Misty Copeland Quotes

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

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

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

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 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.

In the beginning, he taught you how to hold your fingers, use your head, hold your shoulders, how you glissade, bourre - the exact way he wanted you to do the steps. It was relearning the whole Balanchine technique.

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

In ballet class, I felt like Ralph Wiggum.

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

I always liked dancing and you'd go to class and find you had an hour acting and an hour of ballet.

Up until I was about 12, I was a ballet dancer and a basketball player.

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

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

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

I've always enjoyed dancing, and I train myself in it. I try to hone my skills whenever I get the chance.

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've trained in dance for most of my life, but ballet was the thing I left behind the earliest because they felt like I didn't have the right body for it, and I didn't like that and never felt like I could be a part of that dance structure.

We moved from the suburbs to L.A. and I picked up break dancing when I was 10. I joined a dance crew in high school and I was battling. I also took ballet most of my life until high school.

I'm taking dance lessons and getting stuck in. It's a great way of keeping fit, and it's obviously a big part of Bollywood movies, so I need to learn.

Dance classes are not designed to be workouts - they're designed to teach skill.

I didn't grow up playing football. I wanted to be a basketball player.