Misty Copeland Quotes

Ballet has really helped me in every acting role. You have to be very disciplined, you have to be able to control your nerves and perform under pressure, and all those things you have to use in acting when you're on film or going for an audition.

I have always admired stylishly confident women who dress with great authority. This lifelong love of elegance began with the humble wardrobe of my late grandmother Mrs. Bennie Frances Davis.

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

I wish I could be elegant.

I am a classy dame.

Ballet opens up the chest and the arms and elongates the body, so you carry yourself straighter. That's so important for a model. But also every woman.

When I was still a student, I came out of a performing arts high school, and the female students who were doing traditional dance and ballet were so beautiful. They were beautiful, starting from their postures.

I think that I'm so fortunate to have found classical ballet. It completely changed my life and it shaped the person that I am today, on and off the stage.

Girls who are dancers tend to be much better models than girls who just got picked off the street. Dance is a discipline, just like martial arts. No matter what you do, you have this sort of confidence that no one can take away from you - every time you step somewhere, you're sure of where you're going.

Physical exercise makes you more graceful. After some gymnasitics you walk as if the whole street is yours.

I think any woman can be transformed by a beautiful dress and high heels.

The puma... the cat... is not just about power and speed and strength... but it is also a very elegant animal. That's what we've tried to reflect in our products.

The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener.

She is elegant rather than belle.

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

My mother danced; she loved the ballet.

Ballet teaches you how to hold yourself.

A woman can be sexy, charming, witty or shy with her shoes.

When I see grace in a woman, that's very sexy. You can tell by how someone moves or their rhythm.

A cat is never vulgar.

I like to think of myself as classy.

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

Ballet dancers really know how to enter a room.

Audrey Hepburn is a huge influence on my style. She's classy, confident, and simplistic. She's a tomboy and also super feminine.

I remember watching Audrey Hepburn dancing in movies, and I was inspired by how graceful she looked, though I understand it was no easy task.