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If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts. -- Ritchie Blackmore
The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for this school of affected grace and toe walking. -- Isadora Duncan
My background is somewhat unusual, as I trained to be a ballet dancer. I worked in the theatre for eight or nine years as a contemporary dancer. But as an actor one does read Shakespeare and does try to learn the classics. -- William Kempe
I've got no plans to be a ballet dancer at the moment. -- Neil Patrick Harris
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 was a ballet dancer and that kind of bled into musical theater. I was constantly in rehearsal for one thing or another. -- Jennifer Garner
When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire. -- Angelina Jolie
I think classical ballet dancers dance on pointe because they're simultaneously touching the earth and reaching up to the skies -- Paulo Coelho
Anyone who has a child today should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he'll escape. -- W. H. Auden
I used to get so comfortable running the hurdles, I was just like a ballet dancer going out there and going through the routines. -- Rod Milburn
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'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
It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style. -- Quentin Crisp
When she goes about her kitchen duties, chopping, carving, mixing, whisking, she moves with the grace and precision of a ballet dancer, her fingers plying the food with the dexterity of a croupier. -- Craig Claiborne
Swan Lake is the most difficult thing to portray for a female ballet dancer; it really requires such specific qualities of articulation, agility, strength, and the arm work is something that takes a lot of training. -- Benjamin Millepied
Coming near him like a ballet dancer she took a leap towards him, and he, frightened by her vehemence, and fearing that she would crash against him, instinctively became absolutely rigid, and she felt herself embracing a statue. -- Anais Nin
I dreamt of becoming a ballet dancer. I studied with the Royal Academy of London for 11 years, and that did not pan out, but my love for being on stage was born there. And then, I actually went to drama school in Paris, France. That's where it first started. -- Diane Kruger
I was always nervous about coming back to Australia which was a complete hangover of the days when I left when ballet was not accepted, when I was not accepted, when I was considered a freak for wanting to be a ballet dancer. And, to be 100% honest, I rather dreaded coming back... -- Robert Helpmann
I have been curious about the mind and body for as long as I can remember. I was a gymnast, a ballet dancer, and a philosophy and physical therapy major. Following the thread of curiosity about mind and body, I took my first yoga class in 1980 and knew from the start that it would be a lifelong passion. -- Rodney Yee
I was a ballet dancer. I did other kinds of dance but ballet was my great love. But then it became clear, when I was 12, that my body wasn't going to be right. That's always a heartbreaking moment because there's nothing you can do about that. Your body is just not right. You don't have enough turnout. You're not built properly. -- Greta Gerwig
Ballet dancers are a self-chosen elite. To survive and surmount years of disciplinary preparation and seasons of even more arduous performance requires rigid determination and almost mindless self-abnegation. One other factor is difficult to predetermine: without a certain admixture of hysteria - sometimes masking as self-obsession, sometimes even counterfeiting incipient madness - performers, at once acrobats, artists, and animals, make little public impression. -- Lincoln Kirstein
In order to dance professionally, you have to start at a young age. No matter what, your muscle structure and your bones have to be groomed from a very young age. Nobody wakes up at 17 and decides to become a ballet dancer. I'm saying that and someone's going to be born tomorrow who decides to do that and I'm going to have my foot in my mouth. -- Joan Chen
I wanted to be a male ballet dancer. -- Scott Thompson
I was a ballet dancer growing up and that's what I was convinced I would be. -- Candice Swanepoel
I really wanted to make it as a ballet dancer to make my mom proud. But it didn't happen. -- Tracy Anderson
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
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
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
