Misty Copeland Quotes

My first vocation was dance.

My mum took me to the ballet at three, and that was the only time I sat still, with jaw open, mesmerised. She brought me home, and I wouldn't stop dancing.

I still study dance, and it's definitely something I want to incorporate in the future. It's always been my first love.

I really developed an early love for ballet. Like most dancers, I am still 'first' a dancer. I'm very proud of it. Once you are a dancer, the physicality never leaves you, nor does the strength. Hopefully, it keeps you like an athlete.

My first love is acting, but dancing comes naturally to me.

I grew up studying dance, taking ballet lessons.

Dance has always been my number one. I started when I was seven years old and I've had the opportunity to work with some really amazing artists.

I dug up my dad's old Fred Astaire tapes, and now I find him super-inspiring. He's, like, one of the best dancers.

In my heart, my first desire was to be a dancer. I always wanted to dance and I danced from the time I was 7 till I was well into my 30s.

Dance has been a big passion for me.

Adam Shankman has got such love and passion for dance.

I had to work out that it was something that could move, without having everybody in spray painted leotards.

I watched 'Fame,' and I just love the choreography. It just gives me a place to be in another zone.

I have a penchant for playing God's clowns. Actually, I played Nijinsky once, and he used to call himself God's clown.

I always wanted to act and sing, but my first love was ballet.

I was a dancer first, which made me realize how much I loved performing.

Dance is definitely what I love doing much more than anything else.

The ballet makes us look at those bodies, it makes us listen to that music, it makes us wonder at the geometry, of the way they come together. The way that extraordinary space is controlled and given such emotional force.

I danced for 15 years of my life. Which was my love and my passion.

I've always loved dancing. As soon as there is good music, I've got to get up and dance. I was passionate about ballet as a little girl.

I started dancing ballet when I was very young, so my background really is dance. But I remember loving the feeling of being on a stage and having a love for performing from a young age.

I competitively ice skate, and I also dance, and I do a lot of theater, which also involves a lot, a lot of physicality, because you have to do a lot of fast changes.

I frequently go to the ballet, but I don't miss it in the sense that I wish I were still dancing.

I was always the kid down the street who got the other kids to put on a show. But it was only when I was 19, and discovered ballet and contemporary dance, that I got interested in the fact that you could have a whole evening of dance - rather than just waiting for the dancers in a musical.

Growing up, I was a dancer. I wanted to be a choreographer.