Famous Quotes & Sayings

Guy Maddin

I was completely broke, so I started saying yes to everything. I said yes to a woman who approached me about shooting the Dracula ballet, even though I felt like I was probably going to sabotage it.

Rangers have a team of highly-paid ballet dancers these days. The majority of them are already financially secure for life, yet they are not prepared to give anything in return. They are a disgrace.

Mila Kunis

The thing about ballet that I never knew about is that it's one of the most excruciating sports that I've ever been a part of. I say sports because they train constantly, every single day.

I took ballet for a while and it wasn't like, jumpy enough for me.

Henry Ward Beecher

Never excuse yourself.

Ned Rorem

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

Mark Morris

If nobody comes to your shows, then it's modern dance. If everybody comes to your shows and no one likes it, is that ballet? I don't know.

James Buckley

All the music from the ballet I found to be expressive and easy on the ears. I like variety . . . I am a child of too much television.

George Balanchine

Ballet will speak for itself. About itself.

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.

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

The last time I had to make a career decision, I was 17. I could have gone to Ballet Theatre or National Ballet of Canada. There were options. But as I became exposed to the Robbins repertoire, I realized that there was a living genius in the house.

Joseph Altuzarra

Ballet teaches you how to hold yourself.

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.

John Ray

He dances well to whom Fortune pipes.

Thomas A. Edison

A genius is a talented person who does his homework.

Maureen O'Hara

I grew up in the theater and danced ballet atrociously.

John Guare

Ballet is always about the realm of possibilities, the realm of what the human body can do, what the human spirit can do. And it's about listening, it's about listening to remarkable music and how we respond to that.

Karen Kain

In the world of classical ballet there are only a handful of story ballets, so getting a new one is cause for excitement.

Karlie Kloss

Ballet really taught me so much about the power of movement.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

The state of least excitation of consciousness is the field of all possibilities.

Vanessa Carlton

The music industry is so easy compared to the ballet world

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.

Wendy Whelan

I liked the structure of ballet.

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.

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.

Zoe Saldana

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