Pointe Quotes

Our pointe shoes are our instruments. If something's wrong with my feet, all my mind goes there. I usually have six pairs ready. Soft shoes for one act, stiffer shoes for another, stronger shoes for a variation with a lot of turns.

Christian Louboutins are uncomfortable, but I screamed the first time I put on a Pointe Shoe.

A good novel is a good novel, pointe finale. And I think what I'm writing is exactly that.

I don't try to make a place in history at all! People put me in the history of cinema because my first film, La pointe-courte, was so ahead of some other filmmakers. Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.

These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc. These are the men who took the cliffs. These are the champions who helped free a continent. These are the heroes who helped end a war.

I remember seeing a photograph of myself en pointe with my hand over my head and the other hand turned in under my breast curtseying. I took dance lessons at Miss Debbie's Dance Studio, and she put this picture of me in the storefront window. I was so unbelievably humiliated by the sight of myself.

I do ballet and pointe work. I also do tap, commercial jazz and technical jazz, freestyle street dancing.

At the time I started in ballet they were dancing 'The Spirit of Champagne' on pointe, in Paris. I thought, 'I don't want to dance the spirit of champagne, I want to drink it!

The worst thing about me is my toes. I've thick joints from wearing pointe ballet shoes - I went to a dance school from the age of 11 and danced every day.

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

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.

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

Technical perfection is insufficient. It is an orphan without the true soul of the dancer.

Pointe shoes are torture devices. I mean, ballerinas get used to it, but it was definitely a new experience for me. They feel medieval. I was very happy to stop wearing them.

Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.

Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.

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

Dance, dance, dance till you drop.

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

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.

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

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

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

Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals.

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

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

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

If you love something, set it free.