Ballet Quote by Misty Copeland

My first ballet class was on a basketball court. I'm in my gym clothes and my socks trying to do this thing called ballet.

— Misty Copeland

I'd always been one of the best in my gymnastics school, so I transferred to trying to be the best dancer, without knowing anything…

— Sergei Polunin

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

I was sent to ballet classes when I was a little girl. I wasn't very good, but it's that thing where little girls always…

— Cat Deeley

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

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

— Agnes De Mille

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

I did ballet when I was a kid.

— Camille Rowe

Making the ballet really taught me how to get things moving. Ballet dancers don't stand still.

— Guy Maddin

Ballet teaches you how to hold yourself.

— Joseph Altuzarra

I went to Westside School of Ballet in L.A. and I was climbing through the ranks. Then I got to pointe shoes and I…

— Helene Yorke

I'm trying to create ballets that I would enjoy seeing.

— Justin Peck