Ballet Quotes - page 8

In the world of classical ballet there are only a handful of story ballets, so getting a new one is cause for excitement. (Karen Kain)
I think that taking ballet is one of the best things a girl can do. Period. View quote
Karlie Kloss
Ballet really taught me so much about the power of movement. View quote
Karlie Kloss
The focus of our family life was homework and what was for dinner; getting to ballet rehearsal and getting my brother to soccer. View quote
Lily Rabe
I took several years of dance lessons that included ballet, tap and jazz. They helped a great deal with body control, balance, a sense of rhythm, and timing. View quote
Lynn Swann
I was really creative. I started to dance very young. I loved to dance. I begged my mother to put me into dance classes, and finally, in third grade, she did. Tap and jazz, but not ballet. View quote
Laverne Cox
I had been a ballet dancer and never could make a living, and just being so excited that I got to, all of a sudden, live as an actor. View quote
Lea Thompson
I didn't grow up on dance class. I was always natural. I've been in the industry since I was eight and I've always had a choreographer since then. But I never really took ballet or anything like that. View quote
Marques Houston
I do ballet and pointe work. I also do tap, commercial jazz and technical jazz, freestyle street dancing. View quote
Maisie Williams
The best physique I ever had was when I was ballet dancing. View quote
Manu Bennett
My parents have always given me whatever I wanted. Took me to the ballet, the opera, museum exhibitions. I was always surrounded by art. It's their fault I've become an actress. (Bar Paly)
People who leave Washington do so by way of the box... ballet or coffin. View quote
Claiborne Pell
'The Nutcracker' is the ballet that keeps on giving. View quote
David H. Koch
My mum took me to the ballet at three, and that was the only time I sat still, with jaw open, mesmerised. She brought me home, and I wouldn't stop dancing. View quote
Emma Rigby
The first dance performance I saw was Joffrey Ballet doing 'Billboards' to Prince. View quote
Kyle Abraham
I've been dancing all my life and studied at Joffrey Ballet when I was 13 and singing all my life. View quote
Melora Hardin
I love going to see the theatre whether it's a Broadway play or a Russian ballet company. View quote
Michael Ealy
When I was a child, I went to stage school three times a week in the evenings - singing, ballet, tap, modern and acting, and I loved it. View quote
Michelle Dockery
My grandmother had a Miss Margaret's School of Dance to teach tap and ballet to kids, but I never studied it. I was raised a Mormon and they're dancing fools. It's the only vice they have - dancing. View quote
Michelle Shocked
I'm so fair that I didn't go in the sun as a child. When all my friends were on the beach, I was going to ballet. The teachers there didn't like you going in the sun, so I never did. View quote
Miranda Otto
I did ballet and gymnastics, and then I started acting when I was eight - just doing amateur theater at a place called Oldham Theatre Workshop in my hometown. (Olivia Cooke)
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. View quote
Pixie Lott
My personal trainer is an ex-dancer so we do a lot of ballet and jazz. View quote
Rachel Stevens
The eternal and uneasy relationship between ballet and modern dance endures, but radically altered in tone and intensity. View quote
Robert Gottlieb
Ballet is like any other art form in that we all start out knowing nothing about it. View quote
Robert Gottlieb