Ballet Quotes

When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire. (Angelina Jolie)
Wrestling is ballet with violence. View quote
Jesse Ventura
Lesbians, homosexuals, masochism, sadism are not perversions. Actually, there are only two perversions: hockey on grass and ballet on ice. View quote
Faina Ranevskaya
Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned. View quote
George Balanchine
I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle. It wasn't mine. View quote
Rita Rudner
I had to do a tango with Raft and I learned to dance in ballet shoes with my knees bent. View quote
Marie Windsor
Classical ballet will never die. View quote
Ninette de Valois
Ballet is sort of a mystery to me. And I don't want to unravel that mystery. View quote
Robert Caro
The real beauty of it - key to my life was playing key chords on a banjo. For somebody else it may be a golf club that mom and dad put in their hands or a baseball or ballet lessons. Real gift to give to me and put it in writing. View quote
Vince Gill
Dance is very, very old. With Louis XIV at Versailles is where ballet started. View quote
Neve Campbell
Ballet is completely unnatural to the body, just being turned-out... it's not the way your body is supposed to function, so you actually train your body to be a different structure than you were born with. (Neve Campbell)
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. View quote
Morrissey
Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important. View quote
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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. View quote
Isadora Duncan
Ballet for a rainy day Silent film of melting miracle play Dancing out there through my window To the backdrop of a slow descending grey. View quote
Andy Partridge
If we don't take that time (to be romantic), then it's karate, then it's ballet, and then there's Christmas, and then my husband is flying off to tour around the world. View quote
Heidi Klum
The funny thing about writing is that whether you're doing well or doing it poorly, it looks the exact same. That's actually one of the main ways that writing is different from ballet dancing. View quote
John Green (author)
Cricket is first and foremost a dramatic spectacle. It belongs with theatre, ballet, opera and the dance. View quote
C. L. R. James
Ballet: men wearing pants so tight that you can tell what religion they are. View quote
Robin Williams
It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style. View quote
Quentin Crisp
Another friend began to say, "Well, Quentin has a problem of adjusting himself to society and he..." This sentence was never finished. The ballet teacher expostulated, "I don't agree. Quentin does exactly as he pleases. The rest of us have to adapt ourselves to him." (Quentin Crisp)
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." View quote
Quentin Crisp
Writing used to be my hobby, but now that it's my job, I have no hobby - except watching TV and laying around the pool reading 'U.S. Weekly.' I have tried many hobbies, such as knitting, Pilates, ballet, yoga, and guitar, but none of them have taken. View quote
Meg Cabot
You... are... a... fridge... with wings,' Fang ground out, punching an Eraser hard with every word. 'We're... freaking... ballet... dancers. View quote
James Patterson
The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener. View quote
George Balanchine