I eat healthily, I do ballet and exercise, and I'm toned and tight, but I take up space, and I don't aspire… — Rachael Stirling Copy Share Image
Ballet Beautiful has made my pregnancy a joy. I've avoided back pain and swelling by keeping my core strong and body moving. — Mary Helen Bowers Copy Share Image
In terms of withstanding incredible amounts of pain - both physical and emotional - I don't think there's any better training than… — Julia Jones Copy Share Image
Well, that's why ballet is one of the hardest disciplines - you kind of stay childlike, because you never really experience childhood,… — Sergei Polunin Copy Share Image
There might've been wires, but I have this ability to make myself light. Well you know what, in ballet, when you kind… — Albert Finney Copy Share Image
Transplanting the ballet to the United States is like trying to raise a palm tree in Dakota. — Lincoln Kirstein Copy Share Image
It's very easy to become selfish and narrow-minded and see ballet as the only thing in life, but there's lots more. — Darcey Bussell Copy Share Image
When you're a child, you take things for granted. For instance, my mum didn't have a lot of money, but I went… — Holliday Grainger Copy Share Image
“Simplicity itself is the key. Education in ballet, dance, martial arts, etc., is done through poses, or to be more precise, through… — Nicholas Romanov Copy Share Image
For Nine, I had to rehearse a number for three months...That was the only way to do that, I had singing teachers… — Penelope Cruz Copy Share Image
I want a big man physically as well as intellectually. l want a man with the thigh muscles to give me a… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
That something that I fought so hard for throughout the beginning of my career is I didn't want to pancake my skin… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
I was brought up on the Fine Young Cannibals' music and Roland was a hero when I lived in Hull. My dad… — Lucy Beaumont Copy Share Image
I was really creative. I started to dance very young. I loved to dance. I begged my mother to put me into… — Laverne Cox Copy Share Image
“It’s okay to dress up like another person, but never try to be someone else. Just try to be yourself, because that’s… — Jeff Hutchins Copy Share Image
“Dreaming at the Ballet" The truth is, goddesses are lousy in bed. They will do anything it’s true. And the skin is… — Jack Gilbert Copy Share Image
I think it was important that I learned to love to dance eventually for its own sake, as opposed to wanting to… — Suzanne Farrell Copy Share Image
I think the leotard for me became, after I retired, a sort of a symbol of the confines of still fitting into… — Wendy Whelan Copy Share Image
My mom tried to get me on ballet. 'Walter Payton did it! Walter Payton did it!' I'm just not messing with ballet. — Le'Veon Bell 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
Ballet targets smaller muscles that you don't often use - instead of working your quads, it works the inside and the back… — Mary Helen Bowers Copy Share Image
I've been very physical my whole life. I've done a lot of ballet, fencing and karate, and everything. — Ashley Bell Copy Share Image
Please send me your last pair of shoes, worn out with dancing as you mentioned in your letter, so that I might… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I grew up in Honolulu. It's not the ballet cultural mecca by any stretch of the imagination. People are much more familiar… — Joan Chen Copy Share Image
There would never have been a British Ballet without Diaghilev. He had a wonderful influence — Ninette de Valois Copy Share Image
I did ballet, jazz and flamenco from when I was five years old. And my professional career started with dancing in musicals. — Jennifer Lopez Copy Share Image
If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts. — Ritchie Blackmore Copy Share Image
I was serious about ballet for a long time, but my mom got me into tap and jazz and modern and hip-hop,… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
All dancers have a cumulative tendency, because each beat of the tom-tom has an almost irresistible appeal. Soon, those who were just… — Camara Laye Copy Share Image
I wasn't a competitor. I would play outside with my friends, but not really anything like ballet or soccer. I tried to… — Sibel Kekilli Copy Share Image
I only started writing in the latter days of Spandau Ballet. I didnt know I could write because all had our roles… — Tony Hadley Copy Share Image
My genuine passion for dance was born watching Ballet Rambert perform Christopher Bruce's harrowing 'Ghost Dances.' — Robert Rinder Copy Share Image
Björk’s wraparound swan frock . . . made her look like a refugee from the more dog-eared precincts of provincial ballet. — Jay Carr Copy Share Image
Wrestling isn't like ballet; it's not about practicing a routine. You need to focus. You need to concentrate. You need to know… — Mark Henry Copy Share Image
If our ballets be feeble, monotonous and dull, if they be devoid of ideas, meaning, expression and character, it is less the… — Jean-Georges Noverre Copy Share Image
I love ballet and I love dancing… It's a little boring for me to go to the gym because I'm used to… — Penelope Cruz 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
Ballet is quite unnatural on the joints. My body is just worn. My joints are 10 years older than me. — Darcey Bussell Copy Share Image
Yeah, I grew up doing ballet and jazz and tap, but I stopped at the age of 25, and I've never stepped… — Kaitlyn Bristowe Copy Share Image
And it is always Easter Sunday at the New York City Ballet. It is always coming back to life. Not even coming… — John Guare Copy Share Image
