Obviously, something like ballet, you have music, you dance with the music and it's a very direct connection. With visual art, when… — Hilary Hahn Copy Share Image
There's no agents or managers to represent them. Dancers don't have any voice. They have nothing. Nobody can afford a flat to… — Sergei Polunin 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
Acting is a sense of wonder and magic and mystery for me and when life takes me on a new journey, I… — Andrea Thompson Copy Share Image
There is something about Dior that reminds me of New York City Ballet. They both have a classic, glamorous basis but are… — Justin Peck Copy Share Image
The first good player I watched as a kid was Joe DiMaggio, and that was like ballet. Since then, I played sandlot… — Mario Cuomo 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 tried a little of everything when I was little. I tried karate, I tried ballet, I tried piano lessons and singing… — Cassie Ventura Copy Share Image
Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and sulfurous hatreds where anything is… — Shana Alexander 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
When I was 12, I was doing competitive jazz, tap and ballet in Michigan. The studio put the best dancers together, and… — Jillian Rose Reed Copy Share Image
I started dancing ballet when I was very young, so my background really is dance. But I remember loving the feeling of… — Caroline Sunshine Copy Share Image
Going on stage and doing ballet, for the first time, was even more verification of, "This is what I'm meant to do.… — Misty Copeland 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
“Every child has known God, Not the God of names, Not the God of don'ts, Not the God who ever does Anything… — Hafiz Copy Share Image
“I made the sympathetic face, and the interested face, and even the impressed face. I did not say, 'In the name of… — Meg Howrey Copy Share Image
“It was the former ballet star Robert Helpmann who famously observed the problem with dancing naked: when you stop on the music,… — Alastair Macaulay Copy Share Image
My grandmother had a Miss Margaret's School of Dance to teach tap and ballet to kids, but I never studied it. I… — Michelle Shocked Copy Share Image
I launched Ballet Beautiful not long after finishing at Columbia and met Natalie Portman shortly after. We began training and preparing her… — Mary Helen Bowers Copy Share Image
The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body. I don't leap and jump anymore.… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
From the time I made my announcement that I was going to be an actor, I auditioned for community theater, did shows… — Reggie Lee Copy Share Image
Since babyhood, I've always evolved from one thing to another. My mother gave me ballet lessons at 6 as part of her… — Judith Jamison Copy Share Image
The colors of 'The Nutcracker' ballet score have become a part of the vocabulary of film music. It's where so much of… — James Newton Howard Copy Share Image
When you do one more 'Cinderella' or whatever, what is there to learn? Every part in the repertoire has a good side… — Sylvie Guillem Copy Share Image
Being the only African American at this level in American Ballet Theater, I feel like people are looking at me, and it's… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
The Royal Ballet was good to me. They gave me everything I asked for. It's just... I felt tricked. I became a… — Sergei Polunin 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
Ballet, there's a right way to do things, and it's black and white, and it's all striving for perfection. Acting is not… — Margaret Qualley Copy Share Image
I think American Ballet Theatre is setting that standard now for classical ballet, that you can dream big, and it doesn't matter… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
One of the eternal mysteries of ballet is how untalented choreographers find backers for their work, and then find good dancers to… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
I give myself a Pilates/yoga hybrid mat class almost every day. I also continue to take ballet classes. Both of these practices… — Amanda Schull Copy Share Image
I remember vividly seeing 'Tarzan' and Fred Astaire, the Chaplin films, Fred Astaire musicals, MGM, because of my mother. She was just… — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
People say that wrestling is not ballet. But as a former ballerina, I'd like to see some of these men put on… — Carmella Copy Share Image
As I got older, I started to do it more and more, and I wanted to learn all of the different types.… — Jillian Hervey Copy Share Image
In 1998, Vanity Fair asked me to write a big piece for them on the 50th anniversary of the New York City… — Robert Gottlieb 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 have a lot of intention behind what I put out there. The reason all this stuff I do works together, the… — Ben Sollee Copy Share Image
I was a daughterless mother. I had nowhere to put the things a mother places on her daughter. The nail polish I… — Ann Hood Copy Share Image
I was always nervous about coming back to Australia which was a complete hangover of the days when I left when ballet… — Robert Helpmann Copy Share Image
