Top 1200 Ballet Dancer Quotes & Sayings - Page 19
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Last updated on April 21, 2025.
I am learning how to dance hip-hop. I'm a good dancer when I dance salsa.
For me, as an actress, being a dancer has helped me. I've done it with my feet bloody.
I think that having a platform and having a voice to be seen by people beyond the classical ballet world has really been my power, I feel.
Being a fan of dance and a dancer, I love my classic dance movies.
I got no business going to a club. I'm a terrible dancer. I got a bad back.
I would've been a really good costume designer because, basically, my clothes were like costumes, and I wanted to be a dancer, so there's all of that tulle and color.
I never wanted to be a dancer. It's true! I wanted to be a shortstop for the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Ballet targets smaller muscles that you don't often use - instead of working your quads, it works the inside and the back of your leg.
When you are a dancer your body speaks, my body can express itself.
If you dance, you dance because you have to. Every dancer hurts, you know.
Any Michael Jackson song will make any dancer go nuts.
I love seeing New York City Ballet from the fourth ring, just seeing the architecture of how these bodies move from above.
The majority of people know me as a dancer, but they don't also know that I'm a director, a songwriter and a producer.
The New York City Ballet is obviously speaking to a whole new generation and bringing it the same wonder and beauty that it brought previous generations
I liked to read but, being a dancer, I didn't have a lot of time to read.
In the ballet studio, it was such an organized and disciplined environment, like I'd never had in my life. Seeing myself in the mirror, surrounded by the classical music, that's when I started to fall in love with dance.
There was this long lovely dancer in a little club downtown, love to watch her do her stuff.
I was an okay singer. I was an okay dancer. But acting? Never could do it.
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.
The first good player I watched as a kid was Joe DiMaggio, and that was like ballet. Since then, I played sandlot and college ball and came to understand how difficult it can be.
I will never be the best dancer or artist. I will be growing until the day I retire.
You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up.
There's only a certain amount of space in every ballet company. You're basically on a team. You want to succeed as a group but all want to have the same roles.
Well, that's why ballet is one of the hardest disciplines - you kind of stay childlike, because you never really experience childhood, so you try to stay in that.
I've always had a crazy sense of humor. So the ballet probably wouldn't have been enough for me. I had to clown around a little bit more.
As a dancer, obviously, we are all inspired by Michael Jackson, and I always looked up to Gene Kelly. He was a bigger version of Fred Astaire, and he was amazing as well.
I was a go-go dancer, too. I called myself 'Grace Mendoza' to fool my parents.
I wake up every morning, and I go to ballet class no matter what's going on the night before. That's my priority, and that's what makes me feel sane and not removed from the realities of my world.
I think it's really important to mix cardio with toning, so I love boxing and then add in Pilates or ballet to keep me long and lean and avoid bulking up.
I've been wearing makeup for as long as I can remember. I started by playing with my mom's lipsticks, then in ballet I would apply my own stage makeup.
I dance every night at home in my kitchen; I'm a really good kitchen dancer.
I have been very lucky to work in so many new ballets, but that is what a dancer's work is.
I would imagine that if you could understand Morse code, a tap dancer would drive you crazy.
It's like, either you're a great dancer and you're going to do great, or it doesn't come naturally to you.
I have always done exercise because I was a dancer, and it is probably good for you. I have done yoga consistently.
The New York City Ballet is obviously speaking to a whole new generation and bringing it the same wonder and beauty that it brought previous generations.
Certainly the life of a dancer is very difficult. The training is very hard and relentlessly grueling.
I'm not a great dancer. I know I'm not. But I know that I can move. I can throw shapes, just not in the right order.
I'd always been a very focused dancer and very protected.
Wouldn't have pegged you for a dancer," he spoke to my mind "Funny, I would have pegged you for a stalker," I shot back.
I danced in corps de ballet for 11 hours a day. That was the hardest work I have ever done in my life. I haven't seen anybody else work more.
My Mom is a ballet director, so I had this idea in me that classical training is the best foundation for anything you do, so I wanted to get a classical background and voice.
It's time for there to be roles in the ballet where two men can fall in love, and a woman can lead a company of 20 dancers that include both men and women.
I'm not a very good dancer. My feet don't point far enough; my extension is embarrassing. Dance, for me, has been hard because it's a strive for perfection.
Malayali audiences are well aware of Shamna as a dancer and that may be a reason why I was constantly being approached by filmmakers to do song sequences alone.
Hopefully, I'll be a part of ABT, in some way, forever. I think I'll always be a part of ballet and try to push diversity, for as long as I live.
My only drive was to be the best dancer in the world, but I never won the world championship.
Diana Vishneva is not only a magnificent dancer but a magnificent actress - no one works harder or understands more.
I do believe I'm not good enough to be a professional dancer. I believe that in my heart.
Most ballerinas take their first ballet class when they are 5 or 6 years old. I was 13 when I took mine on the basketball court of the San Pedro Boys & Girls Club in California.
A photographer is part pick-pocket and part tightrope dancer.
If I am expected to play a dancer, I will learn dancing but won't do the random, meaningless dancing.
The comedian sticks as religiously to her theme as a dancer sticks to a diet.
I liked museums but I wanted to be a dancer, I wanted to go into performing arts, or be a writer.
The highest heels I do are six-inch heels - but mostly only dancers can wear them, since they are used to being on point in ballet shoes.
I like to learn from everyone I perform with. I have learnt a lot from Paritosh Tripathi, my co-anchor on 'Super Dancer,' and also my good friend Ravi Dubey.
The only family I knew was the Royal Ballet and I didn't feel I was part of it in a way. I moved up quite quickly so I didn't make many friends. You are on your own in that sort of place.
Culture in America and everywhere else comes from the suffering, from those who don't want the old ways. They want to bring in the new, whether it's the ballet, when it started, or Shakespeare.
I was always a singer and a dancer, and I always wanted to be an actress. For me, it's all just one thing.
I'm a terrible dancer! I dance like a guy who is trying to dance.
