I deliberately made an effort not to become an expert on…

At the ballet, you really feel like you're in the presence of something outside the rest of your life. Higher than the rest of…

— Robert Caro

The New York City Ballet is obviously speaking to a whole new generation and bringing it the same wonder and beauty that it brought…

— Robert Caro

Ballet is sort of a mystery to me. And I don't want to unravel that mystery.

— Robert Caro

I can dance. I like hip hop and stuff and jazz movements, but I'm horrible in ballet. I tried.

— Keke Palmer

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

— Natalia Makarova

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

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