#ballet

I always wanted to act and sing, but my first love was ballet. ↗

— Jennifer Ellison

#always #ballet #first #first love #i

Dad worked in a warehouse when I was little and I didn't see him for three years as he was doing all the overtime God gave him to buy me new ballet shoes, or a new tutu. ↗

— Jennifer Ellison

#buy #dad #doing #gave #god

With both acting and ballet, often you can't just choose when you do it, whereas a painter can go at his own pace. ↗

— Mia Wasikowska

#ballet #both #choose #go #his

I was serious about ballet for a long time, but my mom got me into tap and jazz and modern and hip-hop, and I was one of those over-lessoned children. ↗

— Greta Gerwig

#ballet #children #got #hip-hop #i

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned. ↗

— George Balanchine

#everyone #medicine #most #poisoned #states

The moment the curtain rose on that first ballet, I knew something wonderful and new had come into my life. I can still see the first scene. The ballet was Divertimento No. 15. ↗

— Robert Caro

#come #curtain #first #had #i

The New York City Ballet is obviously speaking to a whole new generation and bringing it the same wonder and beauty that it brought previous generations. ↗

— Robert Caro

#beauty #bringing #brought #city #generation

I wanted to give people - which is fairly bizarre considering my whole life is contemporary dance really - I wanted to give people a really fulfilling sense that they had seen a white classical ballet - in a very pure form. ↗

— Graeme Murphy

#bizarre #classical #considering #contemporary #dance

Boxing is my real passion. I can go to ballet, theatre, movies, or other sporting events... and nothing is like the fights to me. I'm excited by the visual beauty of it. A boxer can look so spectacular by doing a good job. ↗

— LeRoy Neiman

#beauty #boxer #boxing #doing #events

Real men don't lift weights, they lift women. ↗

— Every male ballet dancer

#dance #funny #inspirational #funny