Robert Gottlieb Quotes

Ballet really taught me so much about the power of movement.

Ballet is good, because it makes you stand up tall.

Ballet is such a disciplined craft and it has given me a good grounding.

Ballet teaches you how to hold yourself.

I love ballet. Ballet is its own being. It has its own vocabulary. I feel as if I am in a different world when I am in the ballet studio.

Being a ballerina, you don't ever want to show yourself less than perfect, ever. That's what your goal is: 24/7 perfection.

I always looked at the process and the career of being a ballerina as sacred. It's a true gift to have this talent and perform these masterworks; it's sublime.

When I was 8, I began to study ballet. In seventh grade, my mother took me into New York to study at the School of American Ballet. I loved ballet - its precision, the escape from uncertainty, and the music.

Ballet is one form which I really want Indians to practice it.

For a ballerina, the worst thing imaginable is big thighs.

Ballet is hard enough when you go with it; when you have to force your body to do things, it is so much harder.

A dancer's life is all about repetition.

Dance must have a precision without fault.

My mother danced; she loved the ballet.

There is always tension in women's gymnastics between athleticism, grace, performance, and eros.

I was a ballerina, and everything I did in dance was delicate, pretty.

Ballet dancers really know how to enter a room.

I live in my Ballet Beautiful street shoes.

A simple scoop-neck leotard highlights a ballerina's swanlike neck and elegant posture, both rooted in a powerful core.

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

I grew up studying ballet; I grew up honing my craft.

The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener.

I wanted to be a ballet dancer. I was bad - I'm not very coordinated. But I always wished I could have been a dancer.

Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.

At the ballet, you really feel like you're in the presence of something outside the rest of your life. Higher than the rest of your life.