, it makes us listen to that music, it makes us wonder at the geometry, of the way they come together. The way that extraordinary space is controlled and given such emotional force.

  

  John Guare
  • Music
  • Together
  • Space

• I toured the Middle Eastern countries with the ballet.

  

  Leslie Caron
  • Ballet

• I push myself hard. I don't like pain, exactly, but as a ballerina, I lived in constant pain. At ballet school in Stockholm, I remember we had a locker where if someone had been to the doctor and gotten painkillers, we divided them among us. In a sense, we were all addicted.

  

  Alicia Vikander
  • School
  • Remember
  • Pain

• I loved gymnastics, and my gymnastics teacher said ballet was essential to help my dance routines in competitions. I only really went because my friends were going as well. It wasn't this kind of hidden love. Then, slowly, my friends stopped going and I thought, 'I like this. I am going to stay.'

  

  Darcey Bussell
  • Friends
  • Help
  • Dance

• Being in ballet school and being in leotards in front of a mirror I don't know how many hours a day was quite tough.

  

  Alicia Vikander
  • School
  • Mirror
  • Ballet

• I started dancing ballet when I was very young, so my background really is dance. But I remember loving the feeling of being on a stage and having a love for performing from a young age.

  

  Caroline Sunshine
  • Remember
  • Age
  • Feeling

• Rather than opera, football is more like ballet or a chess game. You can really see it in a team like Arsenal, especially when Dennis Bergkamp was playing. He seemed to be able to read the game like a chessboard and knew where a player would be several seconds later and put the ball there for him.

  

  Marcus du Sautoy
  • Game
  • Team
  • Football

• 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.

  

  John Guare
  • Music
  • City
  • Listening

• I highly recommend ClassPass. I spend a fortune on Barry's Bootcamp, Cycle House, SoulCycle, Flywheel, Ballet Barre, SLT Pilates, YogaWorks... I do everything, and I'm always trying different workouts, and I was like, 'Finally, 99 bucks!'

  

  Jamie Chung
  • Different
  • Trying
  • House

• Figure skating is an unlikely Olympic event but its good television. It's sort of a combination of gymnastics and ballet. A little sexy too which doesn't hurt.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Good
  • Hurt
  • Sexy

• I grew up going to see my sister dance, both at the ballet and later as a modern dancer, and have always been a big fan of the ballet. So I have had a long relationship with dance.

  

  Bryce Dessner The National
  • Up
  • Long
  • Relationship

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

  

  Clive Barnes
  • American
  • Beautiful
  • Dance

• 'Swan Lake' is the most difficult thing to portray for a female ballet dancer; it really requires such specific qualities of articulation, agility, strength, and the arm work is something that takes a lot of training.

  

  Benjamin Millepied
  • Work
  • Training
  • Lake

• I didn't really know anything about Margot Fonteyn. I'd never really been a ballet child, so I had no idea what an incredibly huge icon she was, not just in terms of a creative icon - she was also a style icon. I had no idea she was up there with Audrey Hepburn and Jackie Onassis in terms of that kind of image.

  

  Anne-Marie Duff
  • Up
  • She
  • Style

• 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.

  

  Pixie Lott
  • School
  • Age
  • Dance

• My first thought in life was wanting to be an actor. I was in ballet slippers and on pointe as soon as I could walk. I always wanted to be an actress, not a mother or housewife.

  

  Loretta Swit
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Ballet

• I came from the musical stage. My first show was '110 In The Shade.' I started as a ballet dancer and then sort of gravitated toward musical theater, so any time I got asked to sing or dance, it was a joy for me.

  

  Lesley Ann Warren
  • Time
  • Joy
  • Dance

• I was a dancer for long time. And you always hear that ballet is the core of dance, and that - once you have that down - you can do everything else. For me, jazz is like that for music.

  

  Andra Day
  • Time
  • Music
  • Long

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