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.
The purpose of art is higher than art. What we are really interested in are masterpieces of humanity.
I'm more intrigued by things that I haven't really conceived of yet. I have the luxury of being able to think: "I've never done a ballet or an animated film myself. " There are certain things that I feel I'd love to. I just want to keep trying new things and seeing if I'm any good at them, and if I'm not, then at least learning that. I definitely think I'm more interested in what medium I can explore right now than any specific story.
Dancing and ballets would undoubtedly take on a new lease on life, if the customs established by a spirit of fear and jealousy did not in some way close the path of glory.
The abuse of the best things is always detrimental.
At the time I started in ballet they were dancing 'The Spirit of Champagne' on pointe, in Paris. I thought, 'I don't want to dance the spirit of champagne, I want to drink it!
I believe that I definitely developed into a refined and graceful woman due to ballet. It has shaped me in every way.
I've never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.
Mum, who had been a dancer with a small ballet company before she got married, was full of encouragement. She didn't say, "This is really good, you should do this", She just encouraged us to do whatever we liked.
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.
Badminton is like ballet dancing. It requires a lot of control, strength, mind play and measured movement
Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.
Although we do come from a silent profession, it is important for us to verbalize what we want to say. (As I tell my students): you could love someone all your life, but if you never say it how are they going to know? There comes a point when you have to say what you mean, which makes you scream louder when you dance.
You go to the ballet and you see girls dancing on their tiptoes. Why don't they just get taller girls?
Ballet is sort of a mystery to me. And I don't want to unravel that mystery.
I deliberately made an effort not to become an expert on the ballet.
I have always loved fashion because it's a great way to express your mood. And I'm definitely a shoe lover. The right pair of shoes can change the feel of an outfit, and even change how a woman feels about herself. A woman can wear confidence on her feet with a high stiletto, or slip into weekend comfort with a soft ballet flat.
Why be normal? What's the point?
Transplanting the ballet to the United States is like trying to raise a palm tree in Dakota.
I think that I'm so fortunate to have found classical ballet. It completely changed my life and it shaped the person that I am today, on and off the stage.