255 Quotes About Ballet

Slashing its way to the finish line, 'Black Swan' is the first ballet movie for highbrow horror fans for whom ballet itself signifies little to nothing. Those of us who know and love ballet can only look on it with a different kind of horror.

My mother and my father always had me in ballet and dance, and I sang in a girl's group.

Everywhere we went, ... we encountered former colleagues and scenes from our childhood. Mr. White and I also got to spend a day with our great teacher, Fernando Alonso, who is now 90. We were greeted graciously, as well, by Alicia Alonso, whom we met at a performance of Giselle at the Garcia Lorca Theater, where we once danced. And we were swamped with love by Cuban ballet fans who remember the two of us dancing our roles in theaters all over the island. It was as if the last 40-some years had melted away. It was incredibly moving.

I did community theater in Georgia and called myself a ballet dancer.

I had been wanting to do a short ballet to Schumann's work for so long and we were finally able to get a great pianist, everything seemed to fall into place.

In ballet, I felt that no matter how good I was, if I didn't have the right body type or if I didn't fit a certain mold there was nothing I could do.

Ballet has really helped me in every acting role. You have to be very disciplined, you have to be able to control your nerves and perform under pressure, and all those things you have to use in acting when you're on film or going for an audition.

I liked the structure of ballet.

We are constantly revealing ourselves to each other through our movement; learning from and teaching each other without even trying.