Greta Gerwig Quotes

I love dancing and practiced ballet for ten years until I realized I wouldn't make it professionally - then I started taking salsa classes. I learned to dance samba in Rio and Salvador when I lived in Brazil.

I trained in every form of dance - started as a tap dancer when I was a kid, then contemporary, ballet, ballroom, everything. Russian, Swedish.

I grew six inches in a year.

I went from being a beanpole - like a normal kid of the 1950s - and exploded. The weight piled on and didn't stop until into my adulthood.

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

The worst thing about me is my toes. I've thick joints from wearing pointe ballet shoes - I went to a dance school from the age of 11 and danced every day.

I know that dancers, especially ballet dancers, can't do it forever.

I started dancing when I was four years old and then was in class until I was about 20 years old or so, and then primarily was dancing just in shows that I was doing, but not really studying and training.

A good dancer is an educated one, so don't abandon school.

The best way to study is to go to the Cecchetti method for about a year and draw onto all the highest points and then put that into the general method.

I've studied dance since I was very young, and I continue to study ballet.

I frequently go to the ballet, but I don't miss it in the sense that I wish I were still dancing.

People don't really know, but I went to Dance Theatre of Harlem in New York.

Dancers are working their bodies just like a marathon runner would, and you have to eat to make it through a three-hour performance. Dancers put their bodies through incredible strain.

The Royal Academy of Dance is an institution that trains to a very high standard.

I was always tall, but I had a real growth spurt between 12 and 14.

Ditya Bhande is a nice dancer.

While dancing for me was fun, becoming a choreographer was not something I wanted to do.

My proficiency with ballet was on a steep decline the more I skated.

I've been dancing for 20 years. I just kept doing the same job that I've always done.

I did ballet from the age of five, but what I loved was my gymnastics. I kept the ballet going because of the gymnastics, then found I was going to be too tall.

Until I was in 6th grade, I took ballet, jazz, tap, and hip hop.

I love doing stunts, though I have to be careful with my back. As for dances, somehow I am uncomfortable doing them. I lack grace.

I was around 1.60 m or so, and then when I was 17 or 18 I started growing.

If I was trained as a dancer then I probably would have been a dancer, and I'm not.