(121 quotes found)
“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
“I wanted so badly to study ballet, but it was really all about wearing the tutu.”
Elle Macpherson
“Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.”
Martha Graham
“To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other”
Jack Handy
“The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener.”
George Balanchine
“Men wearing pants so tight that you can tell what religion they are.”
Robin Williams
“People who leave Washington do so by way of the box... ballet or coffin.”
Claiborne Pell
“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
