I had some ballet training but didn't like it. It was like…

When I did my first film, I didn't have formal training; I didn't work under any director. I really didn't know how to make…

— Mani Ratnam

Coming from having absolutely nothing to having a few grand in the bank, it was a big culture leap. I think that's why I…

— Craig Charles

Most aspects of my training didn’t agree with me. There wasn’t as much bossing around as I’d hoped for, and there was way too…

— Rachel Vincent

I guessed princesses-in-training didn’t wear pants.

— Kiera Cass

So I'm studying ballet every day and really training so people will see me as a ballet dancer, which no one's seen before.

— Sutton Foster

Ballet dancing is arduous, strenuous activity. Students are engaged in physical training that rivals the training Olympic athletes undergo. At the same time, they…

— George Balanchine

If the dance is right, there shouldn't be a single superfluous movement.

— Fred Astaire

Bob's work gleaned from hoofing, from vaudeville, from ballet.

— Ann Reinking

When I was 16, I moved to Torrance, California to train at a more advanced studio, and by 19, I joined the American Ballet…

— Misty Copeland

I'd rather be a guy that can build a house or fix a car than be able to walk like a ballet dancer.

— Travis Fimmel

Even though I am a professional, and I know what the steps are, I don't quite know how I'm going to do them, because…

— Suzanne Farrell

Ballet is pure and demands that you serve something larger than yourself, whether it be beauty or art, or a combination of both. It…

— Peter Martins

It is not a question of who dances but of who or what does not dance.

— Ruth St. Denis

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

One can be a great artist without being a great technician. There have been many famous ballet stars who did not have the ideal…

— Fernando Bujones