300 Ballet Quotes for You to Enjoy

The first time I took a plane to dance in front of an audience outside France was when I was in the Paris Opera Ballet School, and we flew to Japan. Sylvie Guillem

Time School Dance First Took France Paris Outside Opera First Time Audience Ballet Front Japan Plane Flew

Often, when you go to the movies or the theatre, you think, Jesus Christ, everybody is white. But my daughter goes to an amazing dance school called Ballet Black, and they have every colour: dark, white, mixed. It looks like the future to me. Thandie Newton

Future Me You Theatre Dark School Amazing Christ Dance Black Daughter White Every Think Everybody Colour Like Looks Ballet Go Mixed Goes Often Movies Jesus Jesus Christ

My sister was in ballet growing up. I spent almost the entirety of 7 through 12 backstage at Lincoln Center, just running around, waiting for 'The Nutcracker' to end. Timothee Chalamet

Waiting Sister Spent Backstage Running Entirety Through Almost Around Ballet Lincoln End Up Just Center Growing Growing Up

I was in a competing company and have been dancing since I was four - ballet, tap, jazz, hip hop - so it's a huge part of my life and my music. Tinashe

Life Music My Life Jazz Dancing Hop Part Since Hip Hip-Hop Ballet Been Tap Huge Huge Part Company Four Competing

I was introduced to theater by a teacher that found me when I was in elementary school. She tested me for the Gifted and Talented program, started taking me to see the 'Nutcracker Ballet.' I got involved. Todrick Hall

Teacher Me School Gifted Introduced See Taking Talented Involved She Got Ballet Tested Theater Elementary Elementary School Found Started Program

I loved doing ballet. I trained for two years. Tom Holland

Ballet Doing Years Trained Loved Two

I really wanted to make it as a ballet dancer to make my mom proud. But it didn't happen. Tracy Anderson

Mom Dancer Make Proud Ballet Ballet Dancer Wanted Happen Really

When I started thinking seriously about learning the rules of narrative, I thought, 'You've learned the rules of dancing from the ballet; what's the matter with learning the laws of theater from the people who know how to do it?' Twyla Tharp

You Learning People Matter Seriously Thought Thinking Dancing Rules About Laws Know Learned Narrative How Ballet Theater Who Started

It's very difficult for me to do fund raising for my own organization if I'm working for other companies because sponsors will say, 'Well, hey, man, if she's doing a ballet for Ballet Theatre, we'll give money to Ballet Theatre.' Twyla Tharp

Me Man Theatre Money Organization Will Own Difficult Other Hey Say Give My Own Sponsors She Well Because Ballet Doing Very Working Companies Fund Raising

I really developed an early love for ballet. Like most dancers, I am still 'first' a dancer. I'm very proud of it. Once you are a dancer, the physicality never leaves you, nor does the strength. Hopefully, it keeps you like an athlete. Valerie Harper

Love Strength You First Dancer Dancers Once Hopefully Athlete Physicality Never Developed Like Most Does Proud Am Still Ballet Leaves Nor Very Really Keeps Early

The music industry is so easy compared to the ballet world. Vanessa Carlton

Music World Music Industry Easy Industry Ballet Compared

Figure skating has been a great influence for me. I took dance at the School of American Ballet, which helped my own skating. And whether you are a skater or a dancer, without sounding narcissistic, it is all about looking in the mirror. Vera Wang

Great Me You School Dance Mirror Looking Own Took Dancer Has-Been About My Own Narcissistic Without Ballet Been American Influence Skater Whether Which Skating Figure Figure Skating Helped

I grew up doing tap, jazz, and ballet, so I understand rhythm and movement and performing. Victoria Arlen

Jazz Performing Understand Ballet Doing Tap Up Movement Grew Rhythm

I trained as a dancer when I was much younger, for a large amount of time, like 6 or 7 years. Not to be a ballet dancer, actually, but I thought it was a complement for an actor. I thought that actors should know how to move, should know how to juggle, should know how to do acrobatics. Vincent Cassel

I spent a whole year in New York without going back to France. And I always came back because my mother was living in New York since I was 13. So I went to summer camps, hang out at the Roxy, go to class for ballet, so I always had part of my life in New York. Vincent Cassel

Life Class Mother My Life Year Living Back Summer France Spent Out Had Part Since New Because Without Always Ballet Came Go Camps York Hang Going New York Whole

In the Thirties, when I was in New York, I did the first surrealistic ballet in a show of mine. Vincente Minnelli

First Thirties Mine New Ballet Did York New York Show

I had seen the ballet of 'Swan Lake' as a child but it was as an adult, when I saw a production featuring Erik Bruhn, that I first noticed how significant a part the ever-present threat of violence played. This juxtaposition of great beauty and grace with a backdrop of pure evil stayed with me for years. Walter Dean Myers

Great Me Grace Evil Pure Seen First Beauty Saw Backdrop Significant Threat Stayed Adult Had Part How Ballet Years Child Lake Swan Juxtaposition Noticed Production Played Violence

So much is made about the beginnings of ballet careers, the rosebud, and then once the petals and leaves start falling off, is it beautiful anymore? Some people think it is; some people don't. The expectation is to focus on the very beautiful parts, not the ending. Wendy Whelan

Beautiful People Ending Focus Made Some People Expectation Think Once Some About Parts Ballet Leaves Falling Off Very Beginnings Anymore Then Much Petals Start Careers

I liked the structure of ballet. Wendy Whelan

Structure Liked Ballet

My background is somewhat unusual, as I trained to be a ballet dancer. I worked in the theatre for eight or nine years as a contemporary dancer. But as an actor one does read Shakespeare and does try to learn the classics. William Kempe

I've always been interested in both writing and music. When I first started getting published, I also worked as rehearsal pianist for the Boston Ballet, touring with them all over the U.S.A. and Europe - I wasn't making enough money from writing to support myself. William Sleator

Music Myself Writing Money First Enough Enough Money Boston Both Pianist Touring Support Over Also Always Making Ballet Been Getting Interested Them Worked Europe Rehearsal Published Started

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