I'm so fair that I didn't go in the sun as a child. When all my friends were on the beach, I… — Miranda Otto Copy Share Image
I'd like to be able to get more girls to play guitar. I think with a girl playing electric guitar, sometimes it's… — Orianthi Copy Share Image
So many dancers rely on some sort of magic happening on the stage. They never, for various reasons, work full out in… — Benjamin Harkarvy Copy Share Image
The contemporary programs in London are harder and much more damaging for the body. With classical ballet you are relaxed mentally because… — Sergei Polunin Copy Share Image
I feel like I represent every young dancer, and even non-dancer, who felt they were not accepted by the ballet world. I'd… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
Ballet is the repetitive training of the body for the purpose of executing steps in traditional fashion. It is tied to and… — Shirley MacLaine Copy Share Image
A lot of people have a lot of faith in Karole Armitage. They see her as bold, inventive, indefatigable. 'America isn't working… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
I just realized I wanted to do more than ballet. I was offered an apprenticeship, so I was about to join a… — Margaret Qualley Copy Share Image
Even though I am a professional, and I know what the steps are, I don't quite know how I'm going to do… — Suzanne Farrell Copy Share Image
My family didn't have very much money, so ballet wasn't even on my radar; I just found it randomly when I was… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
How can you live the high life if you do not wear high heels? I don't understand why women wear these ballet… — Sonia Rykiel Copy Share Image
Wrestling used to be interesting. There was a bit of sham involved, of course, but there was some real wrestling involved. They're… — Shane MacGowan Copy Share Image
You know when you believe in Christmas? I was like that with ballet. I thought I would reach a level where I'd… — Sergei Polunin Copy Share Image
Ballet is a healthy world despite what people might think. There's a perception that ballet dancers are skinny and unhealthy, but that's… — Darcey Bussell Copy Share Image
Clearly, the pleasures wines afford are transitory - but so are those of the ballet, or of a musical performance. Wine is… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Ballet in September used to be dead as a dodo. Now, with City Ballet's ingenious decision to give us four weeks of… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
I joined the Royal Ballet School when I was 13. Before then, I'd done ballet twice a week after school. The rest… — Darcey Bussell Copy Share Image
The dance, just as the performance of the actor, is kinesthetic art, art of the muscle sense. The awareness of tension and… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
Boxing is my real passion. I can go to ballet, theatre, movies, or other sporting events... and nothing is like the fights… — LeRoy Neiman Copy Share Image
I dreamt of becoming a ballet dancer. I studied with the Royal Academy of London for 11 years, and that did not… — Diane Kruger Copy Share Image
I played soccer and baseball, and that's all. But what if I had been the best at like, ballet? And I didn't… — Spencer Pratt Copy Share Image
Spectacular sporting events are bread & circuses. The Superbowl, for instance, is anything but "super". It is a Petri dish under the… — Dean Cavanagh Copy Share Image
I actually was a ballet dancer - I studied ballet from three until 13 - but like very seriously, that's what I… — Solange Knowles Copy Share Image
My philosophy on choreography is that the making of a ballet is a team effort, and we're in this together. It's not… — Justin Peck Copy Share Image
The minute we don't finance the arts, the accountants, attorneys and politicians keep taking the cream of money off the top and… — Carmen Dell'Orefice Copy Share Image
Rather than opera, football is more like ballet or a chess game. You can really see it in a team like Arsenal,… — Marcus du Sautoy Copy Share Image
When she goes about her kitchen duties, chopping, carving, mixing, whisking, she moves with the grace and precision of a ballet dancer,… — Craig Claiborne Copy Share Image
Edgar Degas's famous sculpture, 'Little Dancer Aged Fourteen,' served as my muse for 'The Painted Girls.' I came upon a television documentary… — Cathy Marie Buchanan Copy Share Image
“I love ballet and am more interested in it than in anything else. . . . For the only form of scenic… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
Back in high school, about two years ago, I was in this silly punk band called Ballet for Athletes. We were all… — Mister Lies Copy Share Image
I wake up every morning, and I go to ballet class no matter what's going on the night before. That's my priority,… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
I think that probably the moments of discovery do come from a place that is not totally organized. Order is something that… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Dance has been a driving force in my life for 25 years. From music videos and hip hop, to jazz and musical… — Anna Kaiser Copy Share Image
I set as my goal to be the best dancer I could be. Not the most famous, or the highest paid dancer,… — Suzanne Farrell Copy Share Image
“Life can be a wonderful ballet, letting us express all the values we are living for if the sky of our imagination… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
We determine whether a book is for boys or girls long before the reader gets a chance to decide: we package them… — Marie Lu Copy Share Image
In order to dance professionally, you have to start at a young age. No matter what, your muscle structure and your bones… — Amanda Schull Copy Share Image
Most ballerinas take their first ballet class when they are 5 or 6 years old. I was 13 when I took mine… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
I have learned a great deal from the theatrical side of Covent Garden. The Paris Opera Ballet is more concerned with technique.… — Sylvie Guillem Copy Share Image
“I feel his arm Lightly Over me. He takes one of my outstretched hands. Draws it beneath my stomach. "One more time..."… — Stasia Ward Kehoe Copy Share Image
