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I've never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer. — Bebe Neuwirth

I've always been excited by the strangeness of ballet, but I can't bear it when people just come forward and do a turn in the air for no reason. — Matthew Bourne

You're a fridge with wings. We're freaking ballet dancers! -Fang — James Patterson

I think that ballet is very good for the body. It's very similar to yoga, because you have to hold a position. — Carine Roitfeld

you...are...a...frige...with...wings...we...are...freaking...ballet...dancers! — James Patterson

Dancing is a tough career, but I'm glad I spent it at the Royal Ballet. — Deborah Bull

I'm a classical ballet dancer, and at the end of the day I want to be with American Ballet Theater, performing classical ballets. — Misty Copeland

It [ballet] projects a fragile kind of strength and a certain inflexible precision. — Ayn Rand

It is vain for Mr. McCabe to say that a ballet is a part of him. He should be part of a ballet, or else he is only part of a man. — G.K. Chesterton

I was a ballet dancer growing up and that's what I was convinced I would be. — Candice Swanepoel

In fact, ballet companies did not exist in the Midwest when I was a child. — Suzanne Farrell

Ballet is important and significant - yes. But first of all, it is a pleasure. — George Balanchine

In the Thirties, when I was in New York, I did the first surrealistic ballet in a show of mine. — Vincente Minnelli

I was a ballet dancer and that kind of bled into musical theater. I was constantly in rehearsal for one thing or another. — Jennifer Garner

I thought 'Out of Africa' would be a beautiful ballet. — Amy Adams

I've been very physical my whole life. I've done a lot of ballet, fencing and karate, and everything. — Ashley Bell

The cat crossed the street daintily, pointing his feet like a ballet dancer, lifting them high as if his feet were too good for the pavement. — Vera Caspary

I was kind of a loser at ballet school. It's all rich kids, and I was not a wealthy kid. I didn't have the Chanel butterfly clip everyone else did. — Sarah Hay

I love going to see the theatre whether it's a Broadway play or a Russian ballet company. — Michael Ealy

You're never more of an individual than when you're a happy team player. — Suzanne Farrell

You know, ballet might be too formal of a title for the type of dance I do, but I love to dance. — Jeff Bridges

Coco Chanel was always doing things with ballet, so it is a tradition clashing fashion and ballet. — Carine Roitfeld

I can't think of a better way to start my day."
"Get used to it," he murmured, right before he kissed her. — Samantha Chase

I trained in every form of dance - started as a tap dancer when I was a kid, then contemporary, ballet, ballroom, everything. Russian, Swedish. — Nigel Lythgoe

I had some ballet training but didn't like it. It was like a game to me. — Fred Astaire

I've always loved dancing. As soon as there is good music, I've got to get up and dance. I was passionate about ballet as a little girl. — Cherie Lunghi

In the world of classical ballet there are only a handful of story ballets, so getting a new one is cause for excitement. — Karen Kain

I can see why they named that ballet the Nutcracker. It's gotta hurt having 'em crushed in something that tight. — Mark A. Cooper

When I was a little kid, I took tap and ballet. I've always loved to dance. I'm a rhythm machine. — Tommy Lee

I'm steel-toed boots in a ballet-slipper world. — Richard Kadrey

Ballet is not technique but a way of expression that comes more closely to the inner language of man than any other. — George Sava

And what would be great numbers in a Broadway show are now on stage of the New York City Ballet. — John Guare

I really wanted to make it as a ballet dancer to make my mom proud. But it didn't happen. — Tracy Anderson

Ballet has a very small audience, unfortunately. — Sascha Radetsky

Ballet is a dance executed by the human soul. — Alexander Pushkin

I love ballet. Ballet is its own being. It has its own vocabulary. I feel as if I am in a different world when I am in the ballet studio. — Kiernan Shipka

As an adult, I took ballet classes three times a week, and I believed it gave me better posture, a stronger body, and made me more graceful. — Ann Hood

To many a youth and many a maid, dancing in the chequer'd shade. — John Milton

We usually spend one hour per week on ballet but Marta Karolyi has us do a lot of compulsory floor in the morning practice. — Kristie Phillips

So I'm studying ballet every day and really training so people will see me as a ballet dancer, which no one's seen before. — Sutton Foster

My mother and my father always had me in ballet and dance, and I sang in a girl's group. — Jessica White

When you can't follow a ballet's action, you can always read the program notes. — Robert Gottlieb

I had to do a tango with Raft and I learned to dance in ballet shoes with my knees bent. — Marie Windsor

I had been a ballet dancer and never could make a living, and just being so excited that I got to, all of a sudden, live as an actor. — Lea Thompson

A toe shoe is as eccentric as the ballerina who wears it: their marriage is a commitment. — Toni Bentley

I wasn't a competitor. I would play outside with my friends, but not really anything like ballet or soccer. I tried to play soccer, and it went badly. — Sibel Kekilli

The classical ballet world is so exclusive and small, and a lot of people don't know about it. — Misty Copeland

The ballet needs to tell its own story in such a way it can be received without having to be translated into language. — Twyla Tharp

I learned how to communicate and articulate myself from ballet. It's just insane to me, when they don't think of that as a part of our education. — Misty Copeland

I was very much a tomboy. I just couldn't do the pink ballet tutus. — Ashley Wagner

