Misty Copeland Quotes

I always looked at the process and the career of being a ballerina as sacred. It's a true gift to have this talent and perform these masterworks; it's sublime.

My mother danced; she loved the ballet.

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.

Ballet really taught me so much about the power of movement.

I love ballet. Ballet is its own being. It has its own vocabulary. I feel as if I am in a different world when I am in the ballet studio.

When I was 8, I began to study ballet. In seventh grade, my mother took me into New York to study at the School of American Ballet. I loved ballet - its precision, the escape from uncertainty, and the music.

I've always felt like a different kind of ballerina.

I always liked dancing and you'd go to class and find you had an hour acting and an hour of ballet.

In the ballet studio, it was such an organized and disciplined environment, like I'd never had in my life. Seeing myself in the mirror, surrounded by the classical music, that's when I started to fall in love with dance.

Ballet is one form which I really want Indians to practice it.

Every great dancer has so much to offer.

I feel like dance, by its nature, goes so easily to grand and beautiful.

Ballet is such a disciplined craft and it has given me a good grounding.

I love ballet because you can see how beautiful the body is.

The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.

Dance must have a precision without fault.

The first movement ballerina should be a paradigm of strength and authority.

I used to dance when I was younger - ballet and modern dance.

Ballet is good, because it makes you stand up tall.

I'm able to move like no one else you've ever seen in front of a camera.

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 didn't know if I could act, but I knew I could be a great ballet dancer, and Balanchine put out the carpet for me.

I started with ballet, and once I started to really like it, I got into more - I did jazz and tap, and then kept going.

Dancers are a work of art - they are the canvas on which their work is painted.

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.