Deborah Bull Quotes

I've danced since I was 5 and went to the School of American Ballet at Lincoln Center at 7.

I was raised with a lot of classical music. I loved ballet. I was a bun head for 10 years.

I joined the Royal Ballet School when I was 13. Before then, I'd done ballet twice a week after school. The rest of my class had started aged 11, so I'd missed two years and was really far behind.

Apparently, I have good feet for ballet.

The moment the curtain rose on that first ballet, I knew something wonderful and new had come into my life. I can still see the first scene. The ballet was Divertimento No. 15.

The heart of the classical repertory is the Tchaikovsky-Petipa 'Sleeping Beauty,' and no ballet is harder to get right.

I wanted to be a ballet teacher.

I was serious about ballet for a long time, but my mom got me into tap and jazz and modern and hip-hop, and I was one of those over-lessoned children.

I think ballet is pretty open about what music is used, actually.

My first ballet class was on a basketball court. I'm in my gym clothes and my socks trying to do this thing called ballet. I didn't know anything about it.

I had some ballet training but didn't like it. It was like a game to me.

I ended up training only for four years before I was accepted into American Ballet Theater in New York City.

I'm from Texas and actually went to a regular high school, but every day after school I'd run to dance class and practice a lot and then go back the next day and stuff like that.

With classical ballet you are literally injuring yourself.

I find that dancers are only well trained in ballet these days.

The best seat in the house often depends on the ballet. For instance, much of the first act of 'The Nutcracker' is domestic and small scale, so it's great to sit up close. But the second act features elaborate scenery and choreography, which are better to observe from a distance.

I have lots of interests, but it's true that dancing is a very full-time job.

I've been dancing all my life and studied at Joffrey Ballet when I was 13 and singing all my life.

I think I tended toward the Russian training because my first teacher taught a version of Vaganova, and it was drilled into me that that was the best system, and also at the time there were a lot of great Russian stars.

I knew I wanted to be a ballet dancer, but what kind, I wasn't sure. My two dream companies had been New York City Ballet and American Ballet Theater.

After I finished 'Center Stage,' I went back to San Francisco, and I danced for seven seasons with the San Francisco Ballet.

I did ballet at the Menlo Park Academy of Dance from age 4 to 11, but then I switched to ballroom, and I've been doing that ever since.

I took ballet when I was eight, like a lot of other people.

There was a period of time when I studied ballet a lot when I was growing up.

When I was nine, I started doing ballet. That's when I knew that I was down to keep doing it.