You know, ballet might be too formal of a title for the type of dance I do, but I love to dance. — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
Ballet is an incredible art, but it can be a bit elitist, which is a really big turn off to me. — Mary Helen Bowers Copy Share Image
You increase muscle bulk by training against resistance. For example, weights. And in ballet, this isn't the case. — Deborah Bull Copy Share Image
After I finished 'Center Stage,' I went back to San Francisco, and I danced for seven seasons with the San Francisco Ballet. — Amanda Schull Copy Share Image
Figure skating is an unlikely Olympic event but its good television. It's sort of a combination of gymnastics and ballet. A little… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
Whenever I have had a sudden urge to quit dancing, I just remember that moment I had when I was young and… — Anna Pavlova Copy Share Image
I hated my girls' love of princesses, ballet and all things pink and glittery. I didn't want it foisted on them at… — Ulrika Jonsson Copy Share Image
The Royal Ballet School looked after me very well, they were like my family, and the company gave me everything. But I… — Sergei Polunin Copy Share Image
A lot of people have a lot of faith in Karole Armitage. They see her as bold, inventive, indefatigable. 'America isn't working… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
I just realized I wanted to do more than ballet. I was offered an apprenticeship, so I was about to join a… — Margaret Qualley Copy Share Image
Even though I am a professional, and I know what the steps are, I don't quite know how I'm going to do… — Suzanne Farrell Copy Share Image
Ballet is the repetitive training of the body for the purpose of executing steps in traditional fashion. It is tied to and… — Shirley MacLaine Copy Share Image
I feel like I represent every young dancer, and even non-dancer, who felt they were not accepted by the ballet world. I'd… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
I joined the Royal Ballet School when I was 13. Before then, I'd done ballet twice a week after school. The rest… — Darcey Bussell Copy Share Image
The dance, just as the performance of the actor, is kinesthetic art, art of the muscle sense. The awareness of tension and… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
Ballet in September used to be dead as a dodo. Now, with City Ballet's ingenious decision to give us four weeks of… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
I think that having a platform and having a voice to be seen by people beyond the classical ballet world has really… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
The Dance instills in you something that sets you apart. Something heroic and remote. — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
Being in ballet school and being in leotards in front of a mirror I don't know how many hours a day was… — Alicia Vikander Copy Share Image
The purpose of art is higher than art. What we are really interested in are masterpieces of humanity. — Alonzo King Copy Share Image
Everything has come to me without my having to look for it. I signed with Metro because someone thought I had talent,… — Cyd Charisse Copy Share Image
It's time for there to be roles in the ballet where two men can fall in love, and a woman can lead… — Justin Peck Copy Share Image
I come alive, in front of the mirror, skipping and dancing and acting the fool. Dance is both escape and excitement. — Jody Watley Copy Share Image
The worst thing about me is my toes. I've thick joints from wearing pointe ballet shoes - I went to a dance… — Pixie Lott Copy Share Image
The life of a dancer is tragically short. What is remarkable about the New York City Ballet is that it makes us… — John Guare Copy Share Image
I had the benefit of there being no stigma attached to the arts. My brother's a ballet dancer, and he never came… — Jack Lowden Copy Share Image
Young dancers are training at a very vulnerable time in their lives... So train the whole person, not just the dancer. — Deborah Bull Copy Share Image
We are constantly revealing ourselves to each other through our movement; learning from and teaching each other without even trying. — Wendy Whelan Copy Share Image
I think classical ballet dancers dance on pointe because they're simultaneously touching the earth and reaching up to the skies — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“NO greater love has a husband for his wife than to watch a 2hr documentary on an elite ballet competition.” — Mark Venturini Copy Share Image
The highest heels I do are six-inch heels - but mostly only dancers can wear them, since they are used to being… — Christian Louboutin Copy Share Image
You get more negative reactions than positive reactions as you go through life, and the big lesson is nobody counts you out… — Buddy Ebsen Copy Share Image
In order to dance well, nothing is so important as the turning outwards of the thigh; and nothing is so natural to… — Jean-Georges Noverre Copy Share Image
What I need to survive is food, water, shelter, love and ballet. If I didn't have any one of them I'd probably… — Michaela DePrince Copy Share Image
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
From the age of four, I loved ballet and tap. I was in the school band, the choir, and all my school… — Gugu Mbatha-Raw Copy Share Image
No matter what people tell you, you should focus on your goals and you should do what you want to do, especially… — Michaela DePrince Copy Share Image
Dancers work and live from the inside. They drive themselves constantly producing a glow that lights not only themselves but audience after… — Murray Louis Copy Share Image
You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I… — Patrick Swayze Copy Share Image
It takes a lot of money to be a part of the ballet world. Both the training and the supplies are expensive,… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
