Ballet Quotes

Ballet is such a disciplined craft and it has given me a good grounding.

In the Thirties, when I was in New York, I did the first surrealistic ballet in a show of mine.

Figure skating is an unlikely Olympic event but its good television. It's sort of a combination of gymnastics and ballet. A little sexy too which doesn't hurt.

I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner.

There would never have been a British Ballet without Diaghilev. He had a wonderful influence.

You can't drink on an eight hour flight, pass out, and then go onstage... well you can, but then you're Spandau Ballet.

If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts.

The ballet embodies the notes of music. And sometimes you almost feel like you can see the notes dance up there on the stage.

Pilates is my favorite core strengthener. I do it three or four times a week. With all the strengthening and lengthening, it's like ballet. Plus, you get to do it lying down!

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.

People who leave Washington do so by way of the box... ballet or coffin.

The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener.

Ballet is sort of a mystery to me. And I don't want to unravel that mystery.

One of the few things in dance to match the Royal Ballet's curtain calls is the Royal Ballet's dancing.

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.

You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up.

My background is somewhat unusual, as I trained to be a ballet dancer. I worked in the theatre for eight or nine years as a contemporary dancer. But as an actor one does read Shakespeare and does try to learn the classics.

There's nothing like the force and challenge of a new ballet to galvanize everyone involved in bringing it to life.

In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms.

I am both proud and honored to be on the Board of Directors for the Texas Ballet Theater.

I was serious about ballet for a long time, but my mom got me into tap and jazz and modern and hip-hop, and I was one of those over-lessoned children.

I toured the Middle Eastern countries with the ballet.

The particular ballet was not so important as the fact that I was physically healthy, and capable of getting out there and dancing as often as possible.

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.

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.

Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important.