Best Ballet Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 16

Author:Rachel Stevens

“The worst thing about me is my toes. I've thick joints from wearing pointe ballet shoes - I went to a dance school from the age of 11 and danced every day.”

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Author:Pixie Lott

“Ballet is good, because it makes you stand up tall.”

Tall Ballet

Author:Carine Roitfeld

“Even though I am a professional, and I know what the steps are, I don't quite know how I'm going to do them, because I haven't lived that moment yet. I always feel very insecure and I get very excited.”

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Author:Suzanne Farrell

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

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Author:Suzanne Farrell

“Somewhere in there the grace of a ballet dancer joins with the strength of an SAS squaddie, the dignity of an ancient kind, the nerve of a bomb disposal officer.”

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Author:Eamon Dunphy

“I have always loved fashion because it's a great way to express your mood. And I'm definitely a shoe lover. The right pair of shoes can change the feel of an outfit, and even change how a woman feels about herself. A woman can wear confidence on her feet with a high stiletto, or slip into weekend comfort with a soft ballet flat.”

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Author:Fergie

“On the other hand, I think it is wonderful for everyone to take ballet classes, at any age. It gives you a discipline, it gives you a place to go. It gives you some control in your life.”

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Author:Suzanne Farrell

“Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list -- the common seed within which all these fabulous beings slumber in embryo is taxation.”

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Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“Go figure a crazy, mixed-up country where ballet outsells boxing. I wouldn't be surprised if their wrestling was on the level.”

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Author:Bob Hope

“People who leave Washington do so by way of the box... ballet or coffin.”

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Author:Clay Pell

“Since I was a child I've loved going to the opera, theatre and ballet.”

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Author:Christian Lacroix

“The best physique I ever had was when I was ballet dancing.”

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Author:Manu Bennett

“I began with dance, doing ballet at 3, then tap, jazz, modern. Then I sang in church choirs, learned how to play clarinet and drums, sang with rock bands and only then did I get into musical theatre.”

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Author:Samantha Barks

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

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Author:Deborah Bull

“I do take class because I still dance, and yes, I do slip into class with the Royal Ballet from time to time.”

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Author:Deborah Bull

“I will say a lot of dancers do such beautiful things for their body and then they smoke a cigarette. I've never been a smoker, but I realized after taking yoga . . . in ballet you're not encouraged to do a lot of breathing. I think in a weird way, a lot of dancers find relief in actually breathing.”

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Author:Elizabeth Berkley

“Dance is very, very old. With Louis XIV at Versailles is where ballet started.”

Ballet Versailles

Author:Neve Campbell

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

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Author:Robert Caro

“I had danced with Janet Jackson and P. Diddy so I had done a bunch of hip hop. Really and truly my roots are in modern and ballet but, professionally, that's not really out there any more, unfortunately, so these artists aren't really having a lot of ballet dancers behind them so I had to learn hip hop really quick.”

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Author:Jenna Dewan

“When I was a child, I went to stage school three times a week in the evenings - singing, ballet, tap, modern and acting, and I loved it.”

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Author:Michelle Dockery

“I went to the Performing Arts School and studied classical ballet. That attitude is something that's put into your head. You are never thin enough.”

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Author:Carmen Electra

“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.”

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Author:Suzanne Farrell

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

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Author:Summer Glau

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

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Author:Michael Gambon

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

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Author:Michael Ealy

“Ballet is an incredibly difficult, beautiful art form that takes a lot of training, a lot of time, and a lot of hard work.”

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Author:Sutton Foster

“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.”

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Author:Sutton Foster

“There might've been wires, but I have this ability to make myself light. Well you know what, in ballet, when you kind of lift yourself here, it's all up in the head.”

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Author:Albert Finney

“He was a punk, she did ballet. What more can I say.”

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Author:Avril Lavigne

“The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.”

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Author:Margot Fonteyn

“I do after-school ballet and also hip-hop and jazz.”

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Author:Elle Fanning

“I trained as a ballet dancer - well, I started when I was two and a half, and was serious about it from when I was eight until I was 18.”

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Author:Jessica Brown Findlay

“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.”

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Author:Susanna Hoffs

“In terms of withstanding incredible amounts of pain - both physical and emotional - I don't think there's any better training than ballet.”

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Author:Julia Jones

“I was a protege; by the age of 10, I was studying with ballet choreographer Anthony Tudor in a class of adults.”

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Author:Judith Jamison

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

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Author:Karlie Kloss

“I think that taking ballet is one of the best things a girl can do. Period.”

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Author:Karlie Kloss

“I went away when I was 9 to a ballet school. I thought I wanted to be a dancer, but eight years of ballet cured me of that.”

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Author:Juliet Mills

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