Yuan Yuan Tan Quotes

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.

Without dancing you can never attain a perfectly graceful carriage, which is of the highest importance in life.

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

I'm a big fan of Clint Eastwood, but the Westerns I draw from most directly come from an earlier period in Hollywood. I actually look back at movies like 'Rio Bravo' and others I've liked over the years, and I capture pictures from the movies and use them as a reference for the scenes I create.

I love Audrey Hepburn.

I have been presented with roles with demand not just a physical ability but mental disciplines as well. 'Memoirs of a Geisha' was not so much about physical exertion... it was much more graceful and contained than that.

I was the kid that grew up watching Bette Davis films.

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

If I'm at a party, I can put on some crazy dance moves. However, it's not synchronized, beautiful or choreographed like a ballet dancer. I'd love to be graceful like that.

One of my favourite actors of all time, although he doesn't necessarily play villains, is Peter Lorre.

I love Olivia De Havilland. She is forever a lady.

I loved Fred Astaire's way of dancing. He led you into the dance.

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.

I own the complete DVD set of all the Audrey Hepburn movies ever made.

Ballet is the fairies' baseball.

I believe that I definitely developed into a refined and graceful woman due to ballet. It has shaped me in every way.

When I'm doing well, it's like I'm in a nice little ballet. Everything is going slow all around me. It's very peaceful.

Even when she walks one would believe that she dances.

Whenever I see grace, I’m moved.

Grace is a feminine quality.

Elegance is not an outer quality, but a part of the soul that is visible to others.

Deepika is the epitome of classiness and hotness; she maintains that balance really well.

Hardship is vanishing, but so is style, and the two are more closely connected than the present generation supposes.

Neither refinement nor delicacy is indispensable to produce elegance.