Dance is an art that imprints on the soul. It is with you every moment, it expresses itself in everything you do. — Shirley MacLaine Copy Share Image
I think most dancers would agree that the art of ballet chooses the dancer, not the other way around. — Kevin McKenzie Copy Share Image
I'd rather be a guy that can build a house or fix a car than be able to walk like a ballet… — Travis Fimmel Copy Share Image
I had been a ballet dancer and never could make a living, and just being so excited that I got to, all… — Lea Thompson Copy Share Image
Letting go of perfectionism, so ingrained in the nature of a ballet dancer, can be the most difficult thing. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ballet, dance, movement, performance - it is the bedrock of why I love to perform. — Lily Gladstone Copy Share Image
So I'm studying ballet every day and really training so people will see me as a ballet dancer, which no one's seen… — Sutton Foster Copy Share Image
When I was 3 years old, my parents put me in ballet and I really thought I was gonna be a ballet… — Helene Yorke 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
Tap was against everything I had learned to do. I was pulled up as a ballet dancer, and I wasn't used to… — Cyd Charisse Copy Share Image
The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit… — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
As a professional ballet dancer, I have to accept that weekends are about work. The notion of a leisurely break with all… — Sylvie Guillem Copy Share Image
I went to 'The Nutcracker' every year with my grandma and aunt. Then, in my early teen years, I thought I wanted… — Jinkx Monsoon Copy Share Image
In swimming at my level it's about control of the small movements. A good ballet dancer floats across the stage, the best… — Alexander Dale Oen Copy Share Image
Ballet is not technique, not a way of doing things, but a means of expression that comes perhaps more closely to the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Coming near him like a ballet dancer she took a leap towards him, and he, frightened by her vehemence, and fearing that… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“But to me, the argument is just semantics, an exercise in mental masturbation. True, Degas painted neither plein air nor spontaneously, but… — Barbara A. Shapiro Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be an actor. I was one of those lucky kids - or cursed kids - who always knew… — Tim Matheson Copy Share Image
I've usually never felt comfortable shooting until things were kind of claustrophobic, but ballet dancers need a lot of space, so the… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to… — Merce Cunningham Copy Share Image
“Did any of you ever see Doctor Tetrazzini perform? I say perform advisedly because his operations were performances. He would start by… — William Burroughs Copy Share Image
The average parent may, for example, plant an artist or fertilize a ballet dancer and end up with a certified public accountant.… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
I was a ballet dancer. I did other kinds of dance but ballet was my great love. But then it became clear,… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
Fonteyn was our first proper British ballerina, and from the moment I started dancing, her image engulfed me. In my first year… — Darcey Bussell Copy Share Image
It's what I always wanted to do, to show the laughter, the fun, the joy of dance. — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts. — Ritchie Blackmore Copy Share Image
Making the ballet really taught me how to get things moving. Ballet dancers don't stand still. — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a ballet dancer. I was bad - I'm not very coordinated. But I always wished I could have… — Gia Coppola Copy Share Image
I did community theater in Georgia and called myself a ballet dancer. — Laura Slade Wiggins Copy Share Image
Technical perfection is insufficient. It is an orphan without the true soul of the dancer. — Sylvie Guillem Copy Share Image
Dance till the stars come down from the rafters Dance, Dance, Dance 'till you drop. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
I've always been a figure skater and ballet dancer. I love physical comedy, and any chance that I get to do that...… — Allison Janney Copy Share Image
I grew up in San Francisco, and I trained as a ballet dancer until college. — Chloe Benjamin Copy Share Image
I've won my last four matches by knockout. Out of 30 fights, I've won more than 20 by knockout. I think that… — Sergio Martinez Copy Share Image
If I'm at a party, I can put on some crazy dance moves. However, it's not synchronized, beautiful or choreographed like a… — Sierra McCormick 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
“Ask any ice-skater or ballet dancer or show jumper, anyone who lives by beautiful moving things: nothing takes as much work as… — Tana French 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
'Swan Lake' is the most difficult thing to portray for a female ballet dancer; it really requires such specific qualities of articulation,… — Benjamin Millepied Copy Share Image
