Quotes About Ballet

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

Ballet Beautiful is really good for me, and it doesn't hurt my back, and it's a way for me to kind of get my heart moving and tone every part of my body.

We moved from the suburbs to L.A. and I picked up break dancing when I was 10. I joined a dance crew in high school and I was battling. I also took ballet most of my life until high school.

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

A gracefully effortless floating, flowing and flying are the essentials of the ballet's image of man.

I think it's really important to mix cardio with toning, so I love boxing and then add in Pilates or ballet to keep me long and lean and avoid bulking up.

My intention is to make sure that the new work being created for the ballet world is relevant.

City Ballet remains a great company in perpetual artistic crisis.

Ballet can be hard on your joints, and when you're on a movie set doing take after take, it can become really repetitive.

My training and ballet background definitely gives me the competitive edge on the ice.

When I was young, I took classical ballet lessons, but I wasn't very good at it. It was really frustrating because I wanted to be good at it. When I stopped having lessons, I began to dance and improvise, and I felt more comfortable.

The first show I did was 'The Nutcracker' ballet. I was one of the kids who comes out in the beginning.

Ballet is an incredibly difficult, beautiful art form that takes a lot of training, a lot of time, and a lot of hard work.

A ballet of nimble-footed waitresses moved among the tables

A simple ballet wrap sweater heats the back muscles but is easy to put on or take off without disturbing a dancer's makeup or hair before a performance or during a workout.

I toured the Middle Eastern countries with the ballet.

I came from the musical stage. My first show was '110 In The Shade.' I started as a ballet dancer and then sort of gravitated toward musical theater, so any time I got asked to sing or dance, it was a joy for me.

My Mom is a ballet director, so I had this idea in me that classical training is the best foundation for anything you do, so I wanted to get a classical background and voice.

I'm very flower-like. I love classical music. I go to ballet and I cry. There's nothing so beautiful.

New York. It's home to opera, Broadway, museums, the ballet and orchestra - everything that I love. The most real people in the world live there.

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

I think it was important that I learned to love to dance eventually for its own sake, as opposed to wanting to be a ballerina.

I think ballet has a bad reputation of being stuffy and depleted.

I didn't care too much for ballet, because you had to be more disciplined, and you sort of looked like everyone else. It required a certain kind of conformity that I didn't feel like I wanted to do.