Figure skating has been a great influence for me. I took dance at the School of American Ballet, which helped my own… — Vera Wang Copy Share Image
You realize you can get good at something, even though ballet almost felt like you could never be good enough. No matter… — Susanna Hoffs Copy Share Image
You have to be able to cut off from the ballet and relax, or you have anxiety dreams at night, worrying about… — Darcey Bussell Copy Share Image
It'd be very difficult to cast me as a ballet dancer. Everybody is, in some sense, controlled by their size and their… — Brian Dennehy Copy Share Image
I think 'Ballet Shoes' was a very pivotal role for me. I was about 14 then, and it was an incredible cast:… — Lucy Boynton Copy Share Image
I was the oldest of the children in my family. I had to do a lot of diaper-changing and lunch-making. I was… — Vin Diesel Copy Share Image
'The Firebird' just symbolizes a lot for me and my career. It was one of the first really big principal roles that… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
I began dancing when I was 7 years old. I was told that I had the perfect ballet dancers body and had… — Catherine Mary Stewart Copy Share Image
Yeah, I shoot. I shot with my dad a little bit when I was little. He was a Marine, so it wasn't… — Jill Wagner Copy Share Image
Ballet found me. I was discovered by a teacher in middle school. I always danced, my whole life. I never had any… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
My parents have always given me whatever I wanted. Took me to the ballet, the opera, museum exhibitions. I was always surrounded… — Bar Paly Copy Share Image
Dad worked in a warehouse when I was little and I didn't see him for three years as he was doing all… — Jennifer Ellison Copy Share Image
I've trained in dance for most of my life, but ballet was the thing I left behind the earliest because they felt… — Susan Kelechi Watson Copy Share Image
I've learned that there are many people out there who want to feel powerful and strong on their own terms, who want… — Mary Helen Bowers Copy Share Image
When I was 8, I began to study ballet. In seventh grade, my mother took me into New York to study at… — Dianne Wiest Copy Share Image
The muscles that are used in Ballet Beautiful are similar to those used in classic ballet. They're also muscles that don't get… — Mary Helen Bowers Copy Share Image
If we don't take that time (to be romantic), then it's karate, then it's ballet, and then there's Christmas, and then my… — Heidi Klum Copy Share Image
The ballet makes us look at those bodies, it makes us listen to that music, it makes us wonder at the geometry,… — John Guare Copy Share Image
The world loves a clone and a good knock-off. It cheats the artist... In the obsession for technical wizardry, people disappear; and… — Alonzo King Copy Share Image
We moved from the suburbs to L.A. and I picked up break dancing when I was 10. I joined a dance crew… — Doja Cat Copy Share Image
I went to the International Ballet competition when I was 15 or 16 and that was the first time I competed. I… — Joan Chen Copy Share Image
I always enjoy ballet when you can read the situation very precisely, when I could tell you exactly which sentence that person… — Francesca Hayward Copy Share Image
I was a ballerina for a good 12 years. When I was 15 I had to stop. It wasn't a choice, it… — Kiesza Copy Share Image
I started taking ballet lessons when I was 4, and I was performing in ballet companies when I was 10, and I… — Rita Rudner Copy Share Image
I was so invested in ballet, and it was my entire life. And then it was realizing that I didn't want it… — Margaret Qualley Copy Share Image
And then he danced,-all foreigners excel the serious Angels in the eloquence of pantomime;-he danced, I say, right well, with emphasis, and… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Before a show, I usually give myself two-and-a-half hours to get ready. I prepare my shoes first. New ballet pumps can sound… — Darcey Bussell Copy Share Image
My career came together very quickly. I only trained for four years before I became a professional, so I didn't have a… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
I was embarrassed that I even wanted to become an actress because coming from L.A., with two older sisters in the business… — Elizabeth Olsen Copy Share Image
People often say to me - how clever you are! How brilliant to be able to go from ballet to theatre as… — Robert Helpmann Copy Share Image
Look at a football field. It looks like a big movie screen. This is theatre. Football combines the strategy of chess. It's… — Steve Sabol Copy Share Image
My parents sent me to a ballet class which lasted no time at all - I couldn't really dance. So they sent… — Amanda Redman Copy Share Image
Another friend began to say, "Well, Quentin has a problem of adjusting himself to society and he..." This sentence was never finished.… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Culture in America and everywhere else comes from the suffering, from those who don't want the old ways. They want to bring… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
I was used to dancing, but only when someone told you what to do. So in the nightclub I was all over… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
Ballet really lends itself to that because there's such a sense of ritual, with wrapping the shoes every day and preparing new… — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
If Shanghai wants to be an international cultural center, they have to do something about that. The reason I left is that… — Yuan Yuan Tan Copy Share Image
Long experience has taught me that the crux of my fortunes is whether I can radiate good will toward my audience. There… — Howard Thurston Copy Share Image
Ballet is pure and demands that you serve something larger than yourself, whether it be beauty or art, or a combination of… — Peter Martins Copy Share Image
When I was young, I couldn't think about ballet because I had to focus on my own field. But once you secure… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
