300 Ballet Quotes for You to Enjoy

I know that dancers, especially ballet dancers, can't do it forever. Kelli Berglund

Dancers Know Ballet Forever

I love dance; that's a big part of my life - like, ballet specifically. Kerris Dorsey

Life Love Dance My Life Big Part Like Ballet Big Part Specifically

I was a weird teenager. My mother was actually worried because I didn't have any interest in dating in my teenage years. I had all this desire to pursue my passions like ballet, then sailing, then music, so I didn't have any emptiness to fill. Kiesza

Music Mother Teenage Teenage Years Teenager Worried Dating Pursue Had Weird Like Emptiness Because Sailing Ballet Passions Years Any Interest Then Fill Actually Desire

Throughout my childhood, I did a form of Irish dancing that was kind of the precursor to 'Riverdance.' It was a mixture of ballet and Irish dancing that my teacher, Patricia Mulholland, had invented, essentially. It was Irish ballet, and she would create performances based around the myths and legends of Ireland. Laura Donnelly

Teacher Dancing Kind Would Invented Throughout Had Myths Performance She Around Ballet Mixture Ireland Irish Did Legends Childhood Precursor Essentially Form Create Based

I came from the musical stage. My first show was '110 In The Shade.' I started as a ballet dancer and then sort of gravitated toward musical theater, so any time I got asked to sing or dance, it was a joy for me. Lesley Ann Warren

I toured the Middle Eastern countries with the ballet. Leslie Caron

Eastern Toured Countries Ballet Middle Middle Eastern

Three months before he died, I began to steal things from my father's house. I wandered around barefoot and slipped objects into my pockets. I took blush, toothpaste, two chipped finger bowls in celadon blue, a bottle of nail polish, a pair of worn patent-leather ballet slippers, and four faded white pillowcases the color of old teeth. Lisa Brennan-Jobs

Old Father Three Before Barefoot White Took Worn Teeth Toothpaste Months Slippers Finger Pockets Objects Steal Color Bottle He Faded Nail Nail Polish House Bowls Polish Around Ballet Began Died Blue Wandered Blush Pair Things Four Two

I think 'Ballet Shoes' was a very pivotal role for me. I was about 14 then, and it was an incredible cast: Eileen Atkins, Victoria Wood, Emilia Fox, Harriet Walters. All these incredible women. Lucy Boynton

Me Women Shoes Think Incredible Harriet About Cast Ballet Very Role Wood Pivotal Victoria Then Fox

My mother was the influence on me - my father was absent. He was a diamond dealer; he was doing wonderful things in the background, and women were left at home. So my mother really was in charge of everything: the ballet, dance lessons, piano lessons, and latkes. Maira Kalman

Home Me Women Wonderful Mother Father Dance Diamond Everything Background Charge Absent Piano Piano Lessons He Dealer Ballet Doing Were Left Wonderful Things Influence Really Lessons Things

I do ballet and pointe work. I also do tap, commercial jazz and technical jazz, freestyle street dancing. Maisie Williams

Work Jazz Dancing Freestyle Also Ballet Tap Commercial Technical Street

Ballet can be grueling, for sure, but it gives you a certain discipline. Margaret Qualley

You Discipline Gives Sure Ballet Certain Grueling

Ballet, there's a right way to do things, and it's black and white, and it's all striving for perfection. Acting is not that way. It's very gray, and the messier you can be, the better. The mistakes that you make are the gold and the beautiful stuff. Margaret Qualley

I actually quit ballet when I was offered a job, an apprenticeship at North Carolina Dance Theater Company, run by John Pierre Bonnefoux and Patricia McBride, who are my idols. Everything sort of went perfectly. I was 16, and I was about to drop out of high school and become a professional ballet dancer. Margaret Qualley

School Dance Job Drop Become Apprenticeship Dancer Everything Carolina Out Run High John High School About Drop-Out Perfectly Pierre Sort Ballet Ballet Dancer Idols Offered North North Carolina Quit Theater Who Professional Company Actually

It's a normal part of the culture of ballet to go to a nutritionist in your first few weeks. They write down everything you eat and use a little roller that pinches you to measure the fat all over your body. Then, every semester, you get a letter saying either you're too thin, or you're OK, or you're overweight. Margaret Qualley

Saying You Culture First Few Down Every Too Everything Nutritionist OK Eat Weeks Write Part Over Ballet Go Normal Overweight Semester Get Roller Either Little Then Body Use Your Your Body Measure Letter Thin Fat

You should have seen me at 14, with braces and glasses, gangly and doing ballet! Margot Robbie

Me You Glasses Seen Ballet Doing Braces Should Gangly

I had to do a tango with Raft and I learned to dance in ballet shoes with my knees bent. Marie Windsor

Dance Shoes Bent Had Knees Learned Ballet Tango Raft

With classical ballet you are literally injuring yourself. Marina Abramovic

You Yourself Classical Ballet Literally Injuring

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