Ballet Quote by Misty Copeland

Dancers carry themselves in completely different ways to how we do in our everyday lives. They are very free with their bodies which I'm…

— Kristin Cavallari

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

The discipline that ballet requires is obsessive. And only the ones who dedicate their whole lives are able to make it. Your toenails fall…

— Penelope Cruz

When you train as a dancer, you understand you have to work exceptionally hard. I think dancers are the hardest - working people in…

— Laverne Cox

Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don't even look at one another. They are just a lot of isolated…

— Agnes de Mille

Ballet is something for which you need so much control and composure. And there's an element to acting that is the complete opposite. You…

— Sonoya Mizuno

I find that dancers are only well trained in ballet these days.

— Twyla Tharp

Dancers are trained to be disciplined to do what they are told, but I knew that time goes by, and I didn't want to…

— Sylvie Guillem

I'm not fond of the idea of doing ballet for ballet's sake, because dancers get exploited and they're not paid well. They do it…

— Sergei Polunin

Ballet dancers are a self-chosen elite. To survive and surmount years of disciplinary preparation and seasons of even more arduous performance requires rigid determination…

— Lincoln Kirstein

Most dancers have no awareness of how they look; half of them think they're fat. There is anorexia in the ballet world; there are…

— Benjamin Millepied

I think body-image issues are not just a dancer thing. I think we're much more in tune and aware because the body is our…

— Misty Copeland