Ruth Bradley Quotes

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

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

I wanted to be a ballerina as a child - I had a tutu, and I used to stage my own ballets in our front room with my family as the audience.

My favorite dancer is Sylvie Guillem.

And what would be great numbers in a Broadway show are now on stage of the New York City Ballet.

The first dance performance I saw was Joffrey Ballet doing 'Billboards' to Prince.

Classical ballet will never die.

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 thought 'Out of Africa' would be a beautiful ballet.

I am passionate about ballet.

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.

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

Growing up, my sisters were both into dancing, so I went to a lot of dance recitals, mostly because there were always pretty girls in leotards.

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.'

While other girls swooned over The Beatles and the Rolling Stones, I worshipped Rudolf Nureyev and Isadora Duncan.

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.

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

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

My grandma was a ballerina.

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.

I danced six hours a day. My cross to bear is that my children have no interest in ballet. I think they could smell how much I wanted to put their hair in a bun.

I remember that my mother used to take me to see ballets, especially if there were black people in them.

Ballet was just something that I always wanted to do.

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