#ballet

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

#band #bit #community #girlfriends #i

I had never picked up a basketball before. I went through a grueling audition process. It was almost as if I was learning to walk. It would be like teaching somebody to dance ballet for a role. ↗

— Sanaa Lathan

#audition #ballet #basketball #before #dance

I wanted so badly to study ballet, but it was really all about wearing the tutu. ↗

— Elle Macpherson

#badly #ballet #i #really #study

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. ↗

— Dannii Minogue

#been #before #company #dancer #encouraged

I wanted to give people - which is fairly bizarre considering my whole life is contemporary dance really - I wanted to give people a really fulfilling sense that they had seen a white classical ballet - in a very pure form. ↗

— Graeme Murphy

#bizarre #classical #considering #contemporary #dance

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

#beach #child #did #fair #friends

Heaven help the American-born boy with a talent for ballet. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#ballet #boy #heaven #help #talent

Real men don't lift weights, they lift women. ↗

— Every male ballet dancer

#dance #funny #inspirational #funny

I came to New York to study ballet and English. ↗

— Penelope Cruz

#came #english #i #i came #new

When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire. ↗