When I was 3 years old, my parents put me in ballet and I really thought I was gonna be a ballet… — Helene Yorke Copy Share Image
Ballet, dance, movement, performance - it is the bedrock of why I love to perform. — Lily Gladstone Copy Share Image
So I'm studying ballet every day and really training so people will see me as a ballet dancer, which no one's seen… — Sutton Foster Copy Share Image
Letting go of perfectionism, so ingrained in the nature of a ballet dancer, can be the most difficult thing. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It'd be very difficult to cast me as a ballet dancer. Everybody is, in some sense, controlled by their size and their… — Brian Dennehy Copy Share Image
I was embarrassed that I even wanted to become an actress because coming from L.A., with two older sisters in the business… — Elizabeth Olsen Copy Share Image
A producer wouldn't think of making a film about ballet dancers without using real dancers, but they will cast actors who have… — D. B. Sweeney Copy Share Image
As a little girl, I didn't dream of being a ballet dancer; I dreamt of being a movie star like Ginger Rogers… — Darcey Bussell Copy Share Image
I trained as a ballet dancer and fell in love with Rudolf Nureyev; I thought him the most beautiful creature. My mum… — Jessica Brown Findlay Copy Share Image
Dance exists first on this primordial level, not on an intellectual plane (even though it requires skill and intelligence). Its inmost substance… — Sondra Horton Fraleigh Copy Share Image
I did think of becoming a ballet dancer at one point. I had a girlfriend who was teaching in the ballet school.… — Bernard Cribbins Copy Share Image
I knew I wanted to be a ballet dancer, but what kind, I wasn't sure. My two dream companies had been New… — Wendy Whelan Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be an actor. I was one of those lucky kids - or cursed kids - who always knew… — Tim Matheson Copy Share Image
Melissa Barak, an ex-City Ballet dancer and sometime choreographer, has put together an unspeakably dopey and incompetent mess called 'Call Me Ben,'… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
“But to me, the argument is just semantics, an exercise in mental masturbation. True, Degas painted neither plein air nor spontaneously, but… — Barbara A. Shapiro Copy Share Image
I announced at the dinner table when I was 11 that I wanted to be a ballet dancer. But my goal changed… — Ann Reinking Copy Share Image
The cat crossed the street daintily, pointing his feet like a ballet dancer, lifting them high as if his feet were too… — Vera Caspary Copy Share Image
My background is somewhat unusual, as I trained to be a ballet dancer. I worked in the theatre for eight or nine… — Will Kemp Copy Share Image
I grew up learning ballet and then I took up contemporary as I got older. I probably thought I was going to… — Elizabeth Debicki Copy Share Image
There was never really a moment that I decided that I wanted to be a ballet dancer. It's always just felt like… — Francesca Hayward Copy Share Image
“One day a man came into the bar and ordered a pint and a pousse-cafe, adding "for our lass" in case I… — Harry Pearson Copy Share Image
“Ask any ice-skater or ballet dancer or show jumper, anyone who lives by beautiful moving things: nothing takes as much work as… — Tana French Copy Share Image
Then come the lights shining on you from above. You are a performer. You forget all you learned, the process of technique,… — Shirley MacLaine Copy Share Image
I believe that we learn by practice... it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
I originally wanted to be a ballet dancer and trained for years, but when I was around 18, I realized I wasn't… — Helen Baxendale Copy Share Image
I grew up with classical music when I was a ballet dancer. Now when I have to prepare an emotional scene, to… — Diane Kruger Copy Share Image
'Swan Lake' is the most difficult thing to portray for a female ballet dancer; it really requires such specific qualities of articulation,… — Benjamin Millepied Copy Share Image
If I'm at a party, I can put on some crazy dance moves. However, it's not synchronized, beautiful or choreographed like a… — Sierra McCormick Copy Share Image
“Think of a ballet dancer at the barre. Plie, eleve, battement tendu. She is practicing, because she knows that there is no… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
Coming near him like a ballet dancer she took a leap towards him, and he, frightened by her vehemence, and fearing that… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I've won my last four matches by knockout. Out of 30 fights, I've won more than 20 by knockout. I think that… — Sergio Martinez Copy Share Image
I am striving to reach the stars as a prima ballerina, but my most important reason for wanting this is because of… — Michaela DePrince Copy Share Image
I thought I was going to be a ballet dancer for awhile there. I had a good teacher at Interlochen, this arts'… — Benjamin Walker Copy Share Image
If I had to reflect on the finest classical male ballet dancers of my time, Vladimir Vasiliev of the Bolshoi and the… — Jacques d'Amboise Copy Share Image
It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.'… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
When I was younger, people would always say, 'Are you a ballet dancer?' I had that look - one of those skinny… — Miranda Otto Copy Share Image
I think people are people and, if their feelings are truthful, they can connect. It doesn't matter if you're an aging, 50-something… — Darren Aronofsky Copy Share Image
“Madame LaFleur would say that you're more of a classical ballet dancer instead of a jazz dancer. But sometimes all you have… — Karen White Copy Share Image
Somewhere in there the grace of a ballet dancer joins with the strength of an SAS squaddie, the dignity of an ancient… — Eamon Dunphy Copy Share Image
He [Gene Kelly] once told me dancing was a man's game, as much of a sport as baseball itself. And he made… — Liza Minnelli Copy Share Image