Ballerina Quotes

Ballerina Quote of the day

Above all, I wanted to be appreciated as a prima ballerina who happened to be a Native American, never as someone who was an American Indian ballerina.

A ballerina takes steps given to her and makes them her own. Each individual brings something different to the same role.

I'm still trying to change the way people see black dancers that we can become delicate dancers, that we can be a ballerina.

I danced with the London Festival at Covent Garden. I'm a ballerina by trade; I'm a ballerina who sings by the way.

I was a ballerina. I had to quit after I injured a groin muscle. It wasn't mine.

Looking back at it now, I really feel like it was a gift because I don’t know if I have the talent to become a prima ballerina. It’s such a hard job to have. I don’t have any regrets about it.

I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.

When I grow up I am going to be a ballerina. I will be in Giselle. It will be so much fun being a ballerina.

I've been a ballerina since I was two, but I've always wanted to be an actress.

I do think Under Armour is setting a new example for what a ballerina is, and that you can be feminine and an athlete and represent what a woman is at the same time.

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

I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.

A real ballerina must fill her space with her own personality.

I would like to continue acting. But also - if this is a dream world where everything could become true - I'd want to be a ballerina.

Mother loved dance so much that she thought (ballerina) Margot Fonteyn should be the president.

You’re just jealous of me because I’m a tap-dancing ballerina fairy princess veterinarian!

At school I had a really hard time being a guitar player. It’s like being a male ballerina in a way. It’s not the norm.

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.

In what grade do we stop believing in ourselves? I asked. In what grade do we stop believing, period? I mean, SOMEONE has to be a Nobel Peace Prize winner. SOMEONE has to be a ballerina. Why not us?

A ballerina's life can be glorious. But it does not get any easier. I don't think anyone must ever think about it getting easier.

With 'Black Swan,' the ballerina saga flips its tiara and goes on a hallucinatory bender, a scary acid trip where transfiguration and disfiguration meet.

You've got to break through this idea of being light as a ballerina. The heavier you'll feel, the lighter you'll look.

When I was young I was soft spoken and a little bit timid and passive. My dream then was to be a ballerina or a figure skater - something very delicate.

I was born to be a ballerina - my physique, my spirit, my feeling for music. What I am can only be expressed in dance. I am an erotic woman and that's what dance is.

I always wanted to perform in some capacity since I was a kid - I was a ballerina, then a singer before acting.

I would rather dance as a ballerina, though faultily, than as a flawless clown.

I was very sensitive. I liked everything that touched fantasy and beauty. I dreamed of being a ballerina, but Mother said I was too big, too long.

I've always wanted to be a professional dancer, I'd always wanted to be a ballerina. I trained for 13 years but it never came to be.

I feel such a difference between a philologist/linguist and a linguaphile as, say, a choreographer and a ballerina.

When one lifts a ballerina, it is not her weight but her nature that causes the problem.

I think it was important that I learned to love to dance eventually for its own sake, as opposed to wanting to be a ballerina.

I have no interest in being a trained ballerina. People should dance how they want to dance. I want to be the funky chicken.

A toe shoe is as eccentric as the ballerina who wears it: their marriage is a commitment.

I wanted to be a ballerina. I studied ballet for 19 years.

I have been a ballerina, a cheerleader and a sorority girl. I was the girliest girl alive.

I was not awesome at dancing. For a ballerina, I probably started too late. Plus I enjoyed entertaining people too much.

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.

Blue jean baby, LA lady, seamstress for the band. Pretty eyed, pirate smile, you'll marry a music man. Ballerina, you must have seen her dancing in the sand.

I have too much respect for ballet to dare practice it. I did ask ballerina Megan LeCrone to teach me jetés. She said that was impossible but did observe that I have great feet.

If I could choose something besides fashion, I would love to be a ballerina.

As a former ballerina, I can't put down Maggie Shipstead's new book, Astonish Me.

I wanted to be a ballerina so badly. You can be seen and take over the spotlight without speaking. I had a fear of speaking in public back then.

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

If anything at all, perfection is not when there is nothing to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

There are those who dance the notes and those who dance the music.

Dancing is creating a sculpture that is visible only for a moment.

As the last curtain falls on a spent year, a new year pirouettes to center stage with the elegance and charm of a prima ballerina – and delivers the promise of peace, hope, love and joy.