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I actually quit ballet when I was 14,
AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE At age 14, coming to the U.S., all I knew was American Ballet Theatre, Baryshnikov, Nureyev, and som...
CARLA KORBES It's sort of 'I Love Lucy' meets American Ballet Theatre.
TORY DOBRIN Radio City Music Hall was at the table. Alvin Ailey, Hubbard Street, the New York City Ballet, Ameri...
RICHARD GIBBS But then my father was transferred to New York, and ... I knew this was it. I saw the bright lights,...
AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE movement for movement's sake.
AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE Jeremy Irons of ballet.
AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE The human aspect has to be minimized, but what do you do? All we can give back to the audience is fr...
AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE I actually quit ballet when I was offered a job, an apprenticeship at North Carolina Dance Theater C...
MARGARET QUALLEY 'The Firebird' just symbolizes a lot for me and my career. It was one of the first really bi...
MISTY COPELAND When I was five years old, I told my parents that I wanted to take ballet. So, ballet was the focus ...
CHANDRA WEST I did ballet and gymnastics, and then I started acting when I was eight - just doing amateur theater...
OLIVIA COOKE I don't think she has missed a class or rehearsal since the fall [when she joined Ballet Theatre].
JAN DIJKWEL I think American Ballet Theatre is setting that standard now for classical ballet, that you can drea...
MISTY COPELAND
I actually learned the guitar with the help of a Pete Seeger instructional record when I was 13 or 1... DAVID GILMOUR
The last time I had to make a career decision, I was 17. I could have gone to Ballet Theatre or Nati... DAMIAN WOETZEL
Since I was 13 or 14 I've always felt older than I actually am. KATE WINSLET
The best physique I ever had was when I was ballet dancing. MANU BENNETT I knew I wanted to be a ballet dancer, but what kind, I wasn't sure. My two dream companies had ...
WENDY WHELAN When I was 14 or 15, I was a really good volleyball player, so I thought, 'Well, maybe I'll ...
ELIZABETH OLSEN I used to dance when I was younger - ballet and modern dance.
NASTASSJA KINSKI
I actually hated dancing. My mum used to have to bribe me to go by buying me things. A year before I... KATARINA JOHNSON-THOMPSON
I did 14 movies in six years, I had a cartoon TV show, and I don't want to do that again. I just... MACAULAY CULKIN
I used to do puppet theatre and also mime and musical theatre in Florida for competitions and festiv... WESLEY SNIPES But then my father was transferred to New York, and ... I knew this was it. I saw the bright lights,...
AMERICAN THEATRE movement for movement's sake.
AMERICAN THEATRE Jeremy Irons of ballet.
AMERICAN THEATRE The human aspect has to be minimized, but what do you do? All we can give back to the audience is fr...
AMERICAN THEATRE I went away when I was 9 to a ballet school. I thought I wanted to be a dancer, but eight years of b...
JULIET MILLS
There was a point when I was around 14, STEVE MARTIN When I was 30, I used to wonder when I was going to quit playing. Use disorder worry about it. Now, ...
DAVIS MILLER
I started elocution lessons because I was being teased, and I had a brilliant drama teacher. At the ... GINA BELLMAN When I was at the Royal Ballet School, I remember receiving my first eyeshadow palette from Marks &a...
DARCEY BUSSELL
I grew up doing musical theatre in Orlando, Florida. When I was 14, I just happened to be in the rig... MANDY MOORE
I was sent to ballet classes when I was a little girl. I wasn't very good, but it's that thi... CAT DEELEY
I was in 30-plus clubs when I was 14 years old. T-PAIN I started modeling when I was 13 or 14, I think.
LARA STONE I knew I wanted to act when I was around 14.
DANIEL STERN I used to smoke when I was younger, but I quit.
KATIE SCHMIDT
My background is somewhat unusual, as I trained to be a ballet dancer. I worked in the theatre for e... WILL KEMP I was quite short and chubby until I was 14, when I shot up.
RAJIV OUSEPH I actually emptied a theatre. It was a 40-minute film, and about 400 people left during the screenin...
BILL FORSYTH I grew up learning ballet, and then I took up contemporary as I got older. I probably thought I was ...
ELIZABETH DEBICKI I was 14 when I started smoking, and it was to be cool.
CASEY ROBERTS I started making pita when I was 14; now I'm 58.
ANA ARAPOVIC I love ballet. Ballet is its own being. It has its own vocabulary. I feel as if I am in a different ...
KIERNAN SHIPKA
I started taking ballet lessons when I was three and a half and I still take dance classes. OKSANA BAIUL
For 'X-Men' I was lifting a lot of weights. I actually lost a lot of mass when I quit 'X... JENNIFER LAWRENCE The first willing concert I went to was Aerosmith when I was like 14.
EDWARD FURLONG
I could have gone the route of a lot of these former child actors, but I didn't want that for my... MACAULAY CULKIN
When I was 14, I was the oldest I ever was. I've been getting younger ever since. SHIRLEY TEMPLE
You should have seen me at 14, with braces and glasses, gangly and doing ballet! MARGOT ROBBIE In fact, ballet companies did not exist in the Midwest when I was a child.
