Ballet Quotes - Page 27

• My mom and dad would take me all over. One night we'd be at the Apollo watching James Brown, and then I'd be at the Joffrey Ballet. It was that kind of scene.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Mom, Dad, Night

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

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• I was a ballerina for a good 12 years. When I was 15 I had to stop. It wasn't a choice, it was an injury that prevented me from going forward in ballet unfortunately. Well, fortunately because I wouldn't be doing what I am doing now if that had not happened.

  Kiesza

  Years, Choices, Injury

  Source: chicago.gopride.com

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• Ballet Beautiful is really good for me, and it doesn't hurt my back, and it's a way for me to kind of get my heart moving and tone every part of my body.

  Erin Heatherton

  Beautiful, Hurt, Moving

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• Lesbians, homosexuals, masochism, sadism are not perversions. Actually, there are only two perversions: hockey on grass and ballet on ice.

  Faina Ranevskaya

  Hockey, Ice, Two

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• Dance exists first on this primordial level, not on an intellectual plane (even though it requires skill and intelligence). Its inmost substance cannot be reasoned, only experienced.

  Sondra Horton Fraleigh

  Skills, Intellectual, Substance

  Sondra Horton Fraleigh (1996). “Dance and the Lived Body: A Descriptive Aesthetics”, p.53, University of Pittsburgh Pre

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• I am not an educated person. I didn't come up through a ballet company. I came up through burlesque. So I have a lot of inferiority feelings concerning my own lack of education, my entry into show business. I'm not a Baryshnikov. I'm not a Nureyev. I came up in vaudeville. Strippers. So I've always had these feelings. But I think they've also helped me.

  Bob Fosse

  Thinking, Feelings, Vaudeville

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• I used to love ballet and I did it really, really intensely. But it came so much about achieving physical perfection, which when I was 14 was a big deal.

  Mia Wasikowska

  Perfection, Achieve, Used

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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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.

  Mia Wasikowska

  Acting, Roles, Nerves

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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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, Taught

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I actually came to New York when I was 12 and did ballet school for a little while. I was being groomed to be professional, and a lot of the professors and teachers there were drawn to me and thought that I could become a professional ballerina.

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Teacher, New York, School

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

  Body Types, Mold, Matter

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I wanted to be a dancer from when I was about nine or something like that and started ballet. I used to really like it and got into it and did it full time for a couple of years. I did a lot of ballet but I traded that in for acting when I was about 15.

  Mia Wasikowska

  Couple, Years, Dancer

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• In a ballet company, you're trying to create unison and uniform when you're in a cour de ballet.

  Misty Copeland

  Trying, Uniforms, Unison

  "Misty Copeland Seeks To Inspire Other African-American Dancers". Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. July 1, 2015.

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• I love dancing, actually. My mother taught children's dance, ballet, tap, jazz...I'm very flexible.

  Michael Angarano

  Mother, Children, Dancing

  Source: www.elle.com

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• My mom always wanted me be a ballerina, and I was just adamant that I wanted to be a track star. I wanted nothing to do with ballet.

  Emayatzy E. Corinealdi

  Mom, Stars, Track

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Do ballet and play football. Sing and dance. Laugh and cry.

  Michael Skolnik

  Football, Play, Laughing

  "Global Grind Editor Michael Skolnik". Interview with Rachel P. Goldstein, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• 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

  Trying, Forests, Crystals

  Source: collider.com

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• There were some parts of the film [Swiss Army Man] that the Daniels [Kwan and Scheinert] really wanted to look as elegant as a piece of ballet. As Hank and Manny go on in the story, they get better and better at being with each other and more and more adept - Hank knows more and more what Manny's going to need at any given point, and having that choreography helps a bit.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Army, Men, Get Better

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• My biggest downfall is my inner voice. Growing up as a dancer makes you very judgemental with yourself. You learn to look at yourself in the mirror and you criticise every line in your body. It's never perfect. I grew up with this because I had ballet every day in school.

  Carmen Electra

  Growing Up, School, Mirrors

  "Scary Movie 4 - Carmen Electra interview". www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• When I would create a dance, I wouldn't have the luxury that ballet people do when they take a piece of music and impose a dance upon it. What we did in motion pictures was have a song and within that song try to elaborate. My usual method was to do what a writer does: get a plot.

  Gene Kelly

  Song, Luxury, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We are going to set up a branch of the St Petersburg Mariinsky Theatre here [on the Far Easter]. We are also planning to open local branches of the Hermitage Museum and the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet.

  Vladimir Putin

  Easter, Museums, Theatre

  Source: thesaker.is

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• If the simple positions of ballet are demonstrated straight on, they seem quite dull and lifeless, but when put on a diagonal, they begin to take on all kinds of possibilities.

  Lucinda Childs

  Simple, Dull, Kind

  Source: www.kcet.org

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• I grew up as a dancer, and music and dance are so closely tied, that in ballet class you're listening to all this classical music, and in modern class you're working with a live drummer. It was something that always made me feel really comfortable and I've had a connection to since the beginning.

  Jillian Hervey

  Ballet Class, Dancer, Listening

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• Wrestling used to be interesting. There was a bit of sham involved, of course, but there was some real wrestling involved. They're just characters now. It's unrecognizable. There's no fighting in American bloody wrestling. They just yell at each other and jump around like overweight ballet dancers.

  Shane MacGowan

  Real, Character, Wrestling

  Source: shanemacgowan.com

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• Theatre can transform a child's life, just as an early cultural experience whether with opera, ballet, music or art is a wonderful thing because it opens the door to a life-long experience, a life-long enjoyment.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Art, Children, Doors

  Source: www.altblackpool.co.uk

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