Ballet Quotes - page 3

I wanted to be a ballet teacher. (Jaclyn Smith)
God comes to us in theater in the way we communicate with each other, whether it be a symphony orchestra, or a wonderful ballet, or a beautiful painting, or a play. It's a way of expressing our humanity. View quote
Julie Harris
I went away when I was 9 to a ballet school. I thought I wanted to be a dancer, but eight years of ballet cured me of that. View quote
Juliet Mills
I love ballet. Ballet is its own being. It has its own vocabulary. I feel as if I am in a different world when I am in the ballet studio. View quote
Kiernan Shipka
I toured the Middle Eastern countries with the ballet. View quote
Leslie Caron
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. View quote
Lily Aldridge
If nobody comes to your shows, then it's modern dance. If everybody comes to your shows and no one likes it, is that ballet? I don't know. View quote
Mark Morris
I'm the first one out on the dance floor. In college I had to take jazz, ballet and tap dancing, but, before that, it was just social. View quote
Miles Teller
All ballet, all reading, all music. That was my world, my inner world. View quote
Natalia Makarova
There would never have been a British Ballet without Diaghilev. He had a wonderful influence. View quote
Ninette de Valois
I started taking ballet lessons when I was three and a half and I still take dance classes. (Oksana Baiul)
I never went to a ballet until I was 45 years old. I don't know why. View quote
Robert Caro
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. View quote
Robert Caro
I deliberately made an effort not to become an expert on the ballet. View quote
Robert Caro
Sometimes during a ballet I'll look around and see all these rows of intent faces, concentrating on this beautiful thing up on the stage. View quote
Robert Caro
The ballet embodies the notes of music. And sometimes you almost feel like you can see the notes dance up there on the stage. View quote
Robert Caro
At the ballet, you really feel like you're in the presence of something outside the rest of your life. Higher than the rest of your life. View quote
Robert Caro
The New York City Ballet is obviously speaking to a whole new generation and bringing it the same wonder and beauty that it brought previous generations. View quote
Robert Caro
The moment the curtain rose on that first ballet, I knew something wonderful and new had come into my life. I can still see the first scene. The ballet was Divertimento No. 15. View quote
Robert Caro
I was ballet dancing at four, playing piano by six, and doing commercials by 12. When I was 21, I was on the number one live comedy show in Puerto Rico. I told my parents, 'I'm going to New York to become a performer.' And I left. View quote
Roselyn Sanchez
Look at a football field. It looks like a big movie screen. This is theatre. Football combines the strategy of chess. It's part ballet. It's part battleground, part playground. We clarify, amplify and glorify the game with our footage, the narration and that music, and in the end create an inspirational piece of footage. (Steve Sabol)
Ballet is an incredibly difficult, beautiful art form that takes a lot of training, a lot of time, and a lot of hard work. View quote
Sutton Foster
So I'm studying ballet every day and really training so people will see me as a ballet dancer, which no one's seen before. View quote
Sutton Foster
In fact, ballet companies did not exist in the Midwest when I was a child. View quote
Suzanne Farrell
On the other hand, I think it is wonderful for everyone to take ballet classes, at any age. It gives you a discipline, it gives you a place to go. It gives you some control in your life. View quote
Suzanne Farrell