I started taking ballet lessons when I was three and a half and I still take dance classes. – Oksana Baiul
The eternal and uneasy relationship between ballet and modern dance endures, but radically altered in tone and intensity. – Robert Gottlieb
If a ballet dancer falls over, it’s knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts. – Ritchie Blackmore
Ballet Hispanico is far from Irish, and, though it has strong dancers, its Spanishness has always left me unconvinced. – Robert Gottlieb
As for the once-revolutionary ‘Agon,’ after more than half a century, its lessons and revelations have been so absorbed into the language of ballet that it now seems almost conventional. – Robert Gottlieb
You can’t drink on an eight hour flight, pass out, and then go onstage… well you can, but then you’re Spandau Ballet. – Robert Smith
As ye sow, so shall ye reap. When a ballet company spends a lot of money on gimmicky pieces, it’s stuck with them for a while – they have to earn their keep. – Robert Gottlieb
I realized early on, I’m more interested in Baryshnikov than some dancer who wants to do a rock show with ballet. – Savion Glover
The heart of the classical repertory is the Tchaikovsky-Petipa ‘Sleeping Beauty,’ and no ballet is harder to get right. – Robert Gottlieb
Twyla Tharp set her sights on ballet, and ballet, hungry for major talent, succumbed. – Robert Gottlieb
The particular ballet was not so important as the fact that I was physically healthy, and capable of getting out there and dancing as often as possible. – Suzanne Farrell
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
I really wanted to make it as a ballet dancer to make my mom proud. But it didn’t happen. – Tracy Anderson
I went to ballet school for nine years, and there was an agent for the whole school who happened to be there visiting one of the performances. She suggested an audition. – Sarah Sutton
I’ve danced since I was 5 and went to the School of American Ballet at Lincoln Center at 7. – Sarah Hay
Instead of watching cartoons when I was little, I had Russian ballet videos from, like, the 1950s and 1940s. – Sarah Hay
I wear short shorts. After 10 years of strenuous ballet, it’s the least my legs can do for me. – Solange Knowles
In the Thirties, when I was in New York, I did the first surrealistic ballet in a show of mine. – Vincente Minnelli