Ballet Training Quotes

#1. I had some ballet training but didn't like it. It was like a game to me.

Fred Astaire

#2. It's going to take a while before we see a real shift in the students and the dancers that are going into professional companies because it takes so many years of training, but I do think that there's a new crop of dancers, of minority dancers that are entering into the ballet world.

Misty Copeland

#3. I'd really like to get to do some fighting, some martial arts training, because I think that would be really fun I do gymnastics and ballet, and I'm very, very into the physically acrobatic end of sport.

Anna Paquin

#4. Ballet found me, I guess you could say. I was discovered by a teacher in middle school. I always danced my whole life. I never had any training, never was exposed to seeing dance, but I always had something inside of me. I would love to choreograph and dance around.

Misty Copeland

#5. 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

#6. Training for the ballet, Potter?

J.K. Rowling

#7. I ended up training only for four years before I was accepted into American Ballet Theater in New York City.

Misty Copeland

#8. I skate about 15 to 20 hours a week and also incorporate a lot of off-ice training. I take ballet and Pilates classes and lift weights with my physical therapist when I'm not on the ice.

Sasha Cohen

#9. Ballet found me. I was discovered by a teacher in middle school. I always danced, my whole life. I never had any training, never was exposed to seeing dance, but I always had something inside of me.

Misty Copeland

#10. You increase muscle bulk by training against resistance. For example, weights. And in ballet, this isn't the case.

Deborah Bull

#11. At the beginning, ballet accounted for at least two hours out of six hours of my daily training session. Later I devoted less time to ballet, but every workout of mine included training in choreography.

Natalia Yurchenko

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

Bebe Neuwirth

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

Sutton Foster

#14. Training for the ballet, Potter? yelled Malfoy.

J.K. Rowling

#15. I did grow up in France, and even though I didn't go to the school or dance with the Paris Opera Ballet, I absorbed similar ideas in my training. I understand the scale of a big company. I danced for one for almost 20 years.

Benjamin Millepied

#16. Applause lavished at a whim and without discernment, often proves the ruin of young people training for a stage career.

Jean-Georges Noverre

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. '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

#20. In terms of withstanding incredible amounts of pain - both physical and emotional - I don't think there's any better training than ballet.

Julia Jones

#21. 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.

Shuler Hensley

#22. My life isn't theories and formulae. It's part instinct, part common sense. Logic is as good a word as any, and I've absorbed what logic I have from everything and everyone ... from my mother, from training as a ballet dancer, from Vogue magazine, from the laws of life and health and nature.

Audrey Hepburn