Quotes on Ballet

The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener.

Author: George Balanchine

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.

Author: George Balanchine

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

Author: Ritchie Blackmore

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

Author: Deborah Bull

Dancing is a tough career, but I'm glad I spent it at the Royal Ballet.

Author: Deborah Bull

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.

Author: Neve Campbell

I never went to a ballet until I was 45 years old. I don't know why.

Author: Robert Caro

Everything seems to be going faster and faster. It's really harder to create something that endures. The New York City Ballet has succeeded in doing that.

Author: Robert Caro

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

Author: Robert Caro

I deliberately made an effort not to become an expert on the ballet.

Author: Robert Caro

Sometimes during a ballet I'll look around and see all these rows of intent faces, concentrating on this beautiful thing up on the stage.

Author: Robert Caro

I toured the Middle Eastern countries with the ballet.

Author: Leslie Caron

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.

Author: Sasha Cohen

It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style.

Author: Quentin Crisp

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

Author: Janice Dickinson

The particular ballet was not so important as the fact that I was physically healthy, and capable of getting out there and dancing as often as possible.

Author: Suzanne Farrell

In fact, ballet companies did not exist in the Midwest when I was a child.

Author: 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.

Author: Suzanne Farrell

I was a ballet dancer and that kind of bled into musical theater. I was constantly in rehearsal for one thing or another.

Author: Jennifer Garner

I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner.

Author: John Guare

I think that every year that the New York City Ballet is alive is worthy of celebration. Because otherwise the terrible thing is just that we take it for granted.

Author: John Guare

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

Author: John Guare

And what would be great numbers in a Broadway show are now on stage of the New York City Ballet.

Author: John Guare

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

Author: Neil Harris

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

Author: Angelina Jolie

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

Author: Elle Macpherson

Ballet-girls have a bad reputation, which is in most cases well deserved.

Author: Henry Mayhew

In the Thirties, when I was in New York, I did the first surrealistic ballet in a show of mine.

Author: Vincente Minnelli

I grew up in the theater and danced ballet atrociously.

Author: Maureen O'Hara

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.

Author: Andy Rooney

I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle. It wasn't mine.

Author: Rita Rudner

I wanted to be a ballet teacher.

Author: Jaclyn Smith

You can't drink on an eight hour flight, pass out, and then go onstage... well you can, but then you're Spandau Ballet.

Author: Robert Smith

I went to ballet school for nine years, and there was an agent for the whole school who happened to be there visiting one of the performances. She suggested an audition.

Author: Sarah Sutton

I am both proud and honored to be on the Board of Directors for the Texas Ballet Theater.

Author: Janine Turner

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

Author: Ninette Valois

Classical ballet will never die.

Author: Ninette Valois

Wrestling is ballet with violence.

Author: Jesse Ventura