I've always had a crazy sense of humor. So the ballet…

I was from Washington, D.C., and then I came to New York and got the scholarship for the ballet.

— Chita Rivera

All ballet, all reading, all music. That was my world, my inner world,

— Natalia Makarova

I only started writing in the latter days of Spandau Ballet. I didnt know I could write because all had our roles within the…

— Tony Hadley

You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to…

— Patrick Swayze

Bob's work gleaned from hoofing, from vaudeville, from ballet.

— Ann Reinking

When I was 16, I moved to Torrance, California to train at a more advanced studio, and by 19, I joined the American Ballet…

— Misty Copeland

I'd rather be a guy that can build a house or fix a car than be able to walk like a ballet dancer.

— Travis Fimmel

Even though I am a professional, and I know what the steps are, I don't quite know how I'm going to do them, because…

— Suzanne Farrell

Ballet is pure and demands that you serve something larger than yourself, whether it be beauty or art, or a combination of both. It…

— Peter Martins

It is not a question of who dances but of who or what does not dance.

— Ruth St. Denis

What I love most about ballet is being able to express my emotions through dance, and to be able to bring others joy through…

— Michaela DePrince

No matter the style, the farther one goes the more obstacles increase, and the more distant appears the object it is desired to attain.…

— Jean-Georges Noverre

So I'm studying ballet every day and really training so people will see me as a ballet dancer, which no one's seen before.

— Sutton Foster

One can be a great artist without being a great technician. There have been many famous ballet stars who did not have the ideal…

— Fernando Bujones

“Afterwards Isabelle often wondered if the moments themselves were greater or the memory of them. At least the memory did not pass, while the…

— Toni Bentley