Natalie Portman Quotes

I used to dance when I was younger - ballet and modern dance.

Ballet is a riddle of means and ends.

Growing up, I was a dancer. I wanted to be a choreographer.

Choreography is something that I am always going to take up, and it will be on the forefront.

Dance is about never-ending aspiration.

In song and dance, man forgets how to walk and speak and is on the way into flying into the air, dancing... his very gestures express enchantment.

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

Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.

I love ballet because you can see how beautiful the body is.

I love working with Alicia Keys, because it's not just the ability to do the dance to me; I think it's the ability to interpret it that excites me the most.

Dance is one of the most revealing art forms.

Honestly, I am so ignorant of how dance works that I can't even imagine a story that you would want to tell through movement.

My first vocation was dance.

I studied dancing a little bit when I was young.

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.

I was a dancer first, which made me realize how much I loved performing.

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'

The ballet makes us look at those bodies, it makes us listen to that music, it makes us wonder at the geometry, of the way they come together. The way that extraordinary space is controlled and given such emotional force.

When I was really young, my mom enrolled me in dance classes.

Ballet is like any other art form in that we all start out knowing nothing about it.

I was really creative. I started to dance very young. I loved to dance. I begged my mother to put me into dance classes, and finally, in third grade, she did. Tap and jazz, but not ballet.

I love the way in which I make up dances. It's a complicated way and the product is usually clear. Clear and simple. I don't need everybody to know that there are all of these fabulous things going on. If you CAN see it, that's wonderful.

Dance is in my background.

I have very strong feelings about dance and how it's shot.

I enjoy being a choreographer.