A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet. I'm beginning to think that walls are very unhealthy things.
Twyla Tharp

Acting is a sense of wonder and magic and mystery for me and when life takes me on a new journey, I simply remember the smile my first ballet recital put on my face and I move forward.
Andrea Thompson

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

And it is always Easter Sunday at the New York City Ballet. It is always coming back to life. Not even coming back to life - it lives in the constant present.
John Guare

And what would be great numbers in a Broadway show are now on stage of the New York City Ballet.
John Guare

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.
Robert Caro

Ballet is completely unnatural to the body, just being turned-out... it's not the way your body is supposed to function, so you actually train your body to be a different structure than you were born with.
Neve Campbell

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

Being a former dancer, classical dancer, it informed me as a human being just in terms of the grace I guess. Ballet is a very graceful form of art. You also become very aware of your body and your mind and your body is working in conjunction. That kind of helps you in acting as well. It's not only using your mind, it's like making your mind communicate this character into your body so that you can bring it to life and physicalize it.
Zoe Saldana

Classical ballet will never die.
Ninette de Valois

Dance is very, very old. With Louis XIV at Versailles is where ballet started.
Neve Campbell

Dancing is a tough career, but I'm glad I spent it at the Royal Ballet.
Deborah Bull

Does the New York City Ballet affect other places? Yeah, it lets people know they should come to New York.
John Guare

Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important.
Mikhail Baryshnikov

Everything seems to be going faster and faster. It's really harder to create something that endures. The New York City Ballet has succeeded in doing that.
Robert Caro

Figure skating is an unlikely Olympic event but its good television. It's sort of a combination of gymnastics and ballet. A little sexy too which doesn't hurt.
Andy Rooney

For 24 hours a day, for 10 years, all I thought about was being in a band. That's all I did. I had no other social life. I don't want my life to be like that now. I've spent the past 10 years having a real life as well. But Spandau Ballet is such a difficult shadow to outrun.
Gary Kemp

God comes to us in theater in the way we communicate with each other, whether it be a symphony orchestra, or a wonderful ballet, or a beautiful painting, or a play. It's a way of expressing our humanity.
Julie Harris

Heaven help the American-born boy with a talent for ballet.
Camille Paglia

However, the moral center of New York City, I believe, is the New York City Ballet.
John Guare