The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener. — George Balanchine Copy Share Image
Most dancers have no awareness of how they look; half of them think they're fat. There is anorexia in the ballet world;… — Benjamin Millepied Copy Share Image
I took several years of dance lessons that included ballet, tap and jazz. They helped a great deal with body control, balance,… — Lynn Swann Copy Share Image
My family were so poor. My mum would clean houses to maybe get me to a ballet class, bless her. — Claudia Jessie Copy Share Image
I've always been excited by the strangeness of ballet, but I can't bear it when people just come forward and do a… — Matthew Bourne Copy Share Image
My sister was in ballet growing up. I spent almost the entirety of 7 through 12 backstage at Lincoln Center, just running… — Timothee Chalamet Copy Share Image
What I love most about ballet is being able to express my emotions through dance, and to be able to bring others… — Michaela DePrince Copy Share Image
“It's dancing! It's magical, actually. A kind of slowish magic. Like writing with your feet.” — Katherine Rundell Copy Share Image
My parents have always given me whatever I wanted. Took me to the ballet, the opera, museum exhibitions. I was always surrounded… — Bar Paly Copy Share Image
Dad worked in a warehouse when I was little and I didn't see him for three years as he was doing all… — Jennifer Ellison Copy Share Image
I began dancing when I was 7 years old. I was told that I had the perfect ballet dancers body and had… — Catherine Mary Stewart Copy Share Image
Yeah, I shoot. I shot with my dad a little bit when I was little. He was a Marine, so it wasn't… — Jill Wagner Copy Share Image
Another friend began to say, "Well, Quentin has a problem of adjusting himself to society and he..." This sentence was never finished.… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Culture in America and everywhere else comes from the suffering, from those who don't want the old ways. They want to bring… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
My parents sent me to a ballet class which lasted no time at all - I couldn't really dance. So they sent… — Amanda Redman Copy Share Image
Look at a football field. It looks like a big movie screen. This is theatre. Football combines the strategy of chess. It's… — Steve Sabol 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
I hated the ballet, but I liked performing. I did 20 shows, and I couldn't get the smile off my face. — Ansel Elgort Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a ballet dancer. I was bad - I'm not very coordinated. But I always wished I could have… — Gia Coppola Copy Share Image
I realize how much ballet gave me, and because of ballet, I’m known as a graceful gymnast. — Svetlana Boginskaya 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've been wearing makeup for as long as I can remember. I started by playing with my mom's lipsticks, then in ballet… — Tommy Dorfman Copy Share Image
I went to the Performing Arts School and studied classical ballet. That attitude is something that's put into your head. You are… — Carmen Electra Copy Share Image
I know that I'm talented, and I know that I'm not in American Ballet Theater because I'm black - I'm here because… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
Ballet is not technique but a way of expression that comes more closely to the inner language of man than any other. — George Borodin Copy Share Image
In the world of classical ballet there are only a handful of story ballets, so getting a new one is cause for… — Karen Kain Copy Share Image
At aged eleven, you're learning taking criticism every day and making it a positive thing - otherwise you will never make it… — Francesca Hayward Copy Share Image
I could never make a ballet by wrinkling my brow and concentrating. If you set out deliberately to make a masterpiece, how… — George Balanchine Copy Share Image
“O wayfarer! Yearn finds quench, not in meadows, seashores or altitude of mountain peaks; but when being becomes dance.” — Shah Asad Rizvi 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
The pointes for girls, I always say, have to be like an elephant's trunk; strong and yet flexible and soft. — George Balanchine Copy Share Image
Cincinnatians support a symphony, an opera, a ballet, museums, many galleries and theater groups. — Bill Dedman Copy Share Image
Ballet is number one, everything else is scheduled in the small windows when I'm not in the studio taking class, rehearsing, on… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
Making the ballet really taught me how to get things moving. Ballet dancers don't stand still. — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
I think that every year that the New York City Ballet is alive is worthy of celebration. Because otherwise the terrible thing… — John Guare Copy Share Image
Some Russian ballet master woman said there's no culture in America, but if you look you can find interesting stuff in this… — Robert Duvall Copy Share Image
If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts. — Ritchie Blackmore Copy Share Image
I did ballet, jazz and flamenco from when I was five years old. And my professional career started with dancing in musicals. — Jennifer Lopez Copy Share Image
I was serious about ballet for a long time, but my mom got me into tap and jazz and modern and hip-hop,… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
All dancers have a cumulative tendency, because each beat of the tom-tom has an almost irresistible appeal. Soon, those who were just… — Camara Laye Copy Share Image
