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
To handle paint the way Pollock did, you need the muscularity of a ballet dancer. — Pat Steir 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
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
When I was very young I wanted to be an opera singer, a ballet dancer... The people I loved were a little… — FKA twigs Copy Share Image
I announced at the dinner table when I was 11 that I wanted to be a ballet dancer. But my goal changed… — Ann Reinking Copy Share Image
Being a ballet dancer isn't cool. Football, boxing, hockey... they're cool. And you make more money. — Sergei Polunin Copy Share Image
Sing like there's nobody listening, And live like it's heaven on earth. — William Watson Purkey Copy Share Image
Being a dark black ballet dancer, there's a lot of pressure on us. I feel like I have to work ten times… — Michaela DePrince 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
I grew up with classical music when I was a ballet dancer. Now when I have to prepare an emotional scene, to… — Diane Kruger Copy Share Image
If I had to reflect on the finest classical male ballet dancers of my time, Vladimir Vasiliev of the Bolshoi and the… — Jacques d'Amboise Copy Share Image
“Doctor Benway is operating in an auditorium filled with students: "Now, boys, you won't see this operation performed very often and there's… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Do you know what I've learned? That although ecstasy is the ability to stand outside yourself, dance is a way of rising… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Somewhere in there the grace of a ballet dancer joins with the strength of an SAS squaddie, the dignity of an ancient… — Eamon Dunphy 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 thought I was going to be a ballet dancer for awhile there. I had a good teacher at Interlochen, this arts'… — Benjamin Walker Copy Share Image
It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.'… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
I trained as a ballet dancer and fell in love with Rudolf Nureyev; I thought him the most beautiful creature. My mum… — Jessica Brown Findlay 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
When I was younger, people would always say, 'Are you a ballet dancer?' I had that look - one of those skinny… — Miranda Otto Copy Share Image
Technical perfection is insufficient. It is an orphan without the true soul of the dancer. — Sylvie Guillem 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
