Ballet Quotes - Page 2

• I wanted so badly to study ballet, but it was really all about wearing the tutu.

  Elle Macpherson

  Firefighter, Study, Wanted

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• This art, born of genius and good taste, can become beautiful and varied to an infinite degree.

  Jean-Georges Noverre

  Beautiful, Art, Degrees

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• Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.

  Martha Graham

  Inspirational, Motivational, Dance

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• Ballet: men wearing pants so tight that you can tell what religion they are.

  Robin Williams

  Dance, Men, Pants

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

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

  Angelina Jolie

  Girl, Ghouls, Dancer

  "Career Watch: Has ‘Maleficent’ Restored Angelina Jolie’s Box Office Mojo?" by Susan Wloszczyna, www.indiewire.com. June 2, 2014.

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• Master technique and then forget about it and be natural.

  Anna Pavlova

  Dance, Dancing, Technique

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

  Robert Caro

  Want, Mystery

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• On with the dance! let joy be unconfin'd No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the Glowing Hours with Flying feet

  Lord Byron

  Life, Success, Dance

  George Gordon Byron, “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: A Romaunt. Canto Iii.”

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• 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.

  Andy Rooney

  Sexy, Hurt, Gymnastics

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• I've got no plans to be a ballet dancer at the moment.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Dancer, Moments, Plans

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

  John Guare

  Beautiful, Running, New York

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

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Dance, Successful, Important

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• You increase muscle bulk by training against resistance. For example, weights. And in ballet, this isn't the case.

  Deborah Bull

  Training, Example, Weight

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

  John Guare

  New York, Believe, Cities

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• 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.

  Suzanne Farrell

  Thinking, Hands, Ballet Class

  "Ballerina of the Century". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. December 16, 1990.

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• 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.

  William Kempe

  Eight, Years, Dancer

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• I skate about 15 to 20 hours a week and also incorporate a lot of off-ice training. I take ballet and Pilates classes and lift weights with my physical therapist when I'm not on the ice.

  Sasha Cohen

  Sports, Ice, Class

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• It was something I was more interested in myself. When I went to see my sister dance at ballet, I was really into costumes and the arts, and my family was also supportive of whatever me and my sister wanted to do. I would say I pushed myself the most to be into design.

  Christian Siriano

  Art, Design, Supportive

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• 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.

  Michelle Trachtenberg

  Ballet Class, Practice, Two

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

  Ritchie Blackmore

  Fall, Knowing, Dancer

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• There might've been wires, but I have this ability to make myself light. Well you know what, in ballet, when you kind of lift yourself here, it's all up in the head.

  Albert Finney

  Light, Wire, Might

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• The moment the curtain rose on that first ballet, I knew something wonderful and new had come into my life. I can still see the first scene. The ballet was Divertimento No. 15

  Robert Caro

  Rose, Firsts, Wonderful

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• I took several years of dance lessons that included ballet, tap and jazz. They helped a great deal with body control, balance, a sense of rhythm, and timing.

  Lynn Swann

  Sports, Years, Balance

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

  Ninette de Valois

  Influence, Wonderful, British

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

  Janice Dickinson

  Crafts, Study, Grew Up

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