The first good player I watched as a kid was Joe DiMaggio, and that was like ballet. Since then, I played sandlot… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
There's no agents or managers to represent them. Dancers don't have any voice. They have nothing. Nobody can afford a flat to… — Sergei Polunin Copy Share Image
Then come the lights shining on you from above. You are a performer. You forget all you learned, the process of technique,… — Shirley MacLaine Copy Share Image
I believe that we learn by practice... it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
I originally wanted to be a ballet dancer and trained for years, but when I was around 18, I realized I wasn't… — Helen Baxendale Copy Share Image
Nicholas Hytner, who directed Center Stage, is a huge ballet fan. He was completely open, as was Bruce Beresford, to get our… — Amanda Schull Copy Share Image
As a child I often wondered whether I would be allowed to live such moments- to inhabit the slow, majestic ballet of… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
Ballet is ultimately a logical technique; it favors the shortest, most efficient route from one position into another. This factor gives an… — Anna Paskevska Copy Share Image
The mystery of Christopher Wheeldon deepens. Yes, he's the most talented of the younger ballet choreographers - indeed, where's the competition? Yes,… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Dancing is a very living art. It is essentially of the moment, although a very old art. A dancer's art is lived… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
I suppose I'm the only person who remembers one of the most exciting of his ballets-it's the fruit of an unlikely collaboration… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
I came from the musical stage. My first show was '110 In The Shade.' I started as a ballet dancer and then… — Lesley Ann Warren Copy Share Image
I taught and studied dance in college, and for over a decade, I thought that would be my career: tap dancer, ballet… — Margo Price Copy Share Image
I was born in Toronto and studied with the National Ballet of Canada. I went to school to study dance, slept on… — Laurieann Gibson Copy Share Image
I have always been very conscious of my way of dressing. During my years as a ballet and flamenco dancer, I outshone… — Walter Mercado Copy Share Image
Mum was a brilliant classical pianist. She was Canadian and studied music at McGill University. She took me to ballet when I… — Caroline Quentin Copy Share Image
As a dancer, I know couples that have stayed married but separated to dance on different continents. Dance in general, but ballet… — Amanda Schull Copy Share Image
I found at a young age that emotions aren't always handled with talking and other emotions. I started ballet, seriously around fourteen,… — Michael Adam Hamilton Copy Share Image
I trained as a ballet dancer till I was 18, so I would really like to get back to it. I'd love… — Jessica Brown Findlay Copy Share Image
I skate about 15 to 20 hours a week and also incorporate a lot of off-ice training. I take ballet and Pilates… — Sasha Cohen Copy Share Image
I want the ballet world to be given the respect that it deserves and to be seen by more people - for… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
Finding ballet gave me passion for the first time in my life. I was always very shy and just wanted to fit… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
What really matters is that 'Black Swan' deploys and exaggerates all the cliches of earlier ballet movies, especially 'The Red Shoes,' another… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
She trained as a ballet dancer yet she was an iron fist in a velvet glove. My younger brother Luca and I… — Sean Hepburn Ferrer Copy Share Image
I push myself hard. I don't like pain, exactly, but as a ballerina, I lived in constant pain. At ballet school in… — Alicia Vikander Copy Share Image
Ballet Hispanico is a mixture of ethnic, ballet, social, jazz - you name it, it's doing it. The company has been going… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
I had danced with Janet Jackson and P. Diddy so I had done a bunch of hip hop. Really and truly my… — Jenna Dewan Copy Share Image
Fly fishing is the most beautiful way of trying to catch a fish; not the most efficient, just as ballet is the… — Howell Raines Copy Share Image
I was a massive fan of Amy Winehouse growing up. I decided it would be a good idea to become Amy Winehouse… — Mia Goth Copy Share Image
Dancing is an excellent amusement for young people, especially for those of sedentary occupations. Its excellence consists in exciting a cheerfulness of… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
I used to do ballet all the time, and I do this ballet workout: it is an amazing thing called Barrecore. It… — Rita Ora Copy Share Image
The dancer, or dancers, must transform the stage for the audience as well as for themselves into an autonomous, complete, virtual realm,… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
I'm enamored with the art world. Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic, there's a commercial world around it: the ballet,… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
In the ballet studio, it was such an organized and disciplined environment, like I'd never had in my life. Seeing myself in… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
Some people think that movements, such as the movements in ballet, are a higher cultural expression, whereas some are just dirt. I… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
Ballet might be too formal of a title for the type of dance I do, but I love to dance. I love… — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
Maybe people have no idea how much work is behind a picture. It can seem very effortless but there is a lot… — Carine Roitfeld Copy Share Image
I was called a bookish child. Mother sent me to a ballet teacher in Cincinnati when I was nine years old. I… — Vera-Ellen Copy Share Image
The only family I knew was the Royal Ballet and I didn't feel I was part of it in a way. I… — Sergei Polunin Copy Share Image
The best seat in the house often depends on the ballet. For instance, much of the first act of 'The Nutcracker' is… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
