Ansel Elgort Quotes

My mom always wanted me be a ballerina, and I was just adamant that I wanted to be a track star. I wanted nothing to do with ballet.

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

I was born in Toronto and studied with the National Ballet of Canada. I went to school to study dance, slept on the floor, ate nothing, waitressed - and then there was a Mary J. Blige audition.

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

I went to the Performing Arts School and studied classical ballet. That attitude is something that's put into your head. You are never thin enough.

I have been very lucky to work in so many new ballets, but that is what a dancer's work is.

Since I was a child I've loved going to the opera, theatre and ballet.

Growing up in Niagara Falls, Ontario, I took classes as a young girl and became very serious about ballet, and also performed with a local company, although it wasn't a professional company.

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

I always looked at the process and the career of being a ballerina as sacred. It's a true gift to have this talent and perform these masterworks; it's sublime.

After I finished 'Center Stage,' I went back to San Francisco, and I danced for seven seasons with the San Francisco Ballet.

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

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 was used to having a job - ballet was my job, and I felt like I needed something artistic to focus on after I quit.

I grew up doing tap, jazz, and ballet, so I understand rhythm and movement and performing.

I used to sing when I was into local theatre but gave it up to concentrate on dance.

Ballet is the fairies' baseball.

I'm a classical ballet dancer, and at the end of the day I want to be with American Ballet Theater, performing classical ballets.

There are no taking days off. There are no distractions. If I had that, I physically wouldn't be capable of going onstage and performing live theater. It's extremely demanding. I have to be in ballet class every day.

I studied dance for about 15 years, various disciplines, with classical ballet as my primary.

Ballet dancing is arduous, strenuous activity. Students are engaged in physical training that rivals the training Olympic athletes undergo. At the same time, they strive for physical perfection not for the prowess alone but as a way of achieving the means necessary to express the pure nature of their art.

I think that I'm so fortunate to have found classical ballet. It completely changed my life and it shaped the person that I am today, on and off the stage.

I did ballet, jazz and flamenco from when I was five years old. And my professional career started with dancing in musicals.

Going on stage and doing ballet, for the first time, was even more verification of, "This is what I'm meant to do. This is what I'm going to do. I'm going to make it somehow."

Pointe shoes are torture devices. I mean, ballerinas get used to it, but it was definitely a new experience for me. They feel medieval. I was very happy to stop wearing them.