“Wrestling is ballet with violence.”
Jesse Ventura
“When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire.”
Angelina Jolie
“I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle. It wasn't mine.”
Rita Rudner
“The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener.”
George Balanchine
“Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.”
“The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for this school of affected grace and toe walking.”
Isadora Duncan
“Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.”
Martha Graham
