Top Ballet Quotes Collection
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Ballet has really helped me in every acting role. You have to be very disciplined, you have to be able to control your nerves and perform under pressure, and all those things you have to use in acting when you're on film or going for an audition.Collection: Ballet
I'm steel-toed boots in a ballet-slipper world.Collection: Ballet
There would never have been a British Ballet without Diaghilev. He had a wonderful influenceCollection: Ballet
A fine picture is but the image of nature; a finished ballet is nature herself.Collection: Ballet
The abuse of the best things is always detrimental.Collection: Ballet
If you wanna dance, a windshield wiper'll do it-all you need is a beat.Collection: Ballet
I realize how much ballet gave me, and because of ballet, I’m known as a graceful gymnast.Collection: Ballet
We must never forget that the dance is the cradle of Negro music.Collection: Ballet
Bel canto is to opera what pole-vaulting is to ballet.Collection: Ballet
Ballet is completely unnatural to the body, just being turned out... it's not the way your body is supposed to function, so you actually [...] train your body to be a different structure than you were born with.Collection: Ballet
Spectacular sporting events are bread & circuses. The Superbowl, for instance, is anything but "super". It is a Petri dish under the lens of mediaocrity, where surveillance of the spectators is just as mind numbing as the incomprehensible homo-erotic beefcake ballet being enacted on the pitchCollection: Ballet
Why be normal? What's the point?Collection: Ballet
Bravura has nothing to do with technique. It's all about timing and oozing life.Collection: Ballet
A genius is a talented person who does his homework.Collection: Ballet
You get more negative reactions than positive reactions as you go through life, and the big lesson is nobody counts you out but yourself...I never have; I never will.Collection: Ballet
Do not brood. It makes the moment you are living in unavailable for learning and life.Collection: Ballet
I know a lot of choreographers prefer to do abstract dance and not be bothered with a story, but even when I'm asked to do classical ballet or a modern piece, I still want to tell a story.Collection: Ballet
Ballet teaches you how to hold yourself.Collection: Ballet
As I got older, I started to do it more and more, and I wanted to learn all of the different types. I grew up doing modern, so I wanted to learn ballet, tap, jazz, and African - just everything.Collection: Ballet
We waltzed Lisztlessly.Collection: Ballet
I was completely broke, so I started saying yes to everything. I said yes to a woman who approached me about shooting the Dracula ballet, even though I felt like I was probably going to sabotage it.Collection: Ballet
I have too much respect for ballet to dare practice it. I did ask ballerina Megan LeCrone to teach me jetés. She said that was impossible but did observe that I have great feet.Collection: Ballet
I had rather be a kitten and cry mew Than one of these same metre ballet-mongers.Collection: Ballet
Training for the ballet, Potter?" yelled Malfoy.Collection: Ballet
I need a big wave to really excel. The smaller stuff is a bit like...ballet for me.Collection: Ballet
Ballet is the body rising. Ballet is ceremonial and hieratic. Its disdain for the commonplace material world is the source of its authority and glamour.Collection: Ballet
Never excuse yourself.Collection: Ballet
Americans will be amazed to find ho many of the modern dance steps are relics of the African heritage.Collection: Ballet
I got the part [in Into the Forest], I started taking ballet again to try to regain my strength back. I actually love that it was changed to Crystal Pite's modern dance. And I wouldn't even really call it modern dance because it feels like it's in its own genre.Collection: Ballet
The state of least excitation of consciousness is the field of all possibilities.Collection: Ballet
In ballet, I felt that no matter how good I was, if I didn't have the right body type or if I didn't fit a certain mold there was nothing I could do.Collection: Ballet
He dances well to whom Fortune pipes.Collection: Ballet
Excellent! I will still be in time for the ballet!Collection: Ballet
When I was nine, I started doing ballet. That's when I knew that I was down to keep doing it.Collection: Ballet
I want to share the ballet world with everyone.Collection: Ballet
The hardest thing that I'll ever do, is ballet. Because you are either good or bad.Collection: Ballet
Going on stage and doing ballet, for the first time, was even more verification of, "This is what I'm meant to do. This is what I'm going to do. I'm going to make it somehow."Collection: Ballet
In a ballet company, you're trying to create unison and uniform when you're in a cour de ballet.Collection: Ballet
Physical fears change and shift depending on the role and depending on the mindset I'm in.Collection: Ballet
Ballet is always about the realm of possibilities, the realm of what the human body can do, what the human spirit can do. And it's about listening, it's about listening to remarkable music and how we respond to that.Collection: Ballet
Cricket is first and foremost a dramatic spectacle. It belongs with theatre, ballet, opera and the dance.Collection: Ballet
Ballet will speak for itself. About itself.Collection: Ballet
He was a punk, she did ballet. What more can I say.Collection: Ballet