Ballet: men wearing pants so tight that you can tell what…

“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

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

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

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

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

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

— Ruth St. Denis

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

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

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

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

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

— Ann Reinking

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

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

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

— Natalia Makarova

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

— Keke Palmer