The first show I did was 'The Nutcracker' ballet. I was one of the kids who comes out in the beginning.

- Ansel Elgort

I started with ballet and then my cousin Sarah introduced me to her tap teachers.

- Adam Garcia

The highest heels I do are six-inch heels - but mostly only dancers can wear them, since they are used to being on point in ballet shoes. Their feet are arched.

- Christian Louboutin

Coco Chanel was always doing things with ballet, so it is a tradition clashing fashion and ballet.

- Carine Roitfeld

I think that ballet is very good for the body. It's very similar to yoga, because you have to hold a position.

- Carine Roitfeld

Maybe people have no idea how much work is behind a picture. It can seem very effortless, but there is a lot of work. It's exactly like doing ballet. It's hours and hours, but when you go onstage, it's just the pleasure of dancing.

- Carine Roitfeld

Ballet is good, because it makes you stand up tall.

- Carine Roitfeld

I am passionate about ballet.

- Benjamin Millepied

Most dancers have no awareness of how they look; half of them think they're fat. There is anorexia in the ballet world; there are those things.

- Benjamin Millepied

I've never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.

- Bebe Neuwirth

Cincinnatians support a symphony, an opera, a ballet, museums, many galleries and theater groups.

- Bill Dedman

Some people are painters, and some are ballet dancers, and I'm a writer.

- Alice Walker

I've been very physical my whole life. I've done a lot of ballet, fencing and karate, and everything.

- Ashley Bell

There might've been wires, but I have this ability to make myself light. Well you know what, in ballet, when you kind of lift yourself here, it's all up in the head.

- Albert Finney

Ballet costumes are easier that opera because they are designed for movement.

- Azzedine Alaia

I was very much a tomboy. I just couldn't do the pink ballet tutus.

- Ashley Wagner

I've always been a bit of a poser. I was chucked out of ballet lessons for looking in the mirror.

- Abbey Clancy

I hated the ballet, but I liked performing. I did 20 shows, and I couldn't get the smile off my face.

- Ansel Elgort

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

- Amy Adams

When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire.

- Angelina Jolie