Ballet Quotes - page 10

Anyone who has a child today should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he'll escape. (W. H. Auden)
I have always loved fashion because it's a great way to express your mood. And I'm definitely a shoe lover. The right pair of shoes can change the feel of an outfit, and even change how a woman feels about herself. A woman can wear confidence on her feet with a high stiletto, or slip into weekend comfort with a soft ballet flat. View quote
Fergie
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. View quote
Carmen Electra
Mum, who had been a dancer with a small ballet company before she got married, was full of encouragement. She didn't say, "This is really good, you should do this", She just encouraged us to do whatever we liked. View quote
Dannii Minogue
I'm very flower-like. I love classical music. I go to ballet and I cry. There's nothing so beautiful. View quote
Michael Gambon
Coming near him like a ballet dancer she took a leap towards him, and he, frightened by her vehemence, and fearing that she would crash against him, instinctively became absolutely rigid, and she felt herself embracing a statue. View quote
Anaïs Nin
I have ballet class every other day for two hours. And for 'Six Feet Under', last week there was a sequence where I had to do a whole choreographed dance number, so I had four hours of dance practice every day. View quote
Michelle Trachtenberg
The ballet of the good city sidewalk never repeats itself from place to place, and in any one place is always replete with new improvisations. View quote
Jane Jacobs
I remember vividly seeing 'Tarzan' and Fred Astaire, the Chaplin films, Fred Astaire musicals, MGM, because of my mother. She was just interested in everything and she took me to opera and ballet, and then ballet got me hooked. View quote
Mikhail Baryshnikov
I started taking ballet lessons when I was 4, and I was performing in ballet companies when I was 10, and I did summer stock in Miami Beach when I was 12, and finally I said, 'I gotta go to Broadway.' View quote
Rita Rudner
"I really did suffer a lot,” she said, "and for a lot longer than I even care to remember. I was sure I'd never find anything to take the place of ballet, and it took all my energy just to get through each day. My parents and my friends all said that time alone would heal the wound, and I guess I knew it was true, but I wished I could hibernate or something, and let time go by without having to suffer through it. But of course the clock just kept slowly ticking away. Tick, tick, tick. (Ryu Murakami)
I came to New York to study ballet and English. View quote
Penélope Cruz
I used to dance for seventeen years -classical ballet, which was very disciplined. I like yoga and Pilates, but I don't have the discipline to go to the gym. View quote
Penélope Cruz
As a kid, I had a lot of energy; but the ballet lessons made me calm - this pleased my mother. View quote
Penélope Cruz
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. View quote
Penélope Cruz
The available worlds looked pretty grim. They had little to offer him because he had little to offer them. He had been extremely chastened to realize that although he originally came from a world which had cars and computers and ballet and Armagnac, he didn't, by himself, know how any of it worked. He couldn't do it. Left to his own devices he couldn't build a toaster. He could just about make a sandwich and that was it. View quote
Douglas Adams
My life isn't theories and formulas. It's part instinct, part common sense. Logic is as good a word as any, and I've absorbed what logic I have from everything and everyone ... from my mother, from training as a ballet dancer, from magazine, from the laws of life and health and nature. View quote
Audrey Hepburn
Well, I took ballet for many, many years, so my whole childhood really revolved around dance class. I grew up around dance; my mother was a dancer. View quote
Amy Sherman-Palladino
In this room, the salamander was squashed between the pages of the rhyming dictionary, thereby changing poetry forever. Here, Salome walked around with a big red fish held high up over her head. Old Father spanked her with a ballet slipper, sending her to bed without milk or honey. Dance was changed in this room, too. View quote
Tom Robbins
The more I thought about it, the better I liked the idea. The corps de ballet were already calling me "the Phantom of the Opera," an intriguing sobriquet which appealed to me very strongly, until I realized that it would mean signing my ransom notes P.T.O. One did not wish to descend to the ridiculous! O.G. I became and O.G. I have remained. But I still liked to think of myself as the Phantom. View quote
Susan Kay
With classical ballet you are literally injuring yourself. (Marina Abramovic)
I've got no plans to be a ballet dancer at the moment. View quote
Neil Patrick Harris
You can't drink on an eight hour flight, pass out, and then go onstage... well you can, but then you're Spandau Ballet. View quote
Robert Smith (musician)
Football ... is a ballet of wondrous beauty choreographed by highly skilled performers, dramatising the conflict between good and evil that takes place in every heart. And, at the same time it reflects the impatient immediacy of modern society in that success breeds immortality, while the procurement of second place begets anonymity. View quote
Damien Richardson
This latest skirmish in the high art/low art war has played out most fiercely over Mr. Tidwell, who shocked balletomanes when he left American Ballet Theater in 2005, then added insult to injury by joining the third season of "So You Think You Can Dance.”. View quote
Danny Tidwell