I need a big wave to really excel. The smaller stuff is a bit like...ballet for me. — Laird Hamilton Copy Share Image
Since I was a child I've loved going to the opera, theatre and ballet. — Christian Lacroix Copy Share Image
Ballet I love for about five minutes. Then I want to see a comic come out. — Fred Willard Copy Share Image
I can remember being very keen to go to drama school at the age of eight, and practising ballet in my bedroom… — Carmen Ejogo Copy Share Image
In authoritarian societies, cultural institutions tend to become ideological proxies - think of the National Ballet in Cuba or the East German… — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
The first time I took a plane to dance in front of an audience outside France was when I was in the… — Sylvie Guillem Copy Share Image
What's so wonderful about ballet is that it's mind-driven physicality. It's almost a Greek ideal of body, mind, and form. — Edward Villella Copy Share Image
Noncooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent, so is the ballet. — Julia Child Copy Share Image
I think that ballet and skating definitely go hand in hand, especially growing up at Ballet West, which is an incredible academy. — Nathan Chen Copy Share Image
When I've done gymnastics, ballet or soccer - I was always trying to be the best. I'm really driven. Really driven. — Chloe Grace Moretz 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 was so invested in ballet, and it was my entire life. And then it was realizing that I didn't want it… — Margaret Qualley Copy Share Image
I started taking ballet lessons when I was 4, and I was performing in ballet companies when I was 10, and I… — Rita Rudner Copy Share Image
I went to the International Ballet competition when I was 15 or 16 and that was the first time I competed. I… — Joan Chen Copy Share Image
I always enjoy ballet when you can read the situation very precisely, when I could tell you exactly which sentence that person… — Francesca Hayward Copy Share Image
I was a ballerina for a good 12 years. When I was 15 I had to stop. It wasn't a choice, it… — Kiesza Copy Share Image
We moved from the suburbs to L.A. and I picked up break dancing when I was 10. I joined a dance crew… — Doja Cat Copy Share Image
Ballet really lends itself to that because there's such a sense of ritual, with wrapping the shoes every day and preparing new… — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
If Shanghai wants to be an international cultural center, they have to do something about that. The reason I left is that… — Yuan Yuan Tan Copy Share Image
I wear Jordans when I'm in the ring, alright? This isn't ballet, you know? — Enzo Amore Copy Share Image
I had some ballet training but didn't like it. It was like a game to me. — Fred Astaire Copy Share Image
Dance is very, very old. With Louis XIV at Versailles is where ballet started. — Neve Campbell Copy Share Image
My personal trainer is an ex-dancer so we do a lot of ballet and jazz. — Rachel Stevens Copy Share Image
I wanted so badly to study ballet, but it was really all about wearing the tutu. — Elle Macpherson Copy Share Image
