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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

Tags: Always Very Been

I wanted to be a ballet teacher.

Jaclyn Smith

Tags: Teacher Wanted Ballet

Classical ballet will never die.

Ninette de Valois

Tags: Will Never Die

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

Tags: People Me Really

My mother danced; she loved the ballet.

Stefanie Powers

Tags: She Mother Loved

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

Tags: Just Had Been

'The Nutcracker' is the ballet that keeps on giving.

David H. Koch

Tags: Giving Keeps Ballet

With classical ballet you are literally injuring yourself.

Marina Abramovic

Tags: You Yourself Literally

I grew up studying dance, taking ballet lessons.

Jane Hamilton

Tags: Up Grew Taking

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

Tags: Like Love Some

Finding ballet was like finding this missing piece of myself.

Misty Copeland

Tags: Like Myself Piece

I toured the Middle Eastern countries with the ballet.

Leslie Caron

Tags: Middle Countries Ballet

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

Tags: Good Best About

The best physique I ever had was when I was ballet dancing.

Manu Bennett

Tags: Best Had Ever

The music industry is so easy compared to the ballet world.

Vanessa Carlton

Tags: Music World Easy

I came to New York to study ballet and English.

Penelope Cruz

Tags: New Came York

I've studied dance since I was very young, and I continue to study ballet.

Sarah Gadon

Tags: Very Young Since

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

Robert Gottlieb

Tags: You Always Read

You should have seen me at 14, with braces and glasses, gangly and doing ballet!

Margot Robbie

Tags: You Me Doing

I started with ballet and then my cousin Sarah introduced me to her tap teachers.

Adam Garcia

Tags: Me Then Her

There would never have been a British Ballet without Diaghilev. He had a wonderful influence.

Ninette de Valois

Tags: Had Been Would

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

Sarah Parish

Tags: School Her Watching

I am both proud and honored to be on the Board of Directors for the Texas Ballet Theater.

Janine Turner

Tags: Am I Am Both

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

Michael Ealy

Tags: Love Going See

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

Tags: You Who Your

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

Ashley Bell

Tags: Life Very Been

The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener.

George Balanchine

Tags: Thing Man Woman

There's nothing like the force and challenge of a new ballet to galvanize everyone involved in bringing it to life.

Karen Kain

Tags: Like Life New

As a kid, I had a lot of energy; but the ballet lessons made me calm - this pleased my mother.

Penelope Cruz

Tags: Me Had Lot

When I've done gymnastics, ballet or soccer - I was always trying to be the best. I'm really driven. Really driven.

Chloe Grace Moretz

Tags: Best Really Always

One of the few things in dance to match the Royal Ballet's curtain calls is the Royal Ballet's dancing.

Clive Barnes

Tags: Things Few Dance

I actually quit ballet when I was offered a job, an apprenticeship at North Carolina Dance Theater Company, run by John Pierre Bonnefoux and Patricia McBride, who are my idols. Everything sort of went perfectly. I was 16, and I was about to drop out of high school and become a professional ballet dancer.

Margaret Qualley

Tags: About Who Out

I copied my brother. He was a natural dancer. Graceful. People always asked did we study ballet. We never did.

Harold Nicholas

Tags: People Always Never

When I stopped doing ballet, I started training in the pool. I would do my barre exercises in the water, because that prevents injuries.

Summer Glau

Tags: Because Would Doing

I started with ballet, and once I started to really like it, I got into more - I did jazz and tap, and then kept going.

Maddie Ziegler

Tags: Like More Really

Sometimes during a ballet I'll look around and see all these rows of intent faces, concentrating on this beautiful thing up on the stage.

Robert Caro

Tags: Up Thing See

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

Tags: People Think Very

My world was a community ballet school, a marching band, my two sisters and my girlfriends. I played saxophone in the band and was a bit nerdy.

Jennifer Garner

Tags: World Two School

My mother never learned English, but in Russia, the greatest thing was to give a child to the arts. And so they gave me to the ballet.

Maria Karnilova

Tags: Me Never Thing

I was a very rotund child with short hair, and for some reason, I always had black ballet shoes. I was like the Wednesday Addams of ballet.

Felicity Jones

Tags: Like Always Very

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