I think that ballet is very good for the body. It's very similar to yoga, because you have to hold a position. — Carine Roitfeld Copy Share Image
I used to love ballet and I did it really, really intensely. But it came so much about achieving physical perfection, which… — Mia Wasikowska Copy Share Image
I have a personal trainer. But I tried boxing; I tried ballet. I tried everything to see what works best for my… — Barbara Palvin Copy Share Image
The ballet needs to tell its own story in such a way it can be received without having to be translated into… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Each morning I do my ballet class for one hour; after that, it means one hour less to get ready. — Carine Roitfeld Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I'd always wanted to take karate, but my parents wouldn't let me because I did a lot… — Adena Friedman Copy Share Image
My mom was a dance teacher, so she put me in dance school when I was a kid. I did everything. I… — Chris Messina Copy Share Image
If nobody comes to your shows, then it's modern dance. If everybody comes to your shows and no one likes it, is… — Mark Morris Copy Share Image
I remember vividly seeing 'Tarzan' and Fred Astaire, the Chaplin films, Fred Astaire musicals, MGM, because of my mother. She was just… — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
I give myself a Pilates/yoga hybrid mat class almost every day. I also continue to take ballet classes. Both of these practices… — Amanda Schull Copy Share Image
One of the eternal mysteries of ballet is how untalented choreographers find backers for their work, and then find good dancers to… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
I think American Ballet Theatre is setting that standard now for classical ballet, that you can dream big, and it doesn't matter… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
Coming near him like a ballet dancer she took a leap towards him, and he, frightened by her vehemence, and fearing that… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
In 1998, Vanity Fair asked me to write a big piece for them on the 50th anniversary of the New York City… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
As I got older, I started to do it more and more, and I wanted to learn all of the different types.… — Jillian Hervey Copy Share Image
I was always nervous about coming back to Australia which was a complete hangover of the days when I left when ballet… — Robert Helpmann Copy Share Image
Ballet is great for spatial awareness. It does wonders for your core and your flexibility and, of course, you have to exercise… — Angela Rippon Copy Share Image
“By disparaging ballet he succeeded very well in convincing the boys that ballet was not for Americans, that it was European in… — Walter Terry Copy Share Image
“Transcend the terrestrial; surpass the celestial, from nature’s hands when you receive the sublime pleasures of dance.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
Ballet for a rainy day Silent film of melting miracle play Dancing out there through my window To the backdrop of a… — Andy Partridge Copy Share Image
I did ballet and gymnastics, and then I started acting when I was eight - just doing amateur theater at a place… — Olivia Cooke Copy Share Image
Twyla Tharp set her sights on ballet, and ballet, hungry for major talent, succumbed. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
I went away when I was 9 to a ballet school. I thought I wanted to be a dancer, but eight years… — Juliet Mills Copy Share Image
I did ballet, tap and modern dance - I loved Janet Jackson with a passion - and I was good enough to… — Denise Lewis Copy Share Image
Ballet is very stiff and I can do a triple timestep but who knows what I will be like at Ballroom or… — John Whaite Copy Share Image
As ye sow, so shall ye reap. When a ballet company spends a lot of money on gimmicky pieces, it's stuck with… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Marco Christian; Homosexual Ballet star preforming in London, United Kingdom in the photograph I took the dust around him is chalk as… — Kyle MacDonald Copy Share Image
I was a ballet dancer and that kind of bled into musical theater. I was constantly in rehearsal for one thing or… — Jennifer Garner Copy Share Image
When I've done gymnastics, ballet or soccer - I was always trying to be the best. I'm really driven. Really driven. — Chloe Grace Moretz Copy Share Image
I think that ballet and skating definitely go hand in hand, especially growing up at Ballet West, which is an incredible academy. — Nathan Chen Copy Share Image
Noncooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent, so is the ballet. — Julia Child Copy Share Image
What's so wonderful about ballet is that it's mind-driven physicality. It's almost a Greek ideal of body, mind, and form. — Edward Villella Copy Share Image
In authoritarian societies, cultural institutions tend to become ideological proxies - think of the National Ballet in Cuba or the East German… — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
The first time I took a plane to dance in front of an audience outside France was when I was in the… — Sylvie Guillem Copy Share Image
I can remember being very keen to go to drama school at the age of eight, and practising ballet in my bedroom… — Carmen Ejogo Copy Share Image
I started taking ballet lessons when I was three and a half and I still take dance classes. — Oksana Baiul Copy Share Image
Muse of the many twinkling feet, whose charms are now extending up from legs to arms. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Some people seem to think that good dancers are born, but all the good dancers I have known are taught or trained.. — Fred Astaire Copy Share Image
My mum took me to the ballet at three, and that was the only time I sat still, with jaw open, mesmerised.… — Emma Rigby Copy Share Image
Our animals don't do drugs. Instead, we move them almost daily in a tightly choreographed ballet from pasture spot to pasture spot. — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
