As I got older, I started to do it more and more, and I wanted to learn all of the different types.… — Jillian Hervey Copy Share Image
Coming near him like a ballet dancer she took a leap towards him, and he, frightened by her vehemence, and fearing that… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
In 1998, Vanity Fair asked me to write a big piece for them on the 50th anniversary of the New York City… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
I think it's particularly stupid that filmmakers have traditionally said, 'Yeah, I like baseball, but the movie's not going to be about… — D. B. Sweeney Copy Share Image
I began to fear that the Graham work was not in lots of ways sufficient for me. I suppose it came about… — Merce Cunningham Copy Share Image
I have been curious about the mind and body for as long as I can remember. I was a gymnast, a ballet… — Rodney Yee Copy Share Image
When I was still a student, I came out of a performing arts high school, and the female students who were doing… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
It's a normal part of the culture of ballet to go to a nutritionist in your first few weeks. They write down… — Margaret Qualley Copy Share Image
My father, my uncles, my aunts, from my father's side and my mother's side... they were all professional musicians. My father was… — Lalo Schifrin Copy Share Image
I think all dancers are control freaks a bit. We just want to be in control of ourselves and our bodies. That's… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
The idea that ballet is a white art is absurd and shocking, and it’s gone on for too long. Nothing would make… — Benjamin Millepied Copy Share Image
I was always told by my ballet teachers that I was their actress because I was very performative in my roles. I… — Lily Gladstone Copy Share Image
The most essential thing in dance discipline is devotion, the steadfast and willing devotion to the labor that makes the classwork not… — Merce Cunningham Copy Share Image
I'd always been one of the best in my gymnastics school, so I transferred to trying to be the best dancer, without… — Sergei Polunin Copy Share Image
I did ballet as a child and started again seven years ago. I love that you hear this exquisite music, and for… — Rachael Stirling Copy Share Image
Me in high school, I was kind of a loner. I had a handful of friends. I'd eat my lunch in my… — Olesya Rulin Copy Share Image
The real beauty of it - key to my life was playing key chords on a banjo. For somebody else it may… — Vince Gill Copy Share Image
At the time I started in ballet they were dancing 'The Spirit of Champagne' on pointe, in Paris. I thought, 'I don't… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
As a little girl, I didn't dream of being a ballet dancer; I dreamt of being a movie star like Ginger Rogers… — Darcey Bussell Copy Share Image
I grew up as a dancer, and music and dance are so closely tied, that in ballet class you're listening to all… — Jillian Hervey Copy Share Image
When we go in the ring we know we're going to get hit. We know we're not the ballet people. But if… — Kostya Tszyu Copy Share Image
“Without any music, I started to dance. I wanted the music to be inside me, or at least for it to appear… — Lesa Howard Copy Share Image
I will say a lot of dancers do such beautiful things for their body and then they smoke a cigarette. I've never… — Elizabeth Berkley Copy Share Image
I started Ballet at a very young age and I was captivated immediately. It became my voice, means to overcome those final… — Amanda McKerrow Copy Share Image
If the simple positions of ballet are demonstrated straight on, they seem quite dull and lifeless, but when put on a diagonal,… — Lucinda Childs Copy Share Image
My dance skills are reliant on me being a bit pickled in a nightclub, if I try to do a dance move… — John Whaite Copy Share Image
I consider myself an actress first, a dancer second, and a singer third. Why? Because the dancer needs a reason to move-that's… — Liza Minnelli Copy Share Image
I have always been secretly obsessed with ballet - in awe of the discipline, the physicality, the poise and grace. Behind the… — Angela Scanlon Copy Share Image
When you are on stage you don't see faces. The lights are in your eyes and you see just this black void… — Suzanne Farrell Copy Share Image
It is not a question of skimming the surface of the art, it must be probed to its depths, for to seize… — Jean-Georges Noverre Copy Share Image
Dance exists first on this primordial level, not on an intellectual plane (even though it requires skill and intelligence). Its inmost substance… — Sondra Horton Fraleigh Copy Share Image
I work out as little as I can for as much gain as I can. Yoga and a little bit of ballet… — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
I can always invent movement, and sometimes it can be fitted into the right place, but that is not choreography. It is… — George Balanchine Copy Share Image
Ballet is completely unnatural to the body, just being turned out... it's not the way your body is supposed to function, so… — Neve Campbell Copy Share Image
Why are we inspired by another person's courage? Maybe because it gives us the sweet and genuine surprise of discovering some trace,… — Laurence Shames Copy Share Image
The world bursts at the seams with people ready to tell you you're not good enough. On occasion, some may be correct.… — Keith Olbermann Copy Share Image
When I was a child, I did swimming, running, ballet and even karate. But I got kicked out of karate class on… — Maria Sakkari Copy Share Image
I would love to work with Joanna Newsom on a ballet. I think that would be amazing. She has a gift for… — Justin Peck Copy Share Image
For Russians, to whom Pushkin's poem 'Eugene Onegin' is sacred text, the ballet's story and personae are as familiar and filled with… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
I didn't really know anything about Margot Fonteyn. I'd never really been a ballet child, so I had no idea what an… — Anne-Marie Duff Copy Share Image
