Swan Lake Quotes:

I have had so many great moments, but I would have to say that dancing the Swan in 'Swan Lake' was such a unique and passionate experience for me. It was such bloody hard work, even at that very early age, that I would not want to try to replicate it again now.

- William Kempe

topic: Hard Work, Unique, Swans, Great Moments, Swan Lake

I think it requires a bit of honesty, Swan Lake.

- Graeme Murphy

topic: Honesty, Thinking, Lakes, Swan Lake

Swan Lake is the most difficult thing to portray for a female ballet dancer; it really requires such specific qualities of articulation, agility, strength, and the arm work is something that takes a lot of training.

- Benjamin Millepied

source: "Black Swan Choreographer Benjamin Millepied on Teaching Natalie Portman to Have Swan Arms" by Rebecca Milzoff, www.vulture.com. December 3, 2010.

topic: Lakes, Swans, Dancer, Swan Lake

You cannot dance an arabesque in 'Swan Lake' and 'Nutcracker' the same way.

- Natalia Makarova

source: "Natalia Makarova, Kennedy Center honoree". Interview with Allan Ulrich, www.sfgate.com. December 5, 2012.

topic: Lakes, Swans, Nutcrackers, Swan Lake

Technical things are getting more mechanical. Take 'Swan Lake,' the Black Swan pas de deux. Now, my goodness, they're turning not just 32 fouettes - but double or triple pirouettes.

- Natalia Makarova

topic: Lakes, Swans, Black, Swan Lake, Pirouettes

There's a double beauty whenever a swan Swims on a lake with her double thereon.

- Thomas Hood

topic: Lakes, Swans, Swim, Swan Lake

I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older until I drop dead of beauty.

- Rufus Wainwright

topic: Beauty, Swans, People, Swan Lake

I had seen the ballet of Swan Lake as a child but it was as an adult, when I saw a production featuring Erik Bruhn, that I first noticed how significant a part the ever-present threat of violence played. This juxtaposition of great beauty and grace with a backdrop of pure evil stayed with me for years.

- Walter Dean Myers

topic: Children, Swans, Years, Swan Lake, Pure Evil

Evolution writ large is the belief that a cloud of hydrogen will spontaneously invent extreme-ultraviolet lithography, perform Swan Lake, and write all the books in the British Museum.

- Fred Reed

topic: Book, Writing, Lakes, Swan Lake, British Museum

I remember watching Swan Lake and everybody looking exactly the same, but being able to relate because they were the only company I had ever seen even on video that had Asian dancers. The Asian community in Hawaii is actually almost as dominant as the Caucasian community. I thought "I can relate to that company because they look like people that I see every day." They weren't all little stick-thin Russian ballerinas.

- Joan Chen

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Swan Lake, Caucasian

Would you just strap some toe shoes on and dance 'Swan Lake?' No. Would you just put a violin in your hand and - ? No. I felt that way about acting, and I was taught to feel that way. I didn't come to it on my own.

- Ellen Barkin

topic: Lakes, Swans, Hands, Swan Lake

The radio station was playing Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, a sure sign that things were much worse than they appeared.

- Gary Shteyngart

topic: Lakes, Swans, Tchaikovsky, Swan Lake, Radio Stations