I can remember being very keen to go to drama school at the age of eight, and practising ballet in my bedroom… — Carmen Ejogo Copy Share Image
When I'm doing well, it's like I'm in a nice little ballet. Everything is going slow all around me. It's very peaceful. — Barry Zito Copy Share Image
I really wanted to make it as a ballet dancer to make my mom proud. But it didnt happen. — Tracy Anderson Copy Share Image
I think Hong Kong's ballet audience is very sophisticated in the sense that they are able to find the beauty in good… — Yuan Yuan Tan Copy Share Image
There's an opera out on the turnpike, there's a ballet being fought out in the alley. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
“Before I knew it, I was racing across the highway. For the first time in my life, I didn’t know what to… — Sarah Todd Hammer Copy Share Image
On Saturdays and after school I'd do classes in tap, ballet, acrobatics... everything. — Michaela Strachan Copy Share Image
“They fan out across the room, swift and surgical, the steps of this brutal ballet known by heart.” — Amie Kaufman Copy Share Image
Figure skating has been a great influence for me. I took dance at the School of American Ballet, which helped my own… — Vera Wang Copy Share Image
When Disney was creating Elsa, they based a lot of her movements on that of a ballerina, which was interesting for me… — Georgina Haig Copy Share Image
I attended Professional Children's School in Manhattan because my ballet and modern dance schedules were intensive and had started to interfere with… — Essence Atkins Copy Share Image
“A major assumption that underlies this selection is that it is only within work that is progressive, experimental or avant-garde that staid,… — Ramsay Burt Copy Share Image
Although we do come from a silent profession, it is important for us to verbalize what we want to say. (As I… — Suzanne Farrell Copy Share Image
When I started thinking seriously about learning the rules of narrative, I thought, 'You've learned the rules of dancing from the ballet;… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
What 'War and Peace' is to the novel and 'Hamlet' is to the theater, Swan Lake' is to ballet - that is,… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
I had to learn that slower is faster If you practice every day with patience and correctness, you will get there. It's… — Edward Villella Copy Share Image
The bulk of life on Earth lives in a peaceful place where the temperature is stable. There's hunting going on, but it's… — Graham Hawkes Copy Share Image
Badminton is like ballet dancing. It requires a lot of control, strength, mind play and measured movement — Aamir Khan Copy Share Image
I was a ballet dancer and that kind of bled into musical theater. I was constantly in rehearsal for one thing or… — Jennifer Garner Copy Share Image
Marco Christian; Homosexual Ballet star preforming in London, United Kingdom in the photograph I took the dust around him is chalk as… — Kyle MacDonald Copy Share Image
As ye sow, so shall ye reap. When a ballet company spends a lot of money on gimmicky pieces, it's stuck with… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Ballet is very stiff and I can do a triple timestep but who knows what I will be like at Ballroom or… — John Whaite Copy Share Image
I did ballet, tap and modern dance - I loved Janet Jackson with a passion - and I was good enough to… — Denise Lewis Copy Share Image
I went away when I was 9 to a ballet school. I thought I wanted to be a dancer, but eight years… — Juliet Mills Copy Share Image
Twyla Tharp set her sights on ballet, and ballet, hungry for major talent, succumbed. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
The first time I took a plane to dance in front of an audience outside France was when I was in the… — Sylvie Guillem Copy Share Image
In authoritarian societies, cultural institutions tend to become ideological proxies - think of the National Ballet in Cuba or the East German… — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
What's so wonderful about ballet is that it's mind-driven physicality. It's almost a Greek ideal of body, mind, and form. — Edward Villella Copy Share Image
Noncooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent, so is the ballet. — Julia Child Copy Share Image
I think that ballet and skating definitely go hand in hand, especially growing up at Ballet West, which is an incredible academy. — Nathan Chen Copy Share Image
When I've done gymnastics, ballet or soccer - I was always trying to be the best. I'm really driven. Really driven. — Chloe Grace Moretz Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I'd always wanted to take karate, but my parents wouldn't let me because I did a lot… — Adena Friedman Copy Share Image
Each morning I do my ballet class for one hour; after that, it means one hour less to get ready. — Carine Roitfeld Copy Share Image
The ballet needs to tell its own story in such a way it can be received without having to be translated into… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
I did ballet and gymnastics, and then I started acting when I was eight - just doing amateur theater at a place… — Olivia Cooke Copy Share Image
Ballet for a rainy day Silent film of melting miracle play Dancing out there through my window To the backdrop of a… — Andy Partridge Copy Share Image
“Transcend the terrestrial; surpass the celestial, from nature’s hands when you receive the sublime pleasures of dance.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
“By disparaging ballet he succeeded very well in convincing the boys that ballet was not for Americans, that it was European in… — Walter Terry Copy Share Image
Ballet is great for spatial awareness. It does wonders for your core and your flexibility and, of course, you have to exercise… — Angela Rippon Copy Share Image
If nobody comes to your shows, then it's modern dance. If everybody comes to your shows and no one likes it, is… — Mark Morris Copy Share Image
