Appearance Quote by Monica Barbaro

For ballet dancers, style is about melding personal expression with physical form.

— 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

I have always been secretly obsessed with ballet - in awe of the discipline, the physicality, the poise and grace. Behind the perfectly placed…

— Angela Scanlon

Dance has such an intensity to it. You become, in a way, an intense person.

— Mia Wasikowska

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 Beautiful is a workout that transforms the body without overtaxing the system or joints.

— Mary Helen Bowers

I believe that I definitely developed into a refined and graceful woman due to ballet. It has shaped me in every way.

— Misty Copeland

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

— Karlie Kloss

What's so wonderful about ballet is that it's mind-driven physicality. It's almost a Greek ideal of body, mind, and form.

— Edward Villella

I went to the Performing Arts School and studied classical ballet. That attitude is something that's put into your head. You are never thin…

— Carmen Electra

I think ballet has influenced my personality a lot in the sense that I am very disciplined in all of my endeavours. I am…

— Yuan Yuan Tan

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