Ballet Class Quotes

Training for the ballet, Potter?" yelled Malfoy.

The most essential thing in dance discipline is devotion, the steadfast and willing devotion to the labor that makes the classwork not a gymnastic hour and a half, or at the lowest level, a daily drudgery, but a devotion that allows the classroom discipline to become moments of dancing too.

Please send me your last pair of shoes, worn out with dancing as you mentioned in your letter, so that I might have something to press against my heart.

In ballet class, I felt like Ralph Wiggum.

I always liked dancing and you'd go to class and find you had an hour acting and an hour of ballet.

My first ballet class was on a basketball court. I'm in my gym clothes and my socks trying to do this thing called ballet. I didn't know anything about it.

I have ballet class every other day for two hours. And for 'Six Feet Under', last week there was a sequence where I had to do a whole choreographed dance number, so I had four hours of dance practice every day.

I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle. It wasn't mine.

I wake up every morning, and I go to ballet class no matter what's going on the night before. That's my priority, and that's what makes me feel sane and not removed from the realities of my world.

Dance, dance, dance till you drop.

I take ballet class as often as possible - up to 5 times a week - and try to go to the gym on the days that I don't take class. I also do a floor barre/Pilates mat class almost everyday.

Being in ballet class, being on the stage, being surrounded by my peers at American Ballet Theater every day, keeps me so humble and grounded. Being in ballet class, I feel, is like this meditation for me every morning.

I grew up as a dancer, and music and dance are so closely tied that in ballet class, you're listening to all this classical music, and in modern class, you're working with a live drummer. It was something that always made me feel really comfortable, and I've had a connection to since the beginning.

I had some ballet training but didn't like it. It was like a game to me.

Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals.

Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays.

I took ballet when I was eight, like a lot of other people.

Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room.

I give myself a Pilates/yoga hybrid mat class almost every day. I also continue to take ballet classes. Both of these practices help me to be aware of my body, my center, and how I move, both with my physical space and my mental space.

My earliest memory is of sitting at Mum's dance school, watching her teach a ballet class.

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

I've been practicing ballet since I was three years old.

My career came together very quickly. I only trained for four years before I became a professional, so I didn't have a lot of time to sit back and be inspired before I took my first ballet class.