Ballet Quotes - Page 9

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

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

All ballet, all reading, all music. That was my world, my inner world.

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

Clearly, the pleasures wines afford are transitory - but so are those of the ballet, or of a musical performance. Wine is inspiring and adds greatly to the joy of living.

Going on stage and doing ballet, for the first time, was even more verification of, "This is what I'm meant to do. This is what I'm going to do. I'm going to make it somehow."

Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important.

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.

I'm very flower-like. I love classical music. I go to ballet and I cry. There's nothing so beautiful.

I love going to see the theatre whether it's a Broadway play or a Russian ballet company.

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.

Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act.

Muse of the many twinkling feet, whose charms are now extending up from legs to arms.

I toured the Middle Eastern countries with the ballet.

Excellent! I will still be in time for the ballet!

He dances well to whom Fortune pipes.

Come and trip it as ye go On the light fantastic toe.

I grew up in Honolulu. It's not the ballet cultural mecca by any stretch of the imagination. People are much more familiar with hula than they are with ballet.

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

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

I should never conclude were I to speak to you of all the misfortunes which have their origin in the faulty carriage of the body. All these defects, mortifying for those who have contracted them, cannot be remedied except in their early stages. A habit born in childhood is strengthened in youth, becomes deeply rooted in adulthood and is incurable in old age.

The defects born of habit are innumerable. I see every child occupied in some way in disarranging and disfiguring his physique; some displace the ankles through the habit they have contracted of standing on one leg only and playing, as it were, with the other; placing it in a position which though disagreeable and strained, does not fatigue them, because the softness of their tendons and muscles lend themselves to all kinds of movement.

The abuse of the best things is always detrimental.

Applause lavished at a whim and without discernment, often proves the ruin of young people training for a stage career.

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