Millepied Quotes & Sayings

I did grow up in France, and even though I didn't go to the school or dance with the Paris Opera Ballet, I absorbed similar ideas in my training. I understand the scale of a big company. I danced for one for almost 20 years. — Benjamin Millepied

But the problem with coaching is that it is a full-time job. By that I mean for at least 40 weeks in a year you have to be with the player, either travelling or training. Right now I don't want to do that. — Richard Krajicek

The truly thankful person is a truly peaceful person. — Lysa TerKeurst

When I see the attention movie stars get, it doesn't make me want to be in that position at all. — Benjamin Millepied

The idea that ballet is a white art is absurd and shocking, and it's gone on for too long. Nothing would make me happier than having a company that reflects society, to have dancers onstage that people can relate to. — Benjamin Millepied

I am passionate about ballet. — Benjamin Millepied

Directing is very close to choreography; you deal with space, time, emotions, lighting, making beautiful images. — Benjamin Millepied

Nowadays I actually cook Italian-style food more than French heavy sauces. I make a good salad, some great roasted vegetables, grilled fish. I'm crazy about L.A. because at the farmers' market you find all kinds of wild mushrooms. — Benjamin Millepied

Mouse was the truest friend I ever had. And if there is such a thing as true evil, he was that too. — Walter Mosley

I was born in France. I grew up in Africa. — Benjamin Millepied

'Neverwhere,' by Benjamin Millepied, is set to his favorite composer, Nico Muhly. — Robert Gottlieb

In France, ballet is on TV ... It's on the eight-o'clock news. It's a cool thing to be a dancer. — Benjamin Millepied

Go around asking a lot of dam fool questions and taking chances. Only through curiosity can we discover opportunities, and only by gambling can we take advantage of them. — Clarence Birdseye

It's inevitable. He's so adamant about the things he doesn't want out of life, and I'm starting to understand just how serious he is. So much as I want to protect my heart from him, it's pointless. He's going to break it eventually, yet I continue to allow him to fill it. Every time I'm with him, he fills my heart up more and more,and the more it's filled with pieces of him, the more painful it'll be when he rips it out of my chest as though it never belonged there in the first place. — Colleen Hoover

Thieves, drunkards, lunatics, wastrels, and whores we might all be, but there ain't a coward among us. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Leisure is not synonymous with time. Nor is it a noun. Leisure is a verb. I leisure. You leisure. — Mortimer Adler

I would love to see Flip get back into the league. I think he can definitely still coach in this league. I think he will be in this league quicker than sooner. — Kevin Garnett

I'm interested in films, in directing. — Benjamin Millepied

Most dancers have no awareness of how they look; half of them think they're fat. There is anorexia in the ballet world; there are those things. — Benjamin Millepied

I stared at him for a moment, sifting through everything he'd just said and trying to find an appropriate response, but the only thing I could think of was, "Westerns?" "Really? That's all you got?" "Are you sixty-five?" "Shut the fuck up. — Nicole Jacquelyn

'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

Beware of making a woman cry. God is counting her tears. — Paulo Coelho