Ballet Quote by Misty Copeland

Being one of the few African American women to make it to this level in a classical ballet company, the level of American Ballet…

— Misty Copeland

Ballet is such a disciplined craft and it has given me a good grounding.

— Jennifer Ellison

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

— Guy Maddin

I've always thought of the process of creating ballets as being this kind of team effort. It's not like being a painter, where you…

— Justin Peck

Ballet really taught me so much about the power of movement.

— Karlie Kloss

Perseverance has always just been something that was in me. And it was a tool that came in very handy as a ballerina.

— Misty Copeland

Since ballet has such a solid classical framework, everything is supposed to be a very specific way, so you learn to look at things…

— Sonoya Mizuno

I'm not completely trained in any one area - I'm not a tap person or a ballet person. I don't have a big back-up…

— Matthew Bourne

I took ballet for two years in high school and then in college on and off, and I went back into class. I'm nowhere…

— Peter Vack

In ballet, it doesn't matter who you are. If you're good, it's such a rare thing, so unusual, that the talent will go wherever…

— Francesca Hayward

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 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