Fred Astaire Quotes

Ballet is the fairies' baseball.

I took tap classes growing up.

I started taking ballet lessons when I was three and a half and I still take dance classes.

I take ballet class as often as possible - up to 5 times a week - and try to go to the gym on the days that I don't take class. I also do a floor barre/Pilates mat class almost everyday.

I do take class because I still dance, and yes, I do slip into class with the Royal Ballet from time to time.

I do after-school ballet and also hip-hop and jazz.

I love ballet, and it's a little boring for me to go to the gym because I'm used to the dancing discipline - it's really hard but much more fun.

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.

Since I was a child I've loved going to the opera, theatre and ballet.

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

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

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

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

Training for the ballet, Potter?" yelled Malfoy.

I did jazz dance for a few years.

Everything I was being shown was ABT, so I grew up watching these videos of [Mikhail] Baryshnikov, Gelsey [Kirkland] and Paloma [Herrera]. Paloma and Angel [Corella] were the first people I ever saw dance live.

I grew up going to see my sister dance, both at the ballet and later as a modern dancer, and have always been a big fan of the ballet. So I have had a long relationship with dance.

My mom tried to get me on ballet. 'Walter Payton did it! Walter Payton did it!' I'm just not messing with ballet.

I grew up studying dance, taking ballet lessons.

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.

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

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

'Swan Lake' can be a nightmare. To make a 'Swan Lake' that is worth it, every single movement and breath has to be perfect. When you have an idea of 'Swan Lake' that is as high as that, it's almost impossible.

From the ages of 5 to 17, I was a competitive dancer. I even went to an arts high school and double-majored in dance and theatre.

I grew up doing tap, jazz, and ballet, so I understand rhythm and movement and performing.