Ballet Quote by Mary Helen Bowers

Ballet opens up the chest and the arms and elongates the body, so you carry yourself straighter. That's so important for a model. But…

— Mary Helen Bowers

Ballet teaches you how to hold yourself.

— Joseph Altuzarra

Ballet is hard enough when you go with it; when you have to force your body to do things, it is so much harder.

— Sylvie Guillem

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

Ballet targets smaller muscles that you don't often use - instead of working your quads, it works the inside and the back of your…

— Mary Helen Bowers

Ballet is completely unnatural to the body, just being turned out... it's not the way your body is supposed to function, so you actually…

— Neve Campbell

Ballet requires movements which are very unnatural. With every step, you do a circular movement of the hip. You turn out from the hip…

— Darcey Bussell

Ballet technique is arbitrary and very difficult. It never becomes easy...it becomes possible.

— Agnes De Mille

I've learned that there are many people out there who want to feel powerful and strong on their own terms, who want to tune…

— Mary Helen Bowers

Ballet is a finite art - your body won't let you do it forever, so I wanted to do it while I could.

— Amanda Schull

Ballet is an incredibly difficult, beautiful art form that takes a lot of training, a lot of time, and a lot of hard work.

— Sutton Foster

Ballet is the repetitive training of the body for the purpose of executing steps in traditional fashion. It is tied to and bound by…

— Shirley MacLaine