Top 1200 Ballet Dancer Quotes & Sayings - Page 15
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Last updated on April 22, 2025.
I was a lifeguard, camp counselor, the president of the YMCA Leaders Corps. I also took piano lessons. I was a dancer.
When you're really serious about ballet, it's a job - even if you're 15 years old. You're doing it six to eight hours a day.
Ballet Beautiful has made my pregnancy a joy. I've avoided back pain and swelling by keeping my core strong and body moving.
In terms of withstanding incredible amounts of pain - both physical and emotional - I don't think there's any better training than ballet.
When you're a child, you take things for granted. For instance, my mum didn't have a lot of money, but I went to piano, ballet and gymnastics lessons, and tae kwon do.
Being a dancer or athlete of any type teaches you the fundamentals of discipline... and the ability to know you can grow.
If I have any strength as a dancer, I got it all from Nijinska. Her barre was tough, and there were very difficult combinations.
My family were so poor. My mum would clean houses to maybe get me to a ballet class, bless her.
There were many good actresses in my time like Jane Powell and Debbie Reynolds, but I was the only dancer.
I remember from when I use to be a dancer, there is an expression among dancers, I had a T-shirt that said: SHUT UP AND DANCE.
I deal with more complex rhythmical patterns than a regular tap dancer. I even think in rhythms.
We dance to difference genres such as krumping, ballet and hip-hop, together with invited foreign choreographers who are well-known internationally.
I will never give up my dream of being a prima ballerina and backup dancer for Justin Timberlake!
I used to dance for seventeen years -classical ballet, which was very disciplined. I like yoga and Pilates, but I don't have the discipline to go to the gym.
Now I want to become an artist, rather than one thing, like a dancer, or a movie star, or a choreographer.
Lots of people make the stage and it can seem very violent and over the top, but it's not really. It's always a kind of gentle ballet.
Young dancers are training at a very vulnerable time in their lives... So train the whole person, not just the dancer.
From the ages of 5 to 17, I was a competitive dancer. I even went to an arts high school and double-majored in dance and theatre.
At aged eleven, you're learning taking criticism every day and making it a positive thing - otherwise you will never make it in ballet.
I always knew I was a bit different from my friends, had too much energy, and suddenly I could get it all out with ballet.
When I went to the sets of 'ABCD,' I felt younger. Surrounded by so many young dancers, I, too, became a dancer again.
I think the leotard for me became, after I retired, a sort of a symbol of the confines of still fitting into the ballet world in mind and body.
The simplest comment on my book came from my ballet teacher. She said, "I wish you hadn't made every line funny. It's so depressing."
I loved being at the Royal Ballet. Those choreographers, MacMillan and Ashton, they knew how to translate complicated life into choreography.
I feel that while my body's able and I'm young, I'd have so many regrets if I didn't go for it now with the ballet, because that's everything I've always wanted to do.
A lot of people don't know the first time I was ever on national television I was a 'Soul Train' dancer.
I know I'm not the greatest singer or dancer, but that doesn't interest me, I'm interested in being provocative and pushing people's buttons.
Yeah, I grew up doing ballet and jazz and tap, but I stopped at the age of 25, and I've never stepped foot in a ballroom.
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.
When life takes me on a new journey, I simply remember the smile my first ballet recital put on my face and I move forward.
I think that I'm so fortunate to have found classical ballet. It completely changed my life and it shaped the person that I am today, on and off the stage.
A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet. I'm beginning to think that walls are very unhealthy things.
I grew up always wanting to be a dancer and when I went to New York, I fell in love with the idea of performing in all ways.
I can remember being very keen to go to drama school at the age of eight, and practising ballet in my bedroom to Queen soundtracks.
I ended up training only for four years before I was accepted into American Ballet Theater in New York City.
Most dancers have no awareness of how they look; half of them think theyre fat. There is anorexia in the ballet world; there are those things.
From the time I was 2, I told my mom I was going to be a singer. And she'd say, 'Sure, honey, and tomorrow you'll want to be a dancer.'
In my heart, my first desire was to be a dancer. I always wanted to dance and I danced from the time I was 7 till I was well into my 30s.
The connection between conscious and unconscious poses particular problems in the dancer because the body is the soul of action.
I actually wanted to be a dancer, though I doubt anyone now would pay to see me in a leotard!
I never thought of myself as special or particularly good at anything. But once I started ballet, suddenly I had a new identity: prodigy.
Björk’s wraparound swan frock . . . made her look like a refugee from the more dog-eared precincts of provincial ballet.
The bulk of life on Earth lives in a peaceful place where the temperature is stable. There's hunting going on, but it's very civilized, like a slow ballet.
Most dancers have no awareness of how they look; half of them think they're fat. There is anorexia in the ballet world; there are those things.
Country music as a genre, as an art form, is just as valid out there in the pantheon of the arts as classical, jazz, ballet, whatever.
Some Russian ballet master woman said there's no culture in America, but if you look you can find interesting stuff in this country, don't you think?
I'm the first one out on the dance floor. In college I had to take jazz, ballet and tap dancing, but, before that, it was just social.
I know I'm not the greatest singer or dancer, but that doesn't interest me. I'm interested in being provocative and pushing people's buttons.
It is not easy for a dancer to be accepted as an actor. But I worked my way up through hard work and by God's grace.
When I was a kid, I'd always wanted to take karate, but my parents wouldn't let me because I did a lot of other things, including ballet.
Marriage, families, all relationships are more a process of learning the dance rather than finding the right dancer
I've always been physical. I loved sports growing up. I was never specifically a dancer or anything like that.
I started working on stage as a dancer when I was four; by 14 or 15, I knew I wanted to study the craft of acting.
You can usually tell how healthy a ballet company is by the degree of your interest in the middle ranks of the dancers - the not-yet stars, the up-and-comers.
A dancer differeth from a madman only in length of time; one is mad so long as he liveth, the other while he danceth.
I Iove a dancer who is willing to take risks with their body and go that extra mile to move the audience.
I did ballet, jazz, and all that, but I think hip-hop is really where I learned rhythm and groove, which has helped me in music.
My parents always had a Christmas tree in the house and I was put in ballet at a very young age. So every year I would be in 'The Nutcracker.'
I was kind of a loser at ballet school. It's all rich kids, and I was not a wealthy kid. I didn't have the Chanel butterfly clip everyone else did.
I learn from teaching. Having to break things down and explain them makes me a better dancer.
