In ballet, I felt that no matter how good I was, if I didn't have the right body type or if I… — Mary Elizabeth Winstead Copy Share Image
Ballet is like any other art form in that we all start out knowing nothing about it. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Sports men and women need hip replacements. It was all those years of classical ballet and forcing turn-outs. It can be quite… — Craig Revel Horwood Copy Share Image
I knew I wanted to be a ballet dancer, but what kind, I wasn't sure. My two dream companies had been New… — Wendy Whelan Copy Share Image
People tend to look at dancers like we are these little jewels, little cardboard cut outs, and yet we have blood and… — Susan Jaffe Copy Share Image
Ballet is not just my profession, it is my life ... It is horrible for me to think that one day it… — Svetlana Zakharova Copy Share Image
I was surrounded by classical music, art and ballet all these things. But they also had a football field and it was… — Carlos Carvalhal Copy Share Image
My mum sent me to ballet from the age of five, not because I was that into it but because I had… — Darcey Bussell Copy Share Image
Ballet dancing is arduous, strenuous activity. Students are engaged in physical training that rivals the training Olympic athletes undergo. At the same… — George Balanchine Copy Share Image
Theatre can transform a child's life, just as an early cultural experience whether with opera, ballet, music or art is a wonderful… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
I went to Indiana University for college for a couple of years, where I double majored in dance and journalism, and after… — Amanda Schull Copy Share Image
Fifth positions, heads, musicality, energy. Not technical things so much-getting your leg higher or doing more turns but things that would set… — Suzanne Farrell Copy Share Image
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
I love music; I love dancing. I took, like, eight years of ballet when I was a kid, and I still love… — Mira Sorvino Copy Share Image
When I would create a dance, I wouldn't have the luxury that ballet people do when they take a piece of music… — Gene Kelly 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
The heart of the classical repertory is the Tchaikovsky-Petipa 'Sleeping Beauty,' and no ballet is harder to get right. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
I grew up without any money, but the one thing that we did was sit up in the gods to watch the… — Arlene Phillips Copy Share Image
My parents have always been open to me trying new things, whether it's yoga or ballet or tap or jazz or piano… — Sofia Vassilieva Copy Share Image
When I was nine, I started doing ballet. That's when I knew that I was down to keep doing it. — Ansel Elgort Copy Share Image
Tennis is more than just a sport. It's an art, like the ballet. Or like a performance in the theater. — Bill Tilden Copy Share Image
My training and ballet background definitely gives me the competitive edge on the ice. — Nathan Chen Copy Share Image
I was very serious about ballet until the age of 12, at which point my body changed, and it wasn't quite right. — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
I go to ballet five days a week. I would love to go to a fashion show one day, because I never… — Elle Fanning Copy Share Image
I'm not fond of the idea of doing ballet for ballet's sake, because dancers get exploited and they're not paid well. They… — Sergei Polunin Copy Share Image
Well, I took ballet for many, many years, so my whole childhood really revolved around dance class. I grew up around dance;… — Amy Sherman-Palladino Copy Share Image
“grace that her training had made natural for her. Did she ever think of ballet, now? Madame Aleksander wondered.” — Helen MacInnes Copy Share Image
I think most dancers would agree that the art of ballet chooses the dancer, not the other way around. — Kevin McKenzie Copy Share Image
Baseball is beautiful…the supreme performing art. It combines in perfect harmony the magnificent features of ballet, drama, art, and ingenuity. — Bowie Kuhn Copy Share Image
My family was artistic and encouraged me to express myself. I was a show-off, so they took me to ballet class. — Sofia Boutella Copy Share Image
“The whole Esther Williams of it all. The ostrich ballet. Like pirouetting feather dusters; their paddle feet in fourth position.” — Durga Chew-Bose Copy Share Image
I'd quit ballet school, which I thought was going to be my path, but my gut instinct told me to do something… — Alicia Vikander Copy Share Image
Each time a dancer moves devoutly or a composer faithfully searches the silence for the veiled melodies, eternity is engaged. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
It is shameful that dancing should renounce the empire it might assert over the mind and only endeavor to please the sight. — Jean-Georges Noverre Copy Share Image
Sometimes during a ballet I'll look around and see all these rows of intent faces, concentrating on this beautiful thing up on… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
Ballet class is like Life Lessons 101. You learn some of life's most important lessons here that you will carry with you forever. — Joanne H Morscher Copy Share Image
I started with ballet, and once I started to really like it, I got into more - I did jazz and tap,… — Maddie Ziegler Copy Share Image
The ballet world is so competitive, and for no reason. It's not a sport. It's an art. There's no winner. — Sergei Polunin Copy Share Image
I'd make all schoolchildren take ballet lessons every morning. And I'd ban advertising aimed at children. — Helen Baxendale Copy Share Image
I don't feel like my life is that of a superstar! Every day I wake up, I take the train, I go… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
