You increase muscle bulk by training against resistance. For example, weights. And in ballet, this isn't the case.
I was a ballet dancer and that kind of bled into musical theater. I was constantly in rehearsal for one thing or another.
In terms of withstanding incredible amounts of pain - both physical and emotional - I don't think there's any better training than ballet.
The eternal and uneasy relationship between ballet and modern dance endures, but radically altered in tone and intensity.
I hated the ballet, but I liked performing. I did 20 shows, and I couldn't get the smile off my face.
I'm very flower-like. I love classical music. I go to ballet and I cry. There's nothing so beautiful.
Each morning I do my ballet class for one hour; after that, it means one hour less to get ready.
What 'War and Peace' is to the novel and 'Hamlet' is to the theater, Swan Lake' is to ballet - that is, the name which to many people stands for and sums up an art form.
My Mom is a ballet director, so I had this idea in me that classical training is the best foundation for anything you do, so I wanted to get a classical background and voice.
Everything seems to be going faster and faster. It's really harder to create something that endures. The New York City Ballet has succeeded in doing that.
Ballet Hispanico is far from Irish, and, though it has strong dancers, its Spanishness has always left me unconvinced.
When you can't follow a ballet's action, you can always read the program notes.
I went to ballet school for nine years, and there was an agent for the whole school who happened to be there visiting one of the performances. She suggested an audition.
I had been a ballet dancer and never could make a living, and just being so excited that I got to, all of a sudden, live as an actor.
You can't drink on an eight hour flight, pass out, and then go onstage... well you can, but then you're Spandau Ballet.
With both acting and ballet, often you can't just choose when you do it, whereas a painter can go at his own pace.
I trained in every form of dance - started as a tap dancer when I was a kid, then contemporary, ballet, ballroom, everything. Russian, Swedish.
My mum took me to the ballet at three, and that was the only time I sat still, with jaw open, mesmerised. She brought me home, and I wouldn't stop dancing.
Ballet pumps are the dream shoes because they are so comfortable. They look great both with jeans and summer dresses; and you can even wear the right pair with an evening gown.
Ballet Beautiful is really good for me, and it doesn't hurt my back, and it's a way for me to kind of get my heart moving and tone every part of my body.
It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style.
