Ballet Dancing Quotes

The funny thing about writing is that whether you're doing well or doing it poorly, it looks the exact same. That's actually one of the main ways that writing is different from ballet dancing.

The best physique I ever had was when I was ballet dancing.

I was ballet dancing at four, playing piano by six, and doing commercials by 12. When I was 21, I was on the number one live comedy show in Puerto Rico. I told my parents, 'I'm going to New York to become a performer.' And I left.

I've got used to the fact -​ just about -​ that whatever I do is going to be compared to the other Beatles. If I took up ballet dancing, my ballet dancing would be compared with Paul (McCartney)'s bowling.

The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul.

Dance is like life. It exists as you are flitting through it, and when it's over, it's done.

I believe that we learn by practice... it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which come shape of achievement, a sense of one's being, a satisfaction of spirit.

You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing but that fleeting moment when you feel alive. It is not for unsteady souls .

He [Gene Kelly] once told me dancing was a man's game, as much of a sport as baseball itself. And he made us believe that. He changed our minds and suddenly, all of America wanted to dance just like Gene Kelly.

The physical language of the body is so much more powerful than words.

On dancing on pointe: Why don't they just get taller girls?

Dance exists first on this primordial level, not on an intellectual plane (even though it requires skill and intelligence). Its inmost substance cannot be reasoned, only experienced.

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.

Dance is bigger than the physical body. When you extend your arm, it doesn't stop at the end of your fingers, because you're dancing bigger than that; you're dancing spirit.

Badminton is like ballet dancing. It requires a lot of control, strength, mind play and measured movement

I do everything the man does, only backwards and in high heels!

Ballet dancing is arduous, strenuous activity. Students are engaged in physical training that rivals the training Olympic athletes undergo. At the same time, they strive for physical perfection not for the prowess alone but as a way of achieving the means necessary to express the pure nature of their art.

We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create the dreams.

I don't want people who want to dance; I want people who have to dance.

Dance, dance, dance till you drop.

How can we know the dancer from the dance?

I don't try to dance better than anybody but myself.

Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.

Dancing is like dreaming with your feet!

Please send me your last pair of shoes, worn out with dancing as you mentioned in your letter, so that I might have something to press against my heart.

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

Dance till the stars come down from the rafters Dance, Dance, Dance 'till you drop.

If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

Nobody cares if you can't dance well.

I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.

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

The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.

Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order.

Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays.

Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals.

Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.

There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them.

Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.

Dance is the hidden langauge of the soul, of the body.

The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.

We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.

Let us read, and let us dance — these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

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

Sing like there's nobody listening, And live like it's heaven on earth.

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.

The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing.

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.

I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words.