#ballet

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

It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#ballet #ballet dancer #dancer #farm #good

I was a ballet dancer and that kind of bled into musical theater. I was constantly in rehearsal for one thing or another. ↗

— Jennifer Garner

#ballet #ballet dancer #bled #constantly #dancer

My world was a community ballet school, a marching band, my two sisters and my girlfriends. I played saxophone in the band and was a bit nerdy. ↗

— Jennifer Garner

#band #bit #community #girlfriends #i

I had never picked up a basketball before. I went through a grueling audition process. It was almost as if I was learning to walk. It would be like teaching somebody to dance ballet for a role. ↗

— Sanaa Lathan

#audition #ballet #basketball #before #dance

Mum, who had been a dancer with a small ballet company before she got married, was full of encouragement. She didn't say, 'This is really good, you should do this', She just encouraged us to do whatever we liked. ↗

— Dannii Minogue

#been #before #company #dancer #encouraged

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

— Every male ballet dancer

#dance #funny #inspirational #funny

Figure skating is an unlikely Olympic event but its good television. It's sort of a combination of gymnastics and ballet. A little sexy too which doesn't hurt. ↗

— Andy Rooney

#combination #event #figure #figure skating #good

When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire. ↗

— Angelina Jolie

#dancers #i #kind #little #little girls