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  • I grew up learning ballet and then I took up contemporary as I got older. I probably thought I was going to be a ballet dancer when I was younger, but at a certain age, I really was more interested in acting.

    Dancer   Ballet   Age  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • I really wanted to make it as a ballet dancer to make my mom proud. But it didnt happen.

    Mom   Dancer   Ballet  
    "Teeny, tiny body, anyone?". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2009.
  • Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.

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

    Dancer   Ballet   Musical  
  • So I'm studying ballet every day and really training so people will see me as a ballet dancer, which no one's seen before.

    People   Dancer   Ballet  
  • 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.

  • Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

    John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.1562, Delphi Classics
  • Swan Lake is the most difficult thing to portray for a female ballet dancer; it really requires such specific qualities of articulation, agility, strength, and the arm work is something that takes a lot of training.

    Lakes   Swans   Dancer  
    "Black Swan Choreographer Benjamin Millepied on Teaching Natalie Portman to Have Swan Arms" by Rebecca Milzoff, www.vulture.com. December 3, 2010.
  • Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.

  • And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

  • I trained as a ballet dancer - well, I started when I was two and a half, and was serious about it from when I was eight until I was 18.

    Two   Eight   Dancer  
    "Jessica Brown Findlay's Sybil Liberties". Interview with Esther Zuckerman, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 12, 2012.
  • Coming near him like a ballet dancer she took a leap towards him, and he, frightened by her vehemence, and fearing that she would crash against him, instinctively became absolutely rigid, and she felt herself embracing a statue.

  • you...are...a...frige...with...wings...we...are...freaking...ballet...dancers!

    Wings   Dancer   Ballet  
  • Sing like no one is listening. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like nobody’s watching, and live like it’s heaven on earth.

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

    Fall   Knowing   Dancer  
  • Anyone who has a child today should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he'll escape.

    Dance   Children   Ballet  
  • Making the ballet really taught me how to get things moving. Ballet dancers don't stand still.

    Moving   Dancer   Ballet  
    Source: www.avclub.com
  • I've usually never felt comfortable shooting until things were kind of claustrophobic, but ballet dancers need a lot of space, so the sets that I designed had to be big. Normally, I'd design a kitchen that was half the size of a normal kitchen, just to make everything feel kind of womb-like, but the kitchen in a ballet would have to be like 100 feet wide and just as long.

    Feet   Space   Long  
    Source: www.avclub.com
  • Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room.

    Mary Schmich (2012). “The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary”, p.33, Agate Digital
  • I had danced with Janet Jackson and P. Diddy so I had done a bunch of hip hop. Really and truly my roots are in modern and ballet but, professionally, that's not really out there any more, unfortunately, so these artists aren't really having a lot of ballet dancers behind them so I had to learn hip hop really quick.

    Artist   Roots   Hip Hop  
    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Then come the lights shining on you from above. You are a performer. You forget all you learned, the process of technique, the fear, the pain, you even forget who you are you become one with the music, the lights, indeed one with the dance.

    Dance   Pain   Light  
  • There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.

    "The Life and Work of Martha Graham". Book by Agnes de Mille, p. 264, 1991.
  • I don't try to dance better than anybody but myself.

  • Do you know what I've learned? That although ecstasy is the ability to stand outside yourself, dance is a way of rising up into space, of discovering new dimensions while still remaining in touch with your body. When you dance, the spiritual world and the real world manage to coexist quite happily. I think classical ballet dancers dance on pointe because they're simultaneously touching the earth and reaching up to the skies.

  • To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.

  • To handle paint the way Pollock did, you need the muscularity of a ballet dancer.

    Dancer   Ballet   Needs  
  • I think people are people and, if their feelings are truthful, they can connect. It doesn't matter if you're an aging, 50-something wrestler at the end of his career, or an ambitious, 20-something ballet dancer.

    Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 28, 2010.
  • I've got no plans to be a ballet dancer at the moment.

    Dancer   Ballet   Moments  
  • Ballet is not technique, not a way of doing things, but a means of expression that comes perhaps more closely to the inner language of man than any other.

    Dance   Men   Expression  
    "This thing called ballet".
  • When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire.

    Girl   Ghouls   Dancer  
    "Career Watch: Has ‘Maleficent’ Restored Angelina Jolie’s Box Office Mojo?" by Susan Wloszczyna, www.indiewire.com. June 2, 2014.
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