Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Hallberg

Ballet is certainly appreciated in New York, but it has been a part of the Russian culture, history and heritage for hundreds of years, so it's much more instilled in the Russian blood.

Robert Gottlieb

Ballet Hispanico is a mixture of ethnic, ballet, social, jazz - you name it, it's doing it. The company has been going strong for more than 20 years, and you can see why: It may not be refined, but it's full of beans.

Robert Gottlieb

Ballet companies have their ups and downs, just like the rest of us.

They said skating would ruin my ballet form. It wasn't hard for me to choose. I'm very creative and in skating I can make up my own stuff.

There really is a perception that if you know the ballet studies, you know Degas. Actually, nothing could be further from the truth. Like Picasso, Degas was a relentless innovator in everything he did -- in drawing, in printmaking, in photography.

The big thing about the season is the festival. I'm excited because it's going to include many parts of the community, for example Donald Byrd's Spectrum Dance, and Oregon Ballet Theater.

You don?t see many full-length ballets being made like this, because the risk is so great.

Elle Fanning

The hardest thing that I'll ever do, is ballet. Because you are either good or bad.

Jennifer Ellison

Ballet is such a disciplined craft and it has given me a good grounding.

Another fascinating aspect, ... is that it can be a completely different ballet depending on who's dancing it. It's so simple but it's so revealing, and it can tell such completely different stories.

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.

Melora Hardin

I've been dancing all my life and studied at Joffrey Ballet when I was 13 and singing all my life.

Terry Teachout

What is true of ballet is no less true of the other lively arts. Change is built into their natures. You watch a performance, and then... it's gone.

Benjamin Millepied

Most dancers have no awareness of how they look; half of them think they're fat. There is anorexia in the ballet world; there are those things.

Judy Greer

I took ballet dancing forever, and there was a natural transition into acting.

At 7, I was at the barre and dancing at folk festivals. Then I was a student with the ballet school of the Metropolitan Opera.

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.

Nastassja Kinski

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

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.

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.

Paul Robeson

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

Sami Gayle

If you have to tell a story without speaking, it's sort of like - I come from a dance background, so it's like a ballet where you have to tell a story with just your body. I think that's really interesting to have to tell a story with just your face and your mannerisms, and I'd like to tap into that world.

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.

It was a role that Mr. Fosse would have gravitated toward, a role he would have done if he was a ballet dancer. He related to it because it was dance used as theater.

It's great for ballet aficionados, who know what's supposed to happen.

It's probably one of the biggest cornerstones in the classical repertoire. It represents a standard of classical ballet that we still hold high.

Instead of having a completely Western ballet, we have a ballet with elements of Indian dance.

Larry Klayman

In the ballet world, obviously, people are small-breasted. On Broadway, what happened should be an attribute.

Rose McIver

If you're small and can speak clearly and you're a cute kid, that's the craft, really. The whole child actor thing can be dangerous sometimes. Other kids were taking piano lessons; I did ballet and acting.

I had been wanting to do a short ballet to Schumann's work for so long and we were finally able to get a great pianist, everything seemed to fall into place.

Will Kemp

Being in a place like the Royal Ballet School and part of an environment where there is so much discipline, where everyone works so hard, it just completely occupies your life. You literally live it and breath it every single day; it becomes who you are. And that, I think, is very good preparation for really anything you do in life.

Dorothy Hamill

I didn't study dance. I had some ballet lessons because I needed it for posture and for my arms, mostly. My skating coach said I really needed it, from the belly button up, as opposed to the footwork. In skating, the shoes don't move.