Ballet quotes

Enchanting art form that gracefully tells stories through dance. Discover inspiring ballet quotes that celebrate the elegance, discipline, and passion of this timeless art on our website!

Figure skating is an unlikely Olympic event but its good television. It's sort of a combination of gymnastics and ballet. A little sexy too which doesn't hurt.

- Andy Rooney

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

- Vincente Minnelli

It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style.

- Quentin Crisp

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

- Deborah Bull

Ballet is sort of a mystery to me. And I don't want to unravel that mystery.

- Robert Caro

Ballet is completely unnatural to the body, just being turned-out... it's not the way your body is supposed to function, so you actually train your body to be a different structure than you were born with.

- Neve Campbell

I toured the Middle Eastern countries with the ballet.

- Leslie Caron

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

- Robert Caro

Wrestling is ballet with violence.

- Jesse Ventura

I think that every year that the New York City Ballet is alive is worthy of celebration. Because otherwise the terrible thing is just that we take it for granted.

- John Guare

You can't drink on an eight hour flight, pass out, and then go onstage... well you can, but then you're Spandau Ballet.

- Robert Smith

I wanted to be a ballet teacher.

- Jaclyn Smith

Everything seems to be going faster and faster. It's really harder to create something that endures. The New York City Ballet has succeeded in doing that.

- Robert Caro

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

- Neil Patrick Harris

Classical ballet will never die.

- Ninette de Valois

I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle. It wasn't mine.

- Rita Rudner

You increase muscle bulk by training against resistance. For example, weights. And in ballet, this isn't the case.

- Deborah Bull

The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener.

- George Balanchine

If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts.

- Ritchie Blackmore

And what would be great numbers in a Broadway show are now on stage of the New York City Ballet.

- John Guare

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

- Jennifer Garner

When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire.

- Angelina Jolie

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

- Ninette de Valois

I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner.

- John Guare

I grew up in the theater and danced ballet atrociously.

- Maureen O'Hara

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

- Suzanne Farrell

Mum, who had been a dancer with a small ballet company before she got married, was full of encouragement. She didn't say, 'This is really good, you should do this', She just encouraged us to do whatever we liked.

- Dannii Minogue

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.

- Suzanne Farrell

I skate about 15 to 20 hours a week and also incorporate a lot of off-ice training. I take ballet and Pilates classes and lift weights with my physical therapist when I'm not on the ice.

- Sasha Cohen

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.

- George Balanchine