ballet

Ballet shoes... I cannot play with them like they're toys. But when the music is playing they get deep on my toes.

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

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 single fleeting moment when you feel alive.

I hated the ballet, but I liked performing. I did 20 shows, and I couldn't get the smile off my face.

I was embarrassed that I even wanted to become an actress because coming from L.A., with two older sisters in the business and a mom who had been a ballet dancer, it was such a cliche.

I actually hated dancing. My mum used to have to bribe me to go by buying me things. A year before I stopped going, I was going to go for an audition with the Royal Ballet. It turned out I was a year too young. Because I was tall, they thought I was older. But before I had the chance to go back, I quit.

For every dancer, no matter how amazing your career, there's more to life than ballet. Being adored by your audience, it's only part of the story.

Each morning I do my ballet class for one hour; after that, it means one hour less to get ready.

In order to dance professionally, you have to start at a young age. No matter what, your muscle structure and your bones have to be groomed from a very young age. Nobody wakes up at 17 and decides to become a ballet dancer.

I wanted to be a ballet teacher.

Wrestling is ballet with violence.

Tolstoy may be right about happy and unhappy families, but in ballet, it works the opposite way: All good ballets are different from each other and all bad ones are alike, at least in one crucial respect - they're all empty.

I went to the Performing Arts School and studied classical ballet. That attitude is something that's put into your head. You are never thin enough.

There are no good tights, It´s all such a rare sight... Gently, I put one in. Holes are within! They´re only good for a fight.

We act as a conduit for the observers_ unexpressed desires, the silent appreciation they may contain for anything; a lover, a river, a building even

You consider me for a moment, perhaps balancing the weight of your fear against the loneliness you will later feel in your room if you do not speak now

I made the sympathetic face, and the interested face, and even the impressed face. I did not say, 'In the name of all that is holy, cease this incessant drivel, you pretentious ass.

It [ballet] is a perfect medium for the expression of spiritual love.