Top Ballet Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Ballet quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Mia Wasikowska
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.
- Mia Wasikowska
Collection: Ballet
Image of Richard Kadrey
I'm steel-toed boots in a ballet-slipper world.
- Richard Kadrey
Collection: Ballet
Image of Ninette de Valois
There would never have been a British Ballet without Diaghilev. He had a wonderful influence
- Ninette de Valois
Collection: Ballet
Image of Jean-Georges Noverre
A fine picture is but the image of nature; a finished ballet is nature herself.
- Jean-Georges Noverre
Collection: Ballet
Image of Jean-Georges Noverre
The abuse of the best things is always detrimental.
- Jean-Georges Noverre
Collection: Ballet
Image of Artie Shaw
If you wanna dance, a windshield wiper'll do it-all you need is a beat.
- Artie Shaw
Collection: Ballet
Image of Svetlana Boginskaya
I realize how much ballet gave me, and because of ballet, I’m known as a graceful gymnast.
- Svetlana Boginskaya
Collection: Ballet
Image of Alain LeRoy Locke
We must never forget that the dance is the cradle of Negro music.
- Alain LeRoy Locke
Collection: Ballet
Image of Ned Rorem
Bel canto is to opera what pole-vaulting is to ballet.
- Ned Rorem
Collection: Ballet
Image of Neve Campbell
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.
- Neve Campbell
Collection: Ballet
Image of Dean Cavanagh
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 pitch
- Dean Cavanagh
Collection: Ballet
Image of Richard Saunders
Why be normal? What's the point?
- Richard Saunders
Collection: Ballet
Image of Kevin McKenzie
Bravura has nothing to do with technique. It's all about timing and oozing life.
- Kevin McKenzie
Collection: Ballet
Image of Thomas A. Edison
A genius is a talented person who does his homework.
- Thomas A. Edison
Collection: Ballet
Image of Buddy Ebsen
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.
- Buddy Ebsen
Collection: Ballet
Image of Suzanne Farrell
Do not brood. It makes the moment you are living in unavailable for learning and life.
- Suzanne Farrell
Collection: Ballet
Image of Susan Stroman
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.
- Susan Stroman
Collection: Ballet
Image of Joseph Altuzarra
Ballet teaches you how to hold yourself.
- Joseph Altuzarra
Collection: Ballet
Image of Jillian Hervey
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.
- Jillian Hervey
Collection: Ballet
Image of Karen Elizabeth Gordon
We waltzed Lisztlessly.
- Karen Elizabeth Gordon
Collection: Ballet
Image of Guy Maddin
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.
- Guy Maddin
Collection: Ballet
Image of Elad Lassry
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.
- Elad Lassry
Collection: Ballet
Image of William Shakespeare
I had rather be a kitten and cry mew Than one of these same metre ballet-mongers.
- William Shakespeare
Collection: Ballet
Image of J. K. Rowling
Training for the ballet, Potter?" yelled Malfoy.
- J. K. Rowling
Collection: Ballet
Image of Laird Hamilton
I need a big wave to really excel. The smaller stuff is a bit like...ballet for me.
- Laird Hamilton
Collection: Ballet
Image of Camille Paglia
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.
- Camille Paglia
Collection: Ballet
Image of Henry Ward Beecher
Never excuse yourself.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Collection: Ballet
Image of Paul Robeson
Americans will be amazed to find ho many of the modern dance steps are relics of the African heritage.
- Paul Robeson
Collection: Ballet
Image of Evan Rachel Wood
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.
- Evan Rachel Wood
Collection: Ballet
Image of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
The state of least excitation of consciousness is the field of all possibilities.
- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Collection: Ballet
Image of Mary Elizabeth Winstead
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.
- Mary Elizabeth Winstead
Collection: Ballet
Image of John Ray
He dances well to whom Fortune pipes.
- John Ray
Collection: Ballet
Image of Jose Raul Capablanca
Excellent! I will still be in time for the ballet!
- Jose Raul Capablanca
Collection: Ballet
Image of Ansel Elgort
When I was nine, I started doing ballet. That's when I knew that I was down to keep doing it.
- Ansel Elgort
Collection: Ballet
Image of Misty Copeland
I want to share the ballet world with everyone.
- Misty Copeland
Collection: Ballet
Image of Elle Fanning
The hardest thing that I'll ever do, is ballet. Because you are either good or bad.
- Elle Fanning
Collection: Ballet
Image of Misty Copeland
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."
- Misty Copeland
Collection: Ballet
Image of Misty Copeland
In a ballet company, you're trying to create unison and uniform when you're in a cour de ballet.
- Misty Copeland
Collection: Ballet
Image of Misty Copeland
Physical fears change and shift depending on the role and depending on the mindset I'm in.
- Misty Copeland
Collection: Ballet
Image of John Guare
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.
- John Guare
Collection: Ballet
Image of C. L. R. James
Cricket is first and foremost a dramatic spectacle. It belongs with theatre, ballet, opera and the dance.
- C. L. R. James
Collection: Ballet
Image of George Balanchine
Ballet will speak for itself. About itself.
- George Balanchine
Collection: Ballet
Image of Avril Lavigne
He was a punk, she did ballet. What more can I say.
- Avril Lavigne
Collection: Ballet