I trained as a ballet dancer - well, I started when I was two and a half, and was serious about it… — Jessica Brown Findlay Copy Share Image
Dance is like life. It exists as you are flitting through it, and when it's over, it's done. — Jerome Robbins Copy Share Image
I didn't know if I could act, but I knew I could be a great ballet dancer, and Balanchine put out the… — Jacques d'Amboise Copy Share Image
...all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing. — Moliere Copy Share Image
“It's a well-known fact. All women are clinically insane, but especially ballet dancers. Psycho. extremely psycho. Trust me.” — Marisa de los Santos Copy Share Image
Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for -- liberation. — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
I was a ballet dancer and that kind of bled into musical theater. I was constantly in rehearsal for one thing or… — Jennifer Garner Copy Share Image
I really wanted to make it as a ballet dancer to make my mom proud. But it didnt happen. — Tracy Anderson Copy Share Image
The discipline that ballet requires is obsessive. And only the ones who dedicate their whole lives are able to make it. Your… — Penelope Cruz 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
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
You cannot help but watch ballet dancers like Precious Adams without realizing that a classical ballerina can be black. However, talking about… — Michaela DePrince 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
She trained as a ballet dancer yet she was an iron fist in a velvet glove. My younger brother Luca and I… — Sean Hepburn Ferrer Copy Share Image
I came from the musical stage. My first show was '110 In The Shade.' I started as a ballet dancer and then… — Lesley Ann Warren Copy Share Image
I taught and studied dance in college, and for over a decade, I thought that would be my career: tap dancer, ballet… — Margo Price 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
Ballet dancers are a self-chosen elite. To survive and surmount years of disciplinary preparation and seasons of even more arduous performance requires… — Lincoln Kirstein Copy Share Image
“She loved hockey. Loved the speed, the agility. The fights. The men. Brawny, sweaty, messy. They let their hair grown, though no… — Stephanie Julian Copy Share Image
I was a ballet dancer for so long, but when I realized I had reached my limit and that I couldn't go… — Zoe Saldana Copy Share Image
“How long the party lasted Forrester did not know. He remembered a long harangue in which the drunken ballet dancer was trying… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
“It was a “Come As Your Childhood Ambition” theme party. You know: vets, pilots, ballet dancers…I really did always want to be… — Gemma Burgess Copy Share Image
“But he had never seen Myrna in practice...never that close up. He had been impressed and a little frightened by the contrast… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Myrna was part of a ballet troupe and Jack had seen her and the other dancers perform—his mother often made him go… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“England once there lived a big And wonderfully clever pig. To everybody it was plain That Piggy had a massive brain. He… — Roald Dahl 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
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 was a ballet dancer growing up and that's what I was convinced I would be. — Candice Swanepoel 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
As a little girl, I didn't dream of being a ballet dancer; I dreamt of being a movie star like Ginger Rogers… — Darcey Bussell Copy Share Image
I knew I wanted to be a ballet dancer, but what kind, I wasn't sure. My two dream companies had been New… — Wendy Whelan Copy Share Image
Dance exists first on this primordial level, not on an intellectual plane (even though it requires skill and intelligence). Its inmost substance… — Sondra Horton Fraleigh 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
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 grew up learning ballet and then I took up contemporary as I got older. I probably thought I was going to… — Elizabeth Debicki Copy Share Image
“Think of a ballet dancer at the barre. Plie, eleve, battement tendu. She is practicing, because she knows that there is no… — Dani Shapiro 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
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
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