I trained as a ballet dancer - well, I started when I was two and a half, and was serious about it from when I was eight until I was 18. -- Jessica Brown Findlay
If I'm at a party, I can put on some crazy dance moves. However, it's not synchronized, beautiful or choreographed like a ballet dancer. I'd love to be graceful like that. -- Sierra McCormick
In swimming at my level it's about control of the small movements. A good ballet dancer floats across the stage, the best sprinters virtually abolish gravity. All motion occurs in the right direction. -- Alexander Dale Oen
Swan Lake' is the most difficult thing to portray for a female ballet dancer; it really requires such specific qualities of articulation, agility, strength, and the arm work is something that takes a lot of training. -- Benjamin Millepied
I was embarrassed that I even wanted to become an actress because coming from L.A., with two older sisters in the business and a mom who had been a ballet dancer, it was such a cliche. -- Elizabeth Olsen
I grew up with classical music when I was a ballet dancer. Now when I have to prepare an emotional scene, to cry or whatever, I listen to sonatas. Vivaldi and stuff. It's just beautiful to me. -- Diane Kruger
It'd be very difficult to cast me as a ballet dancer. Everybody is, in some sense, controlled by their size and their gender. I'm not going to be allowed to play the part that Denzel Washington plays. -- Brian Dennehy
I trained as a ballet dancer and fell in love with Rudolf Nureyev; I thought him the most beautiful creature. My mum had to break it to me that not only was he gay, but he was dead. -- Jessica Brown Findlay
In order to dance professionally, you have to start at a young age. No matter what, your muscle structure and your bones have to be groomed from a very young age. Nobody wakes up at 17 and decides to become a ballet dancer. -- Amanda Schull
The discipline that ballet requires is obsessive. And only the ones who dedicate their whole lives are able to make it. Your toenails fall off and you peel them away and then you're asked to dance again and keep smiling. I wanted to become a professional ballet dancer. -- Penelope Cruz
Melissa Barak, an ex-City Ballet dancer and sometime choreographer, has put together an unspeakably dopey and incompetent mess called 'Call Me Ben,' combining ultra-generic dance, terrible dialogue and disastrous storytelling, about the founding of Las Vegas by the gangster Bugsy Siegel, who insists, violently, on being addressed as 'Ben.' -- Robert Gottlieb
The domain of the ballet dancer is not earth but air. -- Lincoln Kirstein
I did community theater in Georgia and called myself a ballet dancer. -- Laura Slade Wiggins
My personal trainer is an ex-dancer so we do a lot of ballet and jazz. -- Rachel Stevens
I think most dancers would agree that the art of ballet chooses the dancer, not the other way around. -- Kevin McKenzie
I really wanted to make it as a ballet dancer to make my mom proud. But it didnt happen. -- Tracy Anderson
In France, ballet is on TV ... It's on the eight-o'clock news. It's a cool thing to be a dancer. -- Benjamin Millepied
I copied my brother. He was a natural dancer. Graceful. People always asked did we study ballet. We never did. -- Harold Nicholas
When I was very young I wanted to be an opera singer, a ballet dancer... The people I loved were a little different. -- FKA twigs
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
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 went away when I was 9 to a ballet school. I thought I wanted to be a dancer, but eight years of ballet cured me of that. -- Juliet Mills
Like a ballet dancer, she keeps me on my toes. This dance we're doing, it keeps me so fit I know she's a perfect fit for me. -- Jarod Kintz
I grew up dancing, and my ballet teacher was literally a drill sergeant; she was so strict and so scary. And it made me a better dancer. -- Kate Hudson
Well, I took ballet for many, many years, so my whole childhood really revolved around dance class. I grew up around dance; my mother was a dancer. -- Amy Sherman-Palladino
Somewhere in there the grace of a ballet dancer joins with the strength of an SAS squaddie, the dignity of an ancient kind, the nerve of a bomb disposal officer... -- Eamon Dunphy
Think of a ballet dancer at the barre. Plie, eleve, battement tendu. She is practicing, because she knows that there is no difference between practice and art. The practice is the art. -- Dani Shapiro
I think people are people and, if their feelings are truthful, they can connect. It doesn't matter if you're an aging, 50-something wrestler at the end of his career, or an ambitious, 20-something ballet dancer. -- Darren Aronofsky

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