44 Quotes by Ninette de Valois

God gave us all exactly the same fingers, arms, legs, and feet, but in our different countries we divided them all a little differently as we feel it, do you understand?

Well it, nothing is done easily, you first have the thing, then the thing has a success, then all sorts of difficulties arise through the success.

It's like the voice. We don't force a voice which we decide is lower than a lot of others, we teach it to sing in what we call their key, don't we?

All Ballets' fundamental steps are derived from the folk dances of Western Europe.

Diaghilev was the first to notice good character dancers and that sort of thing.

You can't dance until you've learnt steps, the things your feet can do.

We are developing the other parts, and we can't give quite all our attention to the upper part, but soon the lower parts will be developed, and the upper part and the lower part will become partners, that will be wonderful.

No no, we ALL teach each other, whether it's dancing, whether it's singing, whether it's talking, we all listen to each other. That's progress.

The smile is the dance of the face - the dance is the smile of the limbs.