You're never more of an individual than when you're a happy team player. — Suzanne Farrell Copy Share Image
If you wanna dance, a windshield wiper'll do it-all you need is a beat. — Artie Shaw Copy Share Image
The state of least excitation of consciousness is the field of all possibilities. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
The once red leaf, the last of its clan, that dances as often as dance it can. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I danced with the Ballet Russe in Paris when I was 16 and did not need a companion. — Cyd Charisse Copy Share Image
I think that, like any kind of career, there are many different people involved in the ballet world. — Amanda Schull Copy Share Image
The particular ballet was not so important as the fact that I was physically healthy, and capable of getting out there and… — Suzanne Farrell Copy Share Image
Does the New York City Ballet affect other places? Yeah, it lets people know they should come to New York. — John Guare Copy Share Image
If I didn't have kids, I would be at the theater or the ballet every single night of my life. — Sarah Jessica Parker Copy Share Image
When you're really serious about ballet, it's a job - even if you're 15 years old. You're doing it six to eight… — Margaret Qualley Copy Share Image
Ballet is not technique, not a way of doing things, but a means of expression that comes perhaps more closely to the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You never advance without losing something en passant... you lose it because you're paying so much attention to the new thing. — Ninette de Valois Copy Share Image
My parents always had a Christmas tree in the house and I was put in ballet at a very young age. So… — Randy Rainbow Copy Share Image
The best seat in the house often depends on the ballet. For instance, much of the first act of 'The Nutcracker' is… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
The only family I knew was the Royal Ballet and I didn't feel I was part of it in a way. I… — Sergei Polunin Copy Share Image
I was called a bookish child. Mother sent me to a ballet teacher in Cincinnati when I was nine years old. I… — Vera-Ellen Copy Share Image
Ballet might be too formal of a title for the type of dance I do, but I love to dance. I love… — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
Maybe people have no idea how much work is behind a picture. It can seem very effortless but there is a lot… — Carine Roitfeld Copy Share Image
Ballet became this escape for me. I feel like I was on my own a lot. I was searching for stability, so… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
I went to 'The Nutcracker' every year with my grandma and aunt. Then, in my early teen years, I thought I wanted… — Jinkx Monsoon Copy Share Image
Not very many companies go through Hawaii on their way to anywhere. San Francisco Ballet was the only company I remember, and… — Joan Chen Copy Share Image
Ballet dancers are a self-chosen elite. To survive and surmount years of disciplinary preparation and seasons of even more arduous performance requires… — Lincoln Kirstein Copy Share Image
When you are dancing with your partner, for that two and a half minutes, you are in love with each other. You're… — Frankie Manning Copy Share Image
“Nijinsky in 'Le Spectre de la rose' was like nothing I'd seen before. He danced a fifteen-minute solo and it passed like… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
When you train as a dancer, you understand you have to work exceptionally hard. I think dancers are the hardest - working… — Laverne Cox Copy Share Image
Just as experience dictates to the ballet teacher the length of time necessary to train his students, so the horse, too, needs… — Alois Podhajsky Copy Share Image
Although most informed balletomanes would place artistry above technique, artistry without a strong technique is a flaccid, bloodless thing indeed, whereas technique… — John Simon Copy Share Image
If you don't feel challenged, it's because you're not doing enough. Ballet should never feel comfortable. Comfortable is lazy! If you're comfortable… — George Balanchine Copy Share Image
Some people even think that I'm still just not right for it [ballet]. And I think it's shocking because they hear those… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
![“Some people even think that I'm still just not right for it [ballet]. And I think it's shocking because they hear those words from critics saying I'm too bulky, I'm too busty. And then they meet me in person and they're like, you look like a ballerina. And I think it's just something maybe that I…” quote by Misty Copeland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dda/misty-copeland-2012_ballerina_some-people-even-think-that-i-m-still-ju_2708495.png)
