“Burdened no more is soul for whom life flows through dance like breath.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
I've never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer. — Bebe Neuwirth Copy Share Image
“Caution not spirit, let it roam wild; for in that natural state dance embraces divine frequency.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
I'd say the only time I ever get nervous is around great ballet dancers or people I really admire. — Dita Von Teese Copy Share Image
I know that dancers, especially ballet dancers, can't do it forever. — Kelli Berglund Copy Share Image
Sing like there's nobody listening, And live like it's heaven on earth. — William Watson Purkey Copy Share Image
“Limit not to only five, when the divine gifts the supreme sixth; the sense of dance” — Shah Asad Rizvi 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
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 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
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
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
“Dance as the narration of a magical story; that recites on lips, illuminates imaginations and embraces the most sacred depths of souls.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
I was embarrassed that I even wanted to become an actress because coming from L.A., with two older sisters in the business… — Elizabeth Olsen 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
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
“...It Isn't actually much of an encouragement to me to read the stories about Jesus. I might as well take encouragement from… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
I was always nervous about coming back to Australia which was a complete hangover of the days when I left when ballet… — Robert Helpmann 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… — Joan Chen Copy Share Image
That kind of friendship doesn't just materialize at the end of the rainbow one morning in a soft-focus Hollywood haze. For it… — Tana French 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
“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'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
“O wayfarer! Yearn finds quench, not in meadows, seashores or altitude of mountain peaks; but when being and dance are one.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
For ballet dancers, style is about melding personal expression with physical form. — Mary Helen Bowers Copy Share Image
“Life is an affair of mystery; shared with companions of music, dance and poetry.” — Shah Asad Rizvi 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
When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire. — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
Dance till the stars come down from the rafters Dance, Dance, Dance 'till you drop. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Technical perfection is insufficient. It is an orphan without the true soul of the dancer. — Sylvie Guillem 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
“O wayfarer! Yearn finds quench, not in meadows, seashores or altitude of mountain peaks; but when being becomes dance.” — Shah Asad Rizvi 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
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
Letting go of perfectionism, so ingrained in the nature of a ballet dancer, can be the most difficult thing. — Anonymous 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
