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.
Will Kemp
Ballet`s image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and sulfurous hatreds where anything is likely, and dancers know it.
Shana Alexander
[On explaining why she never tapped on-screen] I was pulled up as a ballet dancer and I wasn`t used to pounding the floor with bent knees.
Cyd Charisse
I did (training in) tennis, ballet, swing dancing, piano, art class and etiquette. I also did French dialect, but then it was mixing me up with my Southern dialect, so we stuck to Southern!
Rachel McAdams
I nearly killed myself in rehearsals, but the outcome is classy, I hope. It`s a lot different from any other videos I`ve done before. I really wanted to do some ballet in my next video and luckily I`ve been able to. I normally have three or four hours to ...
Kylie Minogue
("What was the most diificult time of her life?"): Probably when I was at the National Ballet School of Canada, from the ages of nine to fourteen. It`s the best dance school in the world, but an extremely competitive one, and there was a lot of pressure f...
Neve Campbell
I`m so fair that I didn`t go in the sun as a child. When all my friends were on the beach, I was going to ballet. The teachers there didn`t like you going in the sun, so I never did.
Miranda Otto
I just wanted to try a different type of performance - ballet is more an image of perfection, and film can show a grittier side. Sometimes it`s the more realistic topic of real life that really intrigues me.
Mia Wasikowska
Last year was certainly a year of record for me. Not long after being offered a place in San Francisco Ballet, which had to be one of the most exciting moments in my life, I was offered a leading role in a movie. It was amazing. In my wildest dreams, I ne...
Amanda Schull
Ballet is very hard. It takes a lot of practice to get to a certain standard. You have to know a lot about the steps because when you take examinations they`ll ask you all about it.
Jamie Bell
It`s fortunate that I don`t have to live with being Ballet Boy any more. After this I`ll be called the nipple-circling dress-wearer or Rat Boy. - On his character Hallem Foe.
Jamie Bell
[on why he continued pursuing ballet despite the mockery] - "The other boys called me `poof`, `ballerina boy`, "Get on your tutu, Jamie." It gave me more determination to prove it wasn`t just for girls. It was for boys as well."
Jamie Bell
[on tap dancer Eleanor Powell] Eleanor was an out-and-out dancer. She danced like a man. She slammed the floor and did it great and that`s fine and suddenly she`s on her toes in the ballet sequence -- it did look kinda funny.
Fred Astaire
I`ve been dancing my entire life. Jazz, hip hop, ballet. And then there`s tap dancing. I love to tap. My ultimate dream is to do a musical like `Singin` in the Rain.`
Emily van Camp
Classical ballet is physically challenging. You don`t have any control over your career. You have to take instruction. You can`t talk back. You can`t have an opinion. You have to have great discipline and endurance. You have to tolerate pain. If you don`t...
Neve Campbell
(About her considering ballet as a profession): I was never good enough to be a soloist. Quatre ballet was about all I could handle. I didn`t have those beautifully constructed feet (high arches, high insteps). My extension on my left leg was pretty good,...
Shirley MacLaine
(About her considering ballet as a profession): I was never good enough to be a soloist. Quatre ballet was about all I could handle. I didn`t have those beautifully constructed feet (high arches, high insteps). My extension on my left leg was pretty good,...
Shirley MacLaine
I was mad about ballet, but I grew too tall, and when I eventually realized I`d never become the second Margot Fonteyn, I auditioned for a play instead and got the part.
Deborah Kerr
To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there`s no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other
Jack Handy
