You go to the ballet and you see girls dancing on their tiptoes. Why don't they just get taller girls? — Greg Ray 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
I'd always been one of the best in my gymnastics school, so I transferred to trying to be the best dancer, without… — Sergei Polunin 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
I've spent a lot of time playing Bach partitas. One of my first jobs was to play for ballet and modern classes,… — Caroline Shaw 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
Physical fears change and shift depending on the role and depending on the mindset I'm in. — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
I was in ballet classes, I took singing lessons, I started taking acting classes as a hobby. When I was younger, I… — Lexi Underwood Copy Share Image
Whether it was 'The Krays' or 'EastEnders' or the songs in Spandau Ballet, if you do a good job or make something… — Martin Kemp Copy Share Image
I definitely have been nervous, but often I get more nervous performing with the corps de ballet than doing a solo. There's… — Francesca Hayward Copy Share Image
I am most excited about reaching out to young girls who dream of a career in ballet, especially to African-American young girls,… — Michaela DePrince Copy Share Image
Ballet targets smaller muscles that you don't often use - instead of working your quads, it works the inside and the back… — Mary Helen Bowers Copy Share Image
One of the most beautiful sights in dance is American Ballet Theatre in full flight. — Clive Barnes Copy Share Image
Ballet became this escape for me. I feel like I was on my own a lot. I was searching for stability, so… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
I didn't grow up on dance class. I was always natural. I've been in the industry since I was eight and I've… — Marques Houston 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
“Sometimes in life confusion tends to arise and only dialogue of dance seems to make sense.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
The most essential thing in dance discipline is devotion, the steadfast and willing devotion to the labor that makes the classwork not… — Merce Cunningham Copy Share Image
My sisters did ballet when we were younger and I remember sitting in the car with my dad and going 'can we… — Stephanie Gilmore Copy Share Image
Sometimes during a ballet I'll look around and see all these rows of intent faces, concentrating on this beautiful thing up on… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
I did ballet, tap, jazz, modern, I taught dance here in my hometown of St. Louis. — Phyllis Smith Copy Share Image
“Music and Dancing, not only give great pleasure but have the honour of depending on Mathematics, for they consist in number and… — Charles Sorel Copy Share Image
The world bursts at the seams with people ready to tell you you're not good enough. On occasion, some may be correct.… — Keith Olbermann Copy Share Image