NO greater love has a husband for his wife than to watch a 2hr documentary on an elite ballet competition. — Mark Venturini

At least in my performances, the audience has become so diverse in a way that I don't think ballet has ever experienced. — Misty Copeland

Whenever I have had a sudden urge to quit dancing, I just remember that moment I had when I was young and remember that dancing is what I want to do. — Anna Pavlova

Badminton is like ballet dancing. It requires a lot of control, strength, mind play and measured movement — Aamir Khan

A genius is a talented person who does his homework. — Thomas A. Edison

I don't feel like my life is that of a superstar! Every day I wake up, I take the train, I go to my ballet class. My everyday life is pretty normal. — Misty Copeland

Up until I was about 12, I was a ballet dancer and a basketball player. — Katherine McNamara

I don't think much of a dance step where the girl looks like she was being carried out of a burning building. — Frank Hubbard

Ballet is a riddle of means and ends. — Gelsey Kirkland

When life takes me on a new journey, I simply remember the smile my first ballet recital put on my face and I move forward. — Andrea Thompson

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

A brand-new pair of toe shoes presents itself to us as an enemy with a will of its own that must be tamed. — Toni Bentley

Our animals don't do drugs. Instead, we move them almost daily in a tightly choreographed ballet from pasture spot to pasture spot. — Joel Salatin

I've won my last four matches by knockout. Out of 30 fights, I've won more than 20 by knockout. I think that a ballet dancer wouldn't win by knockout. — Sergio Martinez

Hopefully, I'll be a part of ABT, in some way, forever. I think I'll always be a part of ballet and try to push diversity, for as long as I live. — Misty Copeland

Ballet-girls have a bad reputation, which is in most cases well deserved. — Henry Mayhew

Dancing is creating a sculpture that is visible only for a moment. — Erol Ozan

Cincinnatians support a symphony, an opera, a ballet, museums, many galleries and theater groups. — Bill Dedman

Ballet is sort of a mystery to me. And I don't want to unravel that mystery. — Robert Caro

A fine picture is but the image of nature; a finished ballet is nature herself. — Jean-Georges Noverre

There's an opera out on the turnpike, there's a ballet being fought out in the alley. — Bruce Springsteen

Without dancing you can never attain a perfectly graceful carriage, which is of the highest importance in life. — Benjamin Disraeli

I'm never going to get married. I'm going to be a ballet-dancer. But don't tell anybody. — Leo Tolstoy

I want to bring awareness to the lack of diversity in ballet, and feel like that's a large part of my purpose. — Misty Copeland

Baseball is a ballet without music. Drama without words. — Ernie Harwell

With both acting and ballet, often you can't just choose when you do it, whereas a painter can go at his own pace. — Mia Wasikowska

A ballet of nimble-footed waitresses moved among the tables — Beth Hoffman

One day a man came into the bar and ordered a pint and a pousse-cafe, adding "for our lass" in case I thought he was a ballet dancer or something. — Harry Pearson

Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays. — George Balanchine

A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet. I'm beginning to think that walls are very unhealthy things. — Twyla Tharp

I was in a competing company and have been dancing since I was four - ballet, tap, jazz, hip hop - so it's a huge part of my life and my music. — Tinashe

In a ballet company, you're trying to create unison and uniform when you're in a cour de ballet. — Misty Copeland

I wanted to be a ballet dancer. I was bad - I'm not very coordinated. But I always wished I could have been a dancer. — Gia Coppola

Ballet, too, was made more tolerable when observed from a barstool. — Tim Sultan

I started taking ballet lessons when I was three and a half and I still take dance classes. — Oksana Baiul

The artistic path is a fearless occupation. — Alonzo King

Ballet is merely a new rationalization of society's instinctive movement towards self-destruction. A dance of death for the Gadarene swine. — Eric Ambler

I have a ballet barre in my gym. I turn the music up so loud that the walls are pulsating, and I go for it for an hour. — Catherine Zeta-Jones

When I was a child, I went to stage school three times a week in the evenings - singing, ballet, tap, modern and acting, and I loved it. — Michelle Dockery

My earliest memory is of sitting at Mum's dance school, watching her teach a ballet class. — Sarah Parish

Watching you try to be a smooth manipulator is like watching a moose do ballet. What did you do, read Machiavelli for Dummies? Or — Elliott James

Ballet is more than a profession - it is a way of life. — Margot Fonteyn

I realize how much ballet gave me, and because of ballet, I'm known as a graceful gymnast. — Svetlana Boginskaya

You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up. — Patrick Swayze

It [ballet] is a perfect medium for the expression of spiritual love. — Ayn Rand

I was a protege; by the age of 10, I was studying with ballet choreographer Anthony Tudor in a class of adults. — Judith Jamison

When I'm doing well, it's like I'm in a nice little ballet. Everything is going slow all around me. It's very peaceful. — Barry Zito

It takes a lot of money to be a part of the ballet world. Both the training and the supplies are expensive, the shoes, the leotards and the tights. — Misty Copeland

He was a punk, she did ballet. What more can I say. — Avril Lavigne

At 7, I was at the barre and dancing at folk festivals. Then I was a student with the ballet school of the Metropolitan Opera. — Maria Karnilova