Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important. — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
I've always had a crazy sense of humor. So the ballet probably wouldn't have been enough for me. I had to clown… — Chita Rivera Copy Share Image
When life takes me on a new journey, I simply remember the smile my first ballet recital put on my face and… — Andrea Thompson Copy Share Image
Ballet technique is arbitrary and very difficult. It never becomes easy...it becomes possible. — Agnes De Mille Copy Share Image
The focus of our family life was homework and what was for dinner; getting to ballet rehearsal and getting my brother to… — Lily Rabe Copy Share Image
I didn't know if I could act, but I knew I could be a great ballet dancer, and Balanchine put out the… — Jacques d'Amboise Copy Share Image
You can't drink on an eight hour flight, pass out, and then go onstage... well you can, but then you're Spandau Ballet. — Robert Smith Copy Share Image
I was used to having a job - ballet was my job, and I felt like I needed something artistic to focus… — Margaret Qualley Copy Share Image
I have a lot of intention behind what I put out there. The reason all this stuff I do works together, the… — Ben Sollee Copy Share Image
I was a daughterless mother. I had nowhere to put the things a mother places on her daughter. The nail polish I… — Ann Hood Copy Share Image
Ballet is always about the realm of possibilities, the realm of what the human body can do, what the human spirit can… — John Guare Copy Share Image
I've got used to the fact - just about - that whatever I do is going to be compared to the other… — John Lennon 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
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
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
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
Without dancing you can never attain a perfectly graceful carriage, which is of the highest importance in life. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
In ballet, it doesn't matter who you are. If you're good, it's such a rare thing, so unusual, that the talent will… — Francesca Hayward Copy Share Image
I always knew I was a bit different from my friends, had too much energy, and suddenly I could get it all… — Darcey Bussell Copy Share Image
I'm a classical ballet dancer, and at the end of the day I want to be with American Ballet Theater, performing classical… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
I take class. I'm always ballet ready. I'm ready to go - got my tights and my shoes. — Joan Chen Copy Share Image
I love ballet, and it's a little boring for me to go to the gym because I'm used to the dancing discipline… — Penelope Cruz Copy Share Image
The Kirov is a great ballet company because it has so many terrific dancers, but it doesn't always know what to do… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
My company, Ballet Beautiful, is built around celebrating the strength and femininity of the female body - for me, pregnancy has just… — Mary Helen Bowers Copy Share Image
My world was a community ballet school, a marching band, my two sisters and my girlfriends. I played saxophone in the band… — Jennifer Garner Copy Share Image
I am both proud and honored to be on the Board of Directors for the Texas Ballet Theater. — Janine Turner Copy Share Image
“You consider me for a moment, perhaps balancing the weight of your fear against the loneliness you will later feel in your… — Guy Mankowski Copy Share Image
I feel that while my body's able and I'm young, I'd have so many regrets if I didn't go for it now… — Francesca Hayward Copy Share Image
“Show me a person who found love in his life and did not celebrate it with a dance.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
The ballet of the good city sidewalk never repeats itself from place to place, and in any one place is always replete… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
My mom always wanted me be a ballerina, and I was just adamant that I wanted to be a track star. I… — Emayatzy E. Corinealdi Copy Share Image
I grew up on 'Center Stage.' I was a ballet dancer when that movie came out, and Zoe Saldana is the North… — Monica Barbaro Copy Share Image
Life is a dancewhether it is hip-hop, ballet, or jazz. Each of us can choose the dance we want. We move in… — Kumar Anupam Copy Share Image
At the ballet, you really feel like you're in the presence of something outside the rest of your life. Higher than the… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
I really wanted to make it as a ballet dancer to make my mom proud. But it didn't happen. — Tracy Anderson Copy Share Image
I was in a competing company and have been dancing since I was four - ballet, tap, jazz, hip hop - so… — Tinashe Copy Share Image
“Dance to inspire, dance to freedom, life is about experiences so dance and let yourself become free.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
When I was very young I wanted to be an opera singer, a ballet dancer... The people I loved were a little… — FKA twigs Copy Share Image
“Through synergy of intellect, artistry and grace came into existence the blessing of a dancer.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
Ballet can be hard on your joints, and when you're on a movie set doing take after take, it can become really… — Mary Helen Bowers Copy Share Image
