My years of ballet and jazz dance lessons didn't make me any more graceful - they just helped keep me from bumping… — Toni Tennille Copy Share Image
I know that I'm talented, and I know that I'm not in American Ballet Theater because I'm black - I'm here because… — Misty Copeland 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
I went to the Performing Arts School and studied classical ballet. That attitude is something that's put into your head. You are… — Carmen Electra Copy Share Image
I've been wearing makeup for as long as I can remember. I started by playing with my mom's lipsticks, then in ballet… — Tommy Dorfman Copy Share Image
What I love most about ballet is being able to express my emotions through dance, and to be able to bring others… — Michaela DePrince Copy Share Image
I hated the ballet, but I liked performing. I did 20 shows, and I couldn't get the smile off my face. — Ansel Elgort 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
My philosophy on choreography is that the making of a ballet is a team effort, and we're in this together. It's not… — Justin Peck Copy Share Image
Most ballerinas take their first ballet class when they are 5 or 6 years old. I was 13 when I took mine… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
We determine whether a book is for boys or girls long before the reader gets a chance to decide: we package them… — Marie Lu 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
“Life can be a wonderful ballet, letting us express all the values we are living for if the sky of our imagination… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
I think that probably the moments of discovery do come from a place that is not totally organized. Order is something that… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
I wake up every morning, and I go to ballet class no matter what's going on the night before. That's my priority,… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
I set as my goal to be the best dancer I could be. Not the most famous, or the highest paid dancer,… — Suzanne Farrell Copy Share Image
“It's dancing! It's magical, actually. A kind of slowish magic. Like writing with your feet.” — Katherine Rundell 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
I realize how much ballet gave me, and because of ballet, I’m known as a graceful gymnast. — Svetlana Boginskaya Copy Share Image
I took several years of dance lessons that included ballet, tap and jazz. They helped a great deal with body control, balance,… — Lynn Swann Copy Share Image
My sister was in ballet growing up. I spent almost the entirety of 7 through 12 backstage at Lincoln Center, just running… — Timothee Chalamet Copy Share Image
I've always been excited by the strangeness of ballet, but I can't bear it when people just come forward and do a… — Matthew Bourne Copy Share Image
My family were so poor. My mum would clean houses to maybe get me to a ballet class, bless her. — Claudia Jessie Copy Share Image
I think that every year that the New York City Ballet is alive is worthy of celebration. Because otherwise the terrible thing… — John Guare 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
Ballet is number one, everything else is scheduled in the small windows when I'm not in the studio taking class, rehearsing, on… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
Some Russian ballet master woman said there's no culture in America, but if you look you can find interesting stuff in this… — Robert Duvall 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
Cincinnatians support a symphony, an opera, a ballet, museums, many galleries and theater groups. — Bill Dedman Copy Share Image
The pointes for girls, I always say, have to be like an elephant's trunk; strong and yet flexible and soft. — George Balanchine 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
Ballet is not technique but a way of expression that comes more closely to the inner language of man than any other. — George Borodin Copy Share Image
In the world of classical ballet there are only a handful of story ballets, so getting a new one is cause for… — Karen Kain Copy Share Image
At aged eleven, you're learning taking criticism every day and making it a positive thing - otherwise you will never make it… — Francesca Hayward Copy Share Image
I could never make a ballet by wrinkling my brow and concentrating. If you set out deliberately to make a masterpiece, how… — George Balanchine Copy Share Image
I've always been a bit of a poser. I was chucked out of ballet lessons for looking in the mirror. — Abbey Clancy Copy Share Image
I had 10 wonderful years in Spandau Ballet. It was an incredible way to grow up, to hang out with your best… — Martin Kemp Copy Share Image
I've been dancing all my life and studied at Joffrey Ballet when I was 13 and singing all my life. — Melora Hardin Copy Share Image
Don't you think you're quite young?' 'I'm twenty-one,' said Brida. 'If I wanted to start learning ballet, I'd be conseidered too old. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“When you can be still and still dance, you are a great dancer. When you can move and still be still, you… — Donna Goddard Copy Share Image
