Ballet Quotes - Page 12

I liked the structure of ballet.

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.

I really wanted to make it as a ballet dancer to make my mom proud. But it didnt happen.

A toe shoe is as eccentric as the ballerina who wears it: their marriage is a commitment.

A brand-new pair of toe shoes presents itself to us as an enemy with a will of its own that must be tamed.

I was very happy that I was as normal as possible before I went into serious dance.

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

So I'm studying ballet every day and really training so people will see me as a ballet dancer, which no one's seen before.

You realize you can get good at something, even though ballet almost felt like you could never be good enough. No matter how hard you worked, it was so hard to be a great dancer.

When I stopped doing ballet, I started training in the pool. I would do my barre exercises in the water, because that prevents injuries.

Lots of people make the stage and it can seem very violent and over the top, but it's not really. It's always a kind of gentle ballet.

I wanted to be a ballerina. I studied ballet for 19 years.

My mother danced; she loved the ballet.

I actually was a ballet dancer - I studied ballet from three until 13 - but like very seriously, that's what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a contemporary ballet dancer. I wanted to go to Juilliard.

The dance world is too small in lots of ways - it's too intense, it rattles around itself, and it needs exposing to other ideas.

Yo, dumbass. What do you think she’d be doing with them? Giving them ballet lessons? (Darling) Tell me again why I can’t kill him? (Hauk) You’re afraid of handling explosives. (Nykyrian) One day I’m going to get over that and when I do…(Hauk) I’ll wisely stop annoying you. (Darling)

I don't really dance for pleasure much." "Uh--so you, uh, usually dance professionally, or what?" Seb asked. "Yeah," said Nick. "The ballet is my passion.

If I didn't have kids, I would be at the theater or the ballet every single night of my life.

About, about, in reel and rout the death fires danced at night.

Culture in America and everywhere else comes from the suffering, from those who don't want the old ways. They want to bring in the new, whether it's the ballet, when it started, or Shakespeare.

Why be normal? What's the point?

Being alive is about playing to win. Being brain dead is when you play not to loose.

Both costume and fashion are about telling a story, except that in a ballet the story has already been written by the composer or the librettist.

My personal trainer is an ex-dancer so we do a lot of ballet and jazz.

Another friend began to say, "Well, Quentin has a problem of adjusting himself to society and he..." This sentence was never finished. The ballet teacher expostulated, "I don't agree. Quentin does exactly as he pleases. The rest of us have to adapt ourselves to him."