Anne-Marie Duff Quotes

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.

I dug up my dad's old Fred Astaire tapes, and now I find him super-inspiring. He's, like, one of the best dancers.

The first movement ballerina should be a paradigm of strength and authority.

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

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.

Audrey Hepburn is someone I've always admired. She has that untouchable star quality.

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.

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

I feel like dance, by its nature, goes so easily to grand and beautiful.

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

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

Ballet is sort of a mystery to me. And I don't want to unravel that mystery.

You know who a role model for me is? George Ballanchine.

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

The New York City Ballet is always about the realm of possibilities, the realm of what the human body can do, what the human spirit can do. And it's about listening, it's about listening to remarkable music and how we respond to that.

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

My mother danced; she loved the ballet.

Ballet teaches you how to hold yourself.

I cherish the ballets made for myself by Mr. Balanchine. He never lost his temper. He was quiet, humble, the genius of the 20th century.

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.

Most ballets are more interesting than most men.

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

There is always one thing that turns you into an icon, an iconic image: in my case, a catsuit. But the icon 40 years later doesn't really want to know because it's not relevant to me.

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.

I've always felt like a different kind of ballerina.