SUZANNE FARRELL I went to the Glasgow Youth Theatre and they just let me in. But I was so shy that I was there for a...
BILL FORSYTH At 14 and 15, I used to listen to Tito Puente, Dave Valentine and everything that was happening with...
LA INDIA When I started drama school, theatre was the main draw. I never had any movie star notions. Not that...
ANNE-MARIE DUFF
I used to be one of the lead actors of a theatre group called Hetu when I was in medical school. Pri... VIKRAM PATEL
When I was a little kid, I took tap and ballet. I've always loved to dance. I'm a rhythm machine. TOMMY LEE When my mother was born on 14 April, he named her after a Latin American holiday, the Day of America...
AMERICA FERRERA I am grateful to theatre for making me what I am today. But it's not like theatre is my first lo...
OM PURI
I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught. RABIH ALAMEDDINE I started in television as a youngster and was 14 when I started acting professionally.
BROOKE NEVIN I was a dancer for about 14 years. I was a martial artist for the same amount of time. I quit that w...
FALK HENTSCHEL My introduction to acting was through theatre, so I actually saw a couple of Broadway shows that mad...
SKYLAR ASTIN I was doing TV work, theatre work, and some film work in the Philippines when I left.
LEA SALONGA When I was doing fringe theatre, my ambition was to do repertory. When I got to rep it was to do nat...
EDDIE MARSAN We had a great drama department and a great on site voice teacher actually. I started taking lessons...
CHAD KIMBALL My family is Native American, and I was raised with Native American ceremonies.
ERIC BALFOUR
Yes, I took up the guitar when I was about 14 or 15, in high school. BEAU BRIDGES
I used to drive up from theatre in Michigan to Stratford, Ontario to watch every show. I idolized th... ROBERT ENGLUND I knew when he released the ball it was good. We never quit.
BOO HARDY
I lost my virginity when I was 14. And I haven't been able to find it. DAVID DUCHOVNY The people who enjoy classical music, opera, even classical ballet, would come to classical theatre ...
JOHN WRIGHT
These days I wonder more and more why people are pessimistic when American history actually supports... BELL HOOKS I was hard on Daryle. When he'd get frustrated and wanted to quit playing, I wouldn't let him quit. ...
GARY WARD
When I'm 33, I quit. MICK JAGGER
Heaven help the American-born boy with a talent for ballet. CAMILLE PAGLIA I always knew I wanted to dance. I started ballet when I was three years old, and I just knew it was...
BIANCA MARROQUIN I began with dance, doing ballet at 3, then tap, jazz, modern. Then I sang in church choirs, learned...
SAMANTHA BARKS
I am the product of the American education system. It is a system that has always been on the lookou... JAMES A. MICHENER Through ballet I was fortunate to find a place to escape, a refuge from my feelings of being an outs...
HEATHER WHITESTONE
I played American Legion ball starting when I was 14. But I didn't catch until I was 17. I was 7... JOHNNY BENCH Not every story has explosions and car chases. That's why they have nudity and espionage.
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Up until I was about 12, I was a ballet dancer and a basketball player. KATHERINE MCNAMARA
Look for it, and it can’t be seen.Listen for it, and it can’t be heard.
Grasp for it,...
LAO TZU I tried a little of everything when I was little. I tried karate, I tried ballet, I tried piano less...
CASSIE VENTURA I started singing in my church choir, and then when I got to middle school, I had the coolest musica...
SHANICE WILLIAMS There was a prison uprising at Alcatraz, and I drove the Marines over there in a landing craft to qu...
BUD GRANT I began dancing when I was 7 years old. I was told that I had the perfect ballet dancer's body a...
CATHERINE MARY STEWART
I trained as a dancer when I was much younger, for a large amount of time, like 6 or 7 years. Not to... VINCENT CASSEL When I was growing up I actually was into Bon Jovi!
AMY RYAN Ballet became this escape for me. I feel like I was on my own a lot. I was searching for stability, ...
MISTY COPELAND
Americans never quit. DOUGLAS MACARTHUR
The movies I made when I was 14 or 15, I have a hard time looking at those. Those were the awkward y... JODIE FOSTER American Ballet Theatre's rehearsal studios are at 890 Broadway, an old building where exposed p...
SASCHA RADETSKY I was in eighth grade when I did my first Junior Theatre show. I was in 'Annie Get Your Gun'...
CASEY NICHOLAW I was a ballet dancer growing up and that's what I was convinced I would be.
CANDICE SWANEPOEL I was about 10 when I got into nuclear science. That was when that spark hit me. It took a few years...
TAYLOR WILSON At 14, 15 or 16 years old, he'd be interested. When a male dancer sees how lucky he is to be among a...
HERCI MARSDEN
I quit my job, and went ashore to become a writer. THEODORE STURGEON
Loose lips sink ships 
A mill cannot grind with water that is past. 
Feed a cold; starve a fever 
The short- term plan, then, is an operative plan defining goals in writing and clearly indicating ho... 
No river can return to its source, yet all rivers must have a beginning. 
It is better to have less thunder in the mouth and more lightning in the hand. 
No tree has branches so foolish as to fight among themselves. 