Ballet Quote by Jessica Brown Findlay

My mother danced; she loved the ballet.

— Stefanie Powers

I remember vividly seeing 'Tarzan' and Fred Astaire, the Chaplin films, Fred Astaire musicals, MGM, because of my mother. She was just interested in…

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

Before founding Ballet Beautiful, I was a ballerina with the New York City Ballet.

— Mary Helen Bowers

Fred Astaire was my dream dancer.

— Debbie Reynolds

I copied my brother. He was a natural dancer. Graceful. People always asked did we study ballet. We never did.

— Harold Nicholas

I had a crush on Jean-Claude Van Damme growing up.

— Dorit Kemsley

My grandma was a ballerina.

— Kiersey Clemons

She trained as a ballet dancer yet she was an iron fist in a velvet glove. My younger brother Luca and I had a…

— Sean Hepburn Ferrer

In the ballet studio, it was such an organized and disciplined environment, like I'd never had in my life. Seeing myself in the mirror,…

— Misty Copeland

It became my first passion, the first thing I really fell in love with. I joined the Ralph Robinson Ballet company, and then went…

— Lawrence Bender

My mum took me to the ballet at three, and that was the only time I sat still, with jaw open, mesmerised. She brought…

— Emma Rigby

In ballet class, I felt like Ralph Wiggum.

— Josh Groban