Jessica Brown Findlay Quotes

I've been practicing ballet since I was three years old.

At 7, I was at the barre and dancing at folk festivals. Then I was a student with the ballet school of the Metropolitan Opera.

I wanted to be a male ballet dancer.

Certainly, when you train as a classical dancer, you are very much influenced by 'Giselle.' You see it all the time; you start to learn the steps a little.

I was a ballerina for 10 years growing up, but I stopped.

I grew up in the theater and danced ballet atrociously.

In the world of classical ballet there are only a handful of story ballets, so getting a new one is cause for excitement.

Ballet is an incredibly difficult, beautiful art form that takes a lot of training, a lot of time, and a lot of hard work.

One of the few things in dance to match the Royal Ballet's curtain calls is the Royal Ballet's dancing.

Before founding Ballet Beautiful, I was a ballerina with the New York City Ballet.

The first time the Kirov ballet was seen in America was on Sept. 11, 1961. The ballet was 'Swan Lake.' The ballerina was Inna Zubkovskaya. The place was the old Met, on what must have been one of the hottest nights of the year, and there was no air-conditioning.

Classical ballet will never die.

You cannot dance an arabesque in 'Swan Lake' and 'Nutcracker' the same way.

When I was younger, people would always say, 'Are you a ballet dancer?' I had that look - one of those skinny kids with my hair in a bun.

The ballet world, it's a crazy world.

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

I had never a thought of training to be a ballerina. I was a normal child. I never dreamed of the tutu.

And then you have the classical ballerinas, they're like sopranos. Applied to the dance.

My favorite dancer is Sylvie Guillem.

I am passionate about ballet.

So I'm studying ballet every day and really training so people will see me as a ballet dancer, which no one's seen before.

All the New York City Ballet does is hit beautiful home runs.

By the end of 'Swan Lake,' you know how there's all the corps on stage, and she keeps running in the back, doing arms? You can't feel your arms. You're just like, 'Ow.'

I didn't know if I could act, but I knew I could be a great ballet dancer, and Balanchine put out the carpet for me.

Technical things are getting more mechanical. Take 'Swan Lake,' the Black Swan pas de deux. Now, my goodness, they're turning not just 32 fouettes - but double or triple pirouettes.