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.

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.

Amanda Schull
Amanda Schull

In order to dance professionally, you have to start at a young age. No matter what, your muscle structure and your bones have to be groomed from a very young age. Nobody wakes up at 17 and decides to become a ballet dancer.

Bebe Neuwirth
Bebe Neuwirth

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

Benjamin Millepied
Benjamin Millepied

'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.

Brian Dennehy
Brian Dennehy

It'd be very difficult to cast me as a ballet dancer. Everybody is, in some sense, controlled by their size and their gender. I'm not going to be allowed to play the part that Denzel Washington plays.

Candice Swanepoel
Candice Swanepoel

I was a ballet dancer growing up and that's what I was convinced I would be.

Carmen Dell'Orefice
Carmen Dell'Orefice

My dream was to become a ballet dancer, but after a year in bed with rheumatic fever at 13, I had grown too tall, and had no muscle tone left. I tried a ballet class and couldn't even do a plie without falling over. It was my first death.

Chloe Benjamin
Chloe Benjamin

I grew up in San Francisco, and I trained as a ballet dancer until college.

Darcey Bussell
Darcey Bussell

As a little girl, I didn't dream of being a ballet dancer; I dreamt of being a movie star like Ginger Rogers and dancing with Fred Astaire. I used to watch the Sunday double-bills on TV and Iong to be part of what seemed a perfect Disneyland world. Astaire was a genius.