Martha Graham Quotes

Apparently, I have good feet for ballet.

I do take class because I still dance, and yes, I do slip into class with the Royal Ballet from time to time.

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.

All the New York City Ballet does is hit beautiful home runs.

I frequently go to the ballet, but I don't miss it in the sense that I wish I were still dancing.

I've danced since I was 5 and went to the School of American Ballet at Lincoln Center at 7.

I was raised with a lot of classical music. I loved ballet. I was a bun head for 10 years.

I grew up going to see my sister dance, both at the ballet and later as a modern dancer, and have always been a big fan of the ballet. So I have had a long relationship with dance.

I think ballet is pretty open about what music is used, actually.

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

I'm a classical ballet dancer, and at the end of the day I want to be with American Ballet Theater, performing classical ballets.

It's very frustrating making a picture in Paris. We work hard all day at the studio to get a love scene just right. Then, on my way home, I see couples on every street corner doing it better.

One of the most beautiful sights in dance is American Ballet Theatre in full flight.

I want to stay with dancing, because that's what I want to do the rest of my life. I want to be in film and be acting and maybe even modeling a little bit.

I don't really dance for pleasure much." "Uh--so you, uh, usually dance professionally, or what?" Seb asked. "Yeah," said Nick. "The ballet is my passion.

Photographers, along with dentists, are the two professions never satisfied with what they do. Every dentist would like to be a doctor and inside every photographer is a painter trying to get out.

I want one word on my tombstone - dancer.

I look fondly back on renegade days of my youth. Not the partying or anything, but it's still the spirit that I have always adhered to. When I do work that I like, it feels like a great punk song, like a burst of adrenaline. I've always kept this spirit in me, or some sort of connection to it.

The hardest thing that I'll ever do, is ballet. Because you are either good or bad.

Dancing cheek to cheek.

Oh, welcome to this world of fools, of pink champagne and swimming pools, where all you have to lose is your virginity. Perhaps you'll have some fun tonight, just stick around and take a bite, of life. We don't need feebleness in this proximity.

I'm a redneck. And we can wear whatever because we just really don't care about those things. And when you're a redneck named Bubba, you really don't care.

I was used to dancing, but only when someone told you what to do. So in the nightclub I was all over the place, I combined everything. Street dance, modern dance, a bit of jazz and ballet, I was Twyla Tharp, I was Alvin Ailey, I was Michael Jackson. I didn't care, I was free.

I had rather be a kitten and cry mew Than one of these same metre ballet-mongers.