Ballet Quotes

My personal trainer is an ex-dancer so we do a lot of ballet and jazz.

In fact, ballet companies did not exist in the Midwest when I was a child.

When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire.

I grew up in the theater and danced ballet atrociously.

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.

I went to art school when I was little. I took ballet lessons. I played a little kick ball. I was sort of into everything because I had too much energy and I didn't know where to put it. When I was a preteen, I got into singing, and became really obsessed with it.

All the New York City Ballet does is hit beautiful home runs.

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.

My Mom is a ballet director, so I had this idea in me that classical training is the best foundation for anything you do, so I wanted to get a classical background and voice.

I do take class because I still dance, and yes, I do slip into class with the Royal Ballet from time to time.

I'm enamored with the art world. Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic, there's a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any kind of music. It can't exist without it.

I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle. It wasn't mine.

Being a former dancer, classical dancer, it informed me as a human being just in terms of the grace I guess. Ballet is a very graceful form of art. You also become very aware of your body and your mind and your body is working in conjunction. That kind of helps you in acting as well. It's not only using your mind, it's like making your mind communicate this character into your body so that you can bring it to life and physicalize it.

I wanted to be a ballet teacher.

Since I was a child I've loved going to the opera, theatre and ballet.

Some Russian ballet master woman said there's no culture in America, but if you look you can find interesting stuff in this country, don't you think?

However, the moral center of New York City, I believe, is the New York City Ballet.

I started taking ballet lessons when I was three and a half and I still take dance classes.

Wrestling is ballet with violence.

I copied my brother. He was a natural dancer. Graceful. People always asked did we study ballet. We never did.

I never went to a ballet until I was 45 years old. I don't know why.

I used to dance when I was younger - ballet and modern dance.

If I didn't have kids, I would be at the theater or the ballet every single night of my life.

I grew up studying ballet; I grew up honing my craft.

I wanted to give people - which is fairly bizarre considering my whole life is contemporary dance really - I wanted to give people a really fulfilling sense that they had seen a white classical ballet - in a very pure form.

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.