Ballet Quotes - page 7

I've been dancing my entire life. Jazz, hip hop, ballet. And then there's tap dancing. I love to tap. (Emily VanCamp)
Ballet Beautiful is really good for me, and it doesn't hurt my back, and it's a way for me to kind of get my heart moving and tone every part of my body. View quote
Erin Heatherton
I attended Professional Children's School in Manhattan because my ballet and modern dance schedules were intensive and had started to interfere with regular school hours. View quote
Essence Atkins
Apparently, I have good feet for ballet. View quote
Gillian Jacobs
From the age of four, I loved ballet and tap. I was in the school band, the choir, and all my school plays. View quote
Gugu Mbatha-Raw
For 24 hours a day, for 10 years, all I thought about was being in a band. That's all I did. I had no other social life. I don't want my life to be like that now. I've spent the past 10 years having a real life as well. But Spandau Ballet is such a difficult shadow to outrun. View quote
Gary Kemp
I started ballet in my early 20s. I studied for about ten years. Ballet is probably the one of the hardest things I've done, almost like MMA. People don't give it a lot of credit and think it's easy but it's very difficult. For an athlete, you use muscles you really don't use and ballet is something I really respect. View quote
Herschel Walker
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. View quote
James Wolcott
I am both proud and honored to be on the Board of Directors for the Texas Ballet Theater. View quote
Janine Turner
I had danced with Janet Jackson and P. Diddy so I had done a bunch of hip hop. Really and truly my roots are in modern and ballet but, professionally, that's not really out there any more, unfortunately, so these artists aren't really having a lot of ballet dancers behind them so I had to learn hip hop really quick. View quote
Jenna Dewan
Ballet is such a disciplined craft and it has given me a good grounding. (Jennifer Ellison)
I grew up as a dancer, and music and dance are so closely tied that in ballet class, you're listening to all this classical music, and in modern class, you're working with a live drummer. It was something that always made me feel really comfortable, and I've had a connection to since the beginning. View quote
Jillian Hervey
My mum said she remembers me asking her if she'd take me to ballet lessons when I was about two and a half. She said I could barely speak, and yet was asking for ballet lessons. View quote
Joanne Froggatt
The life of a dancer is tragically short. What is remarkable about the New York City Ballet is that it makes us forget that. Because it keeps the ballet alive. View quote
John Guare
All the New York City Ballet does is hit beautiful home runs. View quote
John Guare
I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner. View quote
John Guare
However, the moral center of New York City, I believe, is the New York City Ballet. View quote
John Guare
And what would be great numbers in a Broadway show are now on stage of the New York City Ballet. View quote
John Guare
Does the New York City Ballet affect other places? Yeah, it lets people know they should come to New York. View quote
John Guare
I think that every year that the New York City Ballet is alive is worthy of celebration. Because otherwise the terrible thing is just that we take it for granted. View quote
John Guare
I started dancing when I was five, and I trained intensively as a competitive dancer up until the end of high school. I did all genres, and later on a did a lot of extra ballet on top of that. I actually got accepted to Julliard for dance during my senior year, but I ultimately turned it down to come to L.A. to act. (Jacob Artist)
Ballet teaches you how to hold yourself. View quote
Joseph Altuzarra
In terms of withstanding incredible amounts of pain - both physical and emotional - I don't think there's any better training than ballet. View quote
Julia Jones
I was a weird teenager. My mother was actually worried because I didn't have any interest in dating in my teenage years. I had all this desire to pursue my passions like ballet, then sailing, then music, so I didn't have any emptiness to fill. View quote
Kiesza
There's nothing like the force and challenge of a new ballet to galvanize everyone involved in bringing it to life. View quote
Karen Kain