Top 44 Ballerina Quotes

My grandma was a ballerina.

I wasn’t a crazy kid. I never went out, never went to football games. I was a trained ballerina.

I’ve always thought of modeling as a performance, so I don’t mind kind of pretending. I kind of pretend in a lot of my poses that I am a ballerina or a hip-hop dancer or a grunge performer.

As a child I wanted to be a ballerina, ice-cream van owner, wife of George Michael, a nun, and a music conductor.

When I started, there was a very strong image of what the ballerina was supposed to be in her tights and her costume, and then I started doing photo shoots in bomber boots, and it wasn’t seen as the done thing.

I always dreamt of being a girl. One of my earliest memories is spinning around in my mom’s skirt trying to look like a ballerina.

When I was little, I wanted to be a civil engineer. Not a ballerina, not a doctor, a civil engineer. I was such a nerd.

If the height of the heel is the same as the length of your foot, it starts to look wrong. And if the heel is positioned badly on the sole, you get into ballerina territory, where the body is pushed into a very strange posture. You can exaggerate the arch only so much.

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 push myself hard. I don’t like pain, exactly, but as a ballerina, I lived in constant pain. At ballet school in Stockholm, I remember we had a locker where if someone had been to the doctor and gotten painkillers, we divided them among us. In a sense, we were all addicted.

People say that wrestling is not ballet. But as a former ballerina, I’d like to see some of these men put on a pair of tights and go do what a dancer does. Because it’s a lot! It’s definitely difficult.

The first time the Kirov ballet was seen in America was on Sept. 11, 1961. The ballet was ‘Swan Lake.’ The ballerina was Inna Zubkovskaya. The place was the old Met, on what must have been one of the hottest nights of the year, and there was no air-conditioning.

My fashion icons are Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly and Ava Gardner. Their classic looks and clean lines should be the cornerstones of your wardrobe – white cotton shirts, black Capri pants, pencil skirts and ballerina skirts.

I was talking in an interview about how I would love to have a ballerina flat for men. Repetto heard about it and decided to create one. It’s almost like a slipper.

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

As a child, I had been told that I was exactly what a ballerina should be.

Girls are supposed to sing. It’s the guys’ thing to play the guitar. Crossing the line is kind of like trying to be a male ballerina. But if you work long and hard enough, are really passionate about it, people will finally shut up and listen.

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

Stretching before and after every workout keeps muscles supple and helps elongate the lines of a ballerina’s limbs.

I remember my dreams when I was a junior soloist. ‘Oh, I hope I don’t end here,’ I thought. ‘I want to do the ballerina in ‘Scotch Symphony.’ I don’t want to be the little Scotch girl.’ And I actually went beyond my wildest dreams. I worked with Balanchine. I had ballets choreographed for me.

I really enjoyed watching a ballerina named Denise Dabrowski who used to dance at California Ballet. She was a beautiful ballerina and role model for a lot of young dancers.

When I was growing up, I dreamed about becoming a cowgirl, a detective, a spy, a great actress, or a ballerina. Not a dentist, like my father, or a homemaker, like my mother – and certainly not a writer, although I always loved to read.

It’s a European art form, and you’re used to seeing a certain type of person as a ballerina. And I don’t look like a lot of the girls around me.

I wanted to be ballerina, be in a band, then in drama.

I think I wanted to be a dog trainer or a ballerina. It always changes when you’re a kid because you think you can do a million things.

I was trained by Method acting teachers and we were taught that aside from whatever gift you may or may not have or the level of that gift, that you were obliged to know how to build a table. It’s a craft. It’s like being a ballerina or a violinist.

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.

My mom is actually a former prima ballerina, and all the women in my family are associated either with dance or choreography or acting, so I’m very lucky in a way because I grew up in a family of artists. I’ve been dancing since I was a little kid.

I know some people aspire to a ballerina’s body, but I looked forward to feeling more feminine.

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

I was a ballerina, and everything I did in dance was delicate, pretty.

My parents are from Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and I feel like it’s an old Southern thing where people say that, as a kid, you can be an astronaut or a ballerina or a singer, but as a grown person, you need to go and get a job.

Fonteyn was our first proper British ballerina, and from the moment I started dancing, her image engulfed me. In my first year at the Royal Ballet School, Margot’s statue was outside my dormitory. Like generations of budding ballet dancers before me, I used to touch her middle finger for luck.

Well, it’s quite strange because there are three new Wiggles – Simon the red wiggle, Lachlan the purple wiggle and myself. We were already in the company doing different roles. Like, I was the fairy, the ballerina, and that kind of thing originally, and then I played Dorothy the Dinosaur and I was a Wiggles dancer.

I will never give up my dream of being a prima ballerina and backup dancer for Justin Timberlake!

I guess I could’ve been a prima ballerina. Or a nurse. Aretha Nightingale!

I’ve always felt like a different kind of ballerina.

In my next life, I’m going to be a rock star. I was a ballerina in my last life.

When I first went on Strictly’ I had a little phase at the beginning, you know, when I was sat next to this really beautiful lady, Darcey Bussell – this ballerina, this Snow White beauty – that I stopped eating until I looked at myself and realized I looked so gaunt.

I had never a thought of training to be a ballerina. I was a normal child. I never dreamed of the tutu.

I think that the ideal physique and look of a ballerina is always changing with different eras. And it’s continuing to change.

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

Lynn Swann – I loved the way he was like a ballerina playing in the NFL.

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.