Ballet Dancer Quotes - Page 3

• My background is somewhat unusual, as I trained to be a ballet dancer. I worked in the theatre for eight or nine years as a contemporary dancer. But as an actor one does read Shakespeare and does try to learn the classics.

  William Kempe

  Eight, Years, Dancer

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• Dancing is like dreaming with your feet!

  Constanze Mozart

  Dance, Dream, Ballet Class

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• Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.

  Martha Graham

  Dance, Passion, Ballet Class

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• Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays.

  George Balanchine

  Dance, Ballet Class, Play

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• Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room.

  Mary Schmich

  Inspirational, Dance, Ballet Class

  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

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

  W. H. Auden

  Dance, Children, Ballet

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• I have been curious about the mind and body for as long as I can remember. I was a gymnast, a ballet dancer, and a philosophy and physical therapy major. Following the thread of curiosity about mind and body, I took my first yoga class in 1980 and knew from the start that it would be a lifelong passion.

  Rodney Yee

  Philosophy, Yoga, Passion

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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.

  Elizabeth Debicki

  Dancer, Ballet, Age

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I always wanted to be an actor. I was one of those lucky kids - or cursed kids - who always knew what he wanted to do. My wife too. She's a ballet dancer, and she's known what she wanted to do since she was 5. My mother used to tell this story about how our TV set had been taken to be repaired, and back then, they took the set out of the console. So there was this empty console with an empty TV screen in it, and I would climb inside and be like, "I'm on TV!"

  Tim Matheson

  Mother, Taken, Kids

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Realization that i couldn't be a ballet dancer was a blessing in disguise because that was the first time I felt like I stepped into adulthood. I realized, Okay, this is not going to work out. It was frustrating for about a year because I didn't know what to do with the creativity and the discipline that dancing had instilled in me from a very young age. But then I moved to Paris to model, and that was my cultural awakening. Now, I think dancing has been the biggest thing in my life, much more so than modeling, and it still helps me enormously in my work.

  Diane Kruger

  Creativity, Thinking, Blessing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Wrestling used to be interesting. There was a bit of sham involved, of course, but there was some real wrestling involved. They're just characters now. It's unrecognizable. There's no fighting in American bloody wrestling. They just yell at each other and jump around like overweight ballet dancers.

  Shane MacGowan

  Real, Character, Wrestling

  Source: shanemacgowan.com

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

  Pat Steir

  Dancer, Ballet, Needs

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• When I was very young I wanted to be an opera singer, a ballet dancer... The people I loved were a little different.

  FKA twigs

  People, Dancer, Ballet

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• Somewhere in there the grace of a ballet dancer joins with the strength of an SAS squaddie, the dignity of an ancient kind, the nerve of a bomb disposal officer.

  Eamon Dunphy

  Soccer, Football, Media

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• In swimming at my level it's about control of the small movements. A good ballet dancer floats across the stage, the best sprinters virtually abolish gravity. All motion occurs in the right direction.

  Alexander Dale Oen

  Swimming, Dancer, Ballet

  "With Alexander Dale Oen's sudden death, Norway lost a hero" by Andy Bull, www.theguardian.com. June 2, 2012.

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• I'm a classical ballet dancer, and at the end of the day I want to be with American Ballet Theater, performing classical ballets.

  Misty Copeland

  Dancer, Ballet, The End Of The Day

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• 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.

  Anais Nin

  Dancer, Ballet, Vehemence

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• I really wanted to make it as a ballet dancer to make my mom proud. But it didnt happen.

  Tracy Anderson

  Mom, Dancer, Ballet

  "Teeny, tiny body, anyone?". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2009.

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• I've won my last four matches by knockout. Out of 30 fights, I've won more than 20 by knockout. I think that a ballet dancer wouldn't win by knockout.

  Sergio Martinez

  Motivation, Fighting, Thinking

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• I used to get so comfortable running the hurdles, I was just like a ballet dancer going out there and going through the routines.

  Rod Milburn

  Running, Track, Dancer

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• 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.

  Paulo Coelho

  Spiritual, Real, Thinking

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• I think classical ballet dancers dance on pointe because they're simultaneously touching the earth and reaching up to the skies

  Paulo Coelho

  Thinking, Reaching Up, Sky

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• I was a ballet dancer growing up and that's what I was convinced I would be.

  Candice Swanepoel

  Growing Up, Dancer, Ballet

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  James Patterson

  Wings, Dancer, Ballet

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• I actually was a ballet dancer - I studied ballet from three until 13 - but like very seriously, that's what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a contemporary ballet dancer. I wanted to go to Juilliard.

  Solange Knowles

  Dancer, Ballet, Three

  "Solange Knowles On Nas, Juvenile And Dance Moves". "Microphone Check" with Ali Shaheed Muhammad, Frannie Kelley, www.npr.org. February 12, 2014.

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