Ballet Dancer Quotes - Page 4

• That kind of friendship doesn't just materialize at the end of the rainbow one morning in a soft-focus Hollywood haze. For it to last this long, and at such close quarters, some serious work had gone into it. Ask any ice-skater or ballet dancer or show jumper, anyone who lives by beautiful moving things: nothing takes as much work as effortlessness.

  Tana French

  Beautiful, Morning, Moving

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• I began dancing when I was 7 years old. I was told that I had the perfect ballet dancers body and had these crazy high arches in my feet that resulted in an amazing point. Ballet was very disciplined and, frankly, a little boring, so I eventually transitioned to gymnastics. I loved that, although I never reached a competitive level.

  Catherine Mary Stewart

  Crazy, Gymnastics, Years

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• I was a ballet dancer for so long, but when I realized I had reached my limit and that I couldn't go any further I knew I wanted to pursue acting. That's one thing you don't use as a dancer - your voice. And the one thing I use most in my life is my voice so it's wonderful to get to express myself artistically through the biggest instrument I use.

  Zoe Saldana

  Voice, Long, Dancer

  "Blu-Ray/DVD Essentials: Zoe Saldana on 'Guardians of the Galaxy'". Interview with Earl Dittman, www.digitaljournal.com. December 07, 2014.

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• I think people are people and, if their feelings are truthful, they can connect. It doesn't matter if you're an aging, 50-something wrestler at the end of his career, or an ambitious, 20-something ballet dancer.

  Darren Aronofsky

  Thinking, Careers, People

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 28, 2010.

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• I feel like people used to leave their homes and go to their local theatre, and they used to watch ballet dancers and musical theatre performers and tap dancers and orchestras and dog acts. You had to leave your home, be in the presence of other people, know how to behave, and enjoy the human being whose beating heart was in front of you.

  Laura Benanti

  Dog, Home, Heart

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Making the ballet really taught me how to get things moving. Ballet dancers don't stand still.

  Guy Maddin

  Moving, Dancer, Ballet

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• In order to dance professionally, you have to start at a young age. No matter what, your muscle structure and your bones have to be groomed from a very young age. Nobody wakes up at 17 and decides to become a ballet dancer. I'm saying that and someone's going to be born tomorrow who decides to do that and I'm going to have my foot in my mouth.

  Joan Chen

  Order, Feet, Dancer

  Source: collider.com

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• Swan Lake is the most difficult thing to portray for a female ballet dancer; it really requires such specific qualities of articulation, agility, strength, and the arm work is something that takes a lot of training.

  Benjamin Millepied

  Lakes, Swans, Dancer

  "Black Swan Choreographer Benjamin Millepied on Teaching Natalie Portman to Have Swan Arms" by Rebecca Milzoff, www.vulture.com. December 3, 2010.

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• The cat crossed the street daintily, pointing his feet like a ballet dancer, lifting them high as if his feet were too good for the pavement.

  Vera Caspary

  Cat, Feet, Dancer

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• I trained as a ballet dancer - well, I started when I was two and a half, and was serious about it from when I was eight until I was 18.

  Jessica Brown Findlay

  Two, Eight, Dancer

  "Jessica Brown Findlay's Sybil Liberties". Interview with Esther Zuckerman, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 12, 2012.

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• My life isn’t theories and formulae. It’s part instinct, part common sense. Logic is as good a word as any, and I’ve absorbed what logic I have from everything and everyone… from my mother, from training as a ballet dancer, from Vogue magazine, from the laws of life and health and nature.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Life, Mother, Vogue Magazine

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• The domain of the ballet dancer is not earth but air.

  Lincoln Kirstein

  Air, Dancer, Ballet

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• I was always nervous about coming back to Australia which was a complete hangover of the days when I left when ballet was not accepted, when I was not accepted, when I was considered a freak for wanting to be a ballet dancer. And, to be 100% honest, I rather dreaded coming back.

  Robert Helpmann

  Art, Hangover, Australia

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I've never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.

  Bebe Neuwirth

  Dancer, Ballet, Training

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• Ballet dancers are a self-chosen elite. To survive and surmount years of disciplinary preparation and seasons of even more arduous performance requires rigid determination and almost mindless self-abnegation. One other factor is difficult to predetermine: without a certain admixture of hysteria - sometimes masking as self-obsession, sometimes even counterfeiting incipient madness - performers, at once acrobats, artists, and animals, make little public impression.

  Lincoln Kirstein

  Dance, Determination, Artist

  Lincoln Kirstein (1970). “Four Centuries of Ballet: Fifty Masterworks”, p.10, Courier Corporation

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• I've usually never felt comfortable shooting until things were kind of claustrophobic, but ballet dancers need a lot of space, so the sets that I designed had to be big. Normally, I'd design a kitchen that was half the size of a normal kitchen, just to make everything feel kind of womb-like, but the kitchen in a ballet would have to be like 100 feet wide and just as long.

  Guy Maddin

  Feet, Space, Long

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list -- the common seed within which all these fabulous beings slumber in embryo is taxation.

  Karl Marx

  Museums, Civilization, Dancer

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1976). “Collected works”

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• I had danced with Janet Jackson and P. Diddy so I had done a bunch of hip hop. Really and truly my roots are in modern and ballet but, professionally, that's not really out there any more, unfortunately, so these artists aren't really having a lot of ballet dancers behind them so I had to learn hip hop really quick.

  Jenna Dewan

  Artist, Roots, Hip Hop

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The discipline that ballet requires is obsessive. And only the ones who dedicate their whole lives are able to make it. Your toenails fall off and you peel them away and then you're asked to dance again and keep smiling. I wanted to become a professional ballet dancer.

  Penelope Cruz

  Fall, Discipline, Dancer

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was a ballet dancer. I did other kinds of dance but ballet was my great love. But then it became clear, when I was 12, that my body wasn't going to be right. That's always a heartbreaking moment because there's nothing you can do about that. Your body is just not right. You don't have enough turnout. You're not built properly.

  Greta Gerwig

  Great Love, Dancer, Ballet

  Source: collider.com

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• I dreamt of becoming a ballet dancer. I studied with the Royal Academy of London for 11 years, and that did not pan out, but my love for being on stage was born there. And then, I actually went to drama school in Paris, France. That's where it first started.

  Diane Kruger

  Drama, School, Years

  "Diane Kruger Talks THE BRIDGE, Playing a Cop with Asperger’s, Working with Co-Star Demian Bichir, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 10, 2013.

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• I grew up with classical music when I was a ballet dancer. Now when I have to prepare an emotional scene, to cry or whatever, I listen to sonatas. Vivaldi and stuff. It's just beautiful to me.

  Diane Kruger

  Beautiful, Emotional, Ballet Class

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• So I'm studying ballet every day and really training so people will see me as a ballet dancer, which no one's seen before.

  Sutton Foster

  People, Dancer, Ballet

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• I was embarrassed that I even wanted to become an actress because coming from L.A., with two older sisters in the business and a mom who had been a ballet dancer, it was such a cliche.

  Elizabeth Olsen

  Mom, Two, Dancer

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You...are...a...fridge...with wings,' Fang ground out, punching an Eraser hard with every word. 'We're...freaking...ballet...dancers.

  James Patterson

  Wings, Dancer, Ballet

  James Patterson (2007). “The Angel Experiment”, Little, Brown and Company

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