Character Quote by Francesca Hayward

I absolutely love ballet. It gives me a chance to act like a princess in a fairy-tale world.

— Michaela DePrince

I like dramatic ballets, particularly if they're ballets in which I have a chance to go from one extreme of style or characterization to…

— Suzanne Farrell

I love ballet because you can see how beautiful the body is.

— Carine Roitfeld

What I love most about ballet is being able to express my emotions through dance, and to be able to bring others joy through…

— Michaela DePrince

I like new ballets because they're totally new. As you get older, new experiences are harder and harder to come by, so it's pretty…

— Robert Caro

I love ballet. Ballet is its own being. It has its own vocabulary. I feel as if I am in a different world when…

— Kiernan Shipka

What's always interested me the most about ballet is it's this great opportunity for many different artistic mediums to come together to create a…

— Justin Peck

I have always been secretly obsessed with ballet - in awe of the discipline, the physicality, the poise and grace. Behind the perfectly placed…

— Angela Scanlon

I think that I'm so fortunate to have found classical ballet. It completely changed my life and it shaped the person that I am…

— Misty Copeland

I liked the structure of ballet.

— Wendy Whelan

Ballet is my passion. I live it and breathe it.

— Michaela DePrince

I think that story ballets, as great as they might sell, they're a really dated and awkward medium to tell stories through. I think…

— Justin Peck