...It Isn't actually much of an encouragement to me to…

We get strength and encouragement from watching children.

— Hayao Miyazaki

I actually quit ballet when I was offered a job, an apprenticeship at North Carolina Dance Theater Company, run by John Pierre Bonnefoux and…

— Margaret Qualley

My life isn’t theories and formulae. It’s part instinct, part common sense. Logic is as good a word as any, and I’ve absorbed what…

— Audrey Hepburn

I know that dancers, especially ballet dancers, can't do it forever.

— Kelli Berglund

“Kaito lurched forward, his opponent grabbing him an instant later, and both of them spun around the ring like two clumsy, obese ballet dancers,…

— Mike Wells

“The problem with telling people that they can do anything they want to do is that it is objectively, factually inaccurate. Otherwise the whole…

— David Nicholls

In order to dance professionally, you have to start at a young age. No matter what, your muscle structure and your bones have to…

— Joan Chen

Dance till the stars come down from the rafters Dance, Dance, Dance 'till you drop.

— W. H. Auden

I went to 'The Nutcracker' every year with my grandma and aunt. Then, in my early teen years, I thought I wanted to be…

— Jinkx Monsoon

No matter what people tell you, you should focus on your goals and you should do what you want to do, especially if you…

— Michaela DePrince

I always wanted to be an actor. I was one of those lucky kids - or cursed kids - who always knew what he…

— Tim Matheson

How can you live the high life if you do not wear high heels? I don't understand why women wear these ballet pumps. They…

— Sonia Rykiel

For ballet dancers, style is about melding personal expression with physical form.

— Mary Helen Bowers

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

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