Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ned Rorem

Bel canto is to opera what pole-vaulting is to ballet.

Neve Campbell

Dance is very, very old. With Louis XIV at Versailles is where ballet started.

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.

Bravura has nothing to do with technique. It's all about timing and oozing life.

Paul Robeson

Americans will be amazed to find ho many of the modern dance steps are relics of the African heritage.

J. K. Rowling

Training for the ballet, Potter?" yelled Malfoy.

Michelle Trachtenberg

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.

Ninette de Valois

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

Ninette de Valois

Classical ballet will never die.

Nastassja Kinski

I used to dance when I was younger - ballet and modern dance.

Marina Abramovic

With classical ballet you are literally injuring yourself.

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.

Maureen O'Hara

I grew up in the theater and danced ballet atrociously.

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.

Dominic Cooper

I had a really creative teacher at primary school. He used to get us doing things such as singing Spandau Ballet in drag in the choir, and I remember loving it.

Joseph Altuzarra

Ballet teaches you how to hold yourself.

John Ray

He dances well to whom Fortune pipes.

George Balanchine

Ballet will speak for itself. About itself.

This is nice a break from the full-length ballets we do throughout the year, changing it up a bit into a medley affair.

Robert Gottlieb

You can usually tell how healthy a ballet company is by the degree of your interest in the middle ranks of the dancers - the not-yet stars, the up-and-comers.

Suzanne Farrell

I like dramatic ballets, particularly if they're ballets in which I have a chance to go from one extreme of style or characterization to another.

Vanessa Carlton

The music industry is so easy compared to the ballet world

Richard Saunders

Why be normal? What's the point?

Robert Caro

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

Robert Caro

At the ballet, you really feel like you're in the presence of something outside the rest of your life. Higher than the rest of your life.

Wendy Whelan

I liked the structure of ballet.

Thomas A. Edison

A genius is a talented person who does his homework.

Suzanne Farrell

I didn't care too much for ballet, because you had to be more disciplined, and you sort of looked like everyone else. It required a certain kind of conformity that I didn't feel like I wanted to do.

Suzanne Farrell

Do not brood. It makes the moment you are living in unavailable for learning and life.

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.

Twyla Tharp

The ballet needs to tell its own story in such a way it can be received without having to be translated into language.

Zoe Saldana

I had to quit ballet because it felt like a part of me was dying inside.