Misty Copeland Quotes

I grew up studying ballet; I grew up honing my craft.

A dancer's life is all about repetition.

I very much like dance and dancers.

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

Growing up as a dancer, the stage is really where I love to be performance wise.

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.

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.

I love dance; that's a big part of my life - like, ballet specifically.

I do a lot of dance classes in my spare time. I'm a dancer at heart.

I can let go of a lot of stuff, but I focus on things I think I should, like dancing, because it takes 100 percent concentration on every step.

Dance has been very close to my heart. I am very passionate about it.

I didn't care how much work it would take, and I didn't see the time invested as a waste or like I was missing out on anything. Ballet became my ultimate passion.

I feel I can handle the architecture of dance as well as anybody.

I'm a dancer, so I love to dance.

Actors are born, good actors are trained. Dancers are born, good dancers are trained.

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.

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.

My background is in modern dance. I was a dancer and a choreographer before I was a director, and in dance, you can't cheat. Your leg goes up in the air, or it doesn't. So when I direct, I'm a big preparer.

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

I loved dance.

Dance must have a precision without fault.

I wanted to be a ballet dancer. I was bad - I'm not very coordinated. But I always wished I could have been a dancer.

Tap dancing is all about the feet; you put your head down and don't really engage with anything but the rhythm in your head.