Abbey Clancy
Abbey Clancy

I've always been a bit of a poser. I was chucked out of ballet lessons for looking in the mirror.

Adam Garcia
Adam Garcia

I started with ballet and then my cousin Sarah introduced me to her tap teachers.

Adena Friedman
Adena Friedman

When I was a kid, I'd always wanted to take karate, but my parents wouldn't let me because I did a lot of other things, including ballet.

Albert Finney
Albert Finney

There might've been wires, but I have this ability to make myself light. Well you know what, in ballet, when you kind of lift yourself here, it's all up in the head.

Alexander Dale Oen
Alexander Dale Oen

In swimming at my level it's about control of the small movements. A good ballet dancer floats across the stage, the best sprinters virtually abolish gravity. All motion occurs in the right direction.

Alicia Vikander
Alicia Vikander

I still love to see the ballet. And I love to boogie.

Alicia Vikander
Alicia Vikander

I push myself hard. I don't like pain, exactly, but as a ballerina, I lived in constant pain. At ballet school in Stockholm, I remember we had a locker where if someone had been to the doctor and gotten painkillers, we divided them among us. In a sense, we were all addicted.

Alicia Vikander
Alicia Vikander

Being in ballet school and being in leotards in front of a mirror I don't know how many hours a day was quite tough.

Alicia Vikander
Alicia Vikander

I'd quit ballet school, which I thought was going to be my path, but my gut instinct told me to do something different.

Allison Janney
Allison Janney

I've always been a figure skater and ballet dancer. I love physical comedy, and any chance that I get to do that... that is so me.