Ballerina Quotes

#1. You're just jealous of me because I'm a tap-dancing ballerina fairy princess veterinarian!

Lemony Snicket

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

Beverly Cleary

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

Maris Liepa

#4. 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.

Judy Blume

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

Chita Rivera

#6. I wanted to be a skinny little ballerina but I was a voluptuous little Italian girl whose dad had meatballs on the table every night.

Lady Gaga

#7. 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.

April Bowlby

#8. When Disney was creating Elsa, they based a lot of her movements on that of a ballerina, which was interesting for me to find out because I actually did ballet years ago. That definitely informed some of the ways I made her walk and move.

Georgina Haig

#9. To become a classical ballerina, you have to move to New York when you're 12 or 11 and that becomes your life. I just wanted to be good in my company in Charleston and I wanted it to always be part of my life.

Jennifer Garner

#10. Chris was in the rocker, fully clothed, and was strumming idly on
Cory's guitar. "Dance, ballerina, dance," he softly chanted, and his
singing voice wasn't bad at all. Maybe we could work as musicians
a
trio -if Carrie ever recovered enough to want a voice again.

V.C. Andrews

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

Michaela DePrince

#12. 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.

Ksenia Solo

#13. A lot of people think, "Oh I'm going to eat whatever I want and then go to the gym." And I've definitely been one of those people and it just doesn't give me the results that I need to have the physique of a ballerina.

Misty Copeland

#14. I used to want to be a war photographer, and I used to want to be a ballerina and a comedian. I used to want to be a writer. I invalidated myself; it's a mistake for me.

Cat Power

#15. I am just so thankful that my mom was a fantastic mom. She wasn't a stage mother; she didn't push me. She was happy if I was happy. We are so different. I was very shy; my mom did all the talking. She was my strength. She never expected that I would be this ballerina.

Patricia McBride

#16. An ex-ABT ballerina, while staging a ballet for the company, once followed a dancer into the bathroom to deliver notes through the stall door. She was known to bark - literally, like a dog - during private rehearsals.

Sascha Radetsky

#17. In her mind, Em was a deranged ballerina-child who smelled like bubblegum and only ate McDonald's Happy Meals.

Sarah Addison Allen

#18. Me in high school, I was kind of a loner. I had a handful of friends. I'd eat my lunch in my car every day in my senior year. I went to ballet. I was a ballerina, so I was very focused on that. You kind of have to be. That was two-thirds of my week, going to ballet class.

Olesya Rulin

#19. 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.

Patricia McBride

#20. 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.

Jacqueline De Ribes

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

Kato Lomb

#22. The sheer strength of the storm lifted my body further and I began twisting with it like a ballerina in an out of control pirouette.

Elle Klass

#23. American Ballet Theatre's rehearsal studios are at 890 Broadway, an old building where exposed pipes clank and hiss in uneven accompaniment to piano music. The high ceilings wear a toupee of dust. The wall paint peels like a newbie ballerina's toes.

Sascha Radetsky

#24. I don't want to be anything else other than a ballerina. I love what I do outside of my work, but at the end of the day, I have to sacrifice.

Misty Copeland

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

Margaret Atwood

#26. 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.

Alicia Markova

#27. 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.

Orianthi

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

Rita Rudner

#29. Yes, Mel. That's exactly why I left without explaining. Because I think about you before I think about myself. Always remember that, Little Ballerina. Always.

L.J. Shen

#30. After working fourteen-hour shifts in the mines, inhaling so much nickel they sneezed silver glitter, none could have expected a private performance from the prima ballerina of the Kirov.

Anthony Marra

#31. He connected the mechanism for the clock to a mechanical ballerina,and the toy danced uninterruptedly to the rhythm of her own music for three days.That discovery excited him so much more than any of his other hair-brained undertakings

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#32. 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.

Robert Gottlieb

#33. If you were ever a ballerina, you know the pain: just to be able to look like it's all so light, but when they take off their shoes, it's all bloody.

Michelle Yeoh

#34. 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.

Misty Copeland

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

Haley Webb

#36. You're the one with the badge," I admitted, "but I'm the one being haunted by a seven-year-old in a ballerina costume.

Linda Lael Miller

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

Carine Roitfeld

#38. Kids are always told that they can be anything that they want. But what if you want to be a ballerina, and you're terrible at ballet? Or what if you're gifted at ballet, but you don't like doing it?

Lisa Graff

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

Gelsey Kirkland

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

Jane Seymour

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

Stella Soleil

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

Toni Bentley

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

Misty Copeland

#44. 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.

Bitsie Tulloch

#45. I was born into a family of gospel singers. My early ambitions were many. I was going to be a ballerina. I almost had that one come true until I tore a tendon, so I transferred from my toes to my throat and that's where the talent settled.

Dionne Warwick

#46. I was a ballerina for a good 12 years. When I was 15 I had to stop. It wasn't a choice, it was an injury that prevented me from going forward in ballet unfortunately. Well, fortunately because I wouldn't be doing what I am doing now if that had not happened.

Kiesza

#47. Do not regret the things you didn't do," Tamika said. "If you're going to regret something, it has to be the things you have done. We are not made up of the inverse of our experiences. If we were what we didn't do, I would be a ballerina.

Rose Christo

#48. I never knew I wanted to become a ballerina. I was discovered at the age of 13. I had a love for movement even though I had no exposure to dance other than what I saw in music videos, like hip-hop music videos. But I knew that I loved moving.

Misty Copeland

#49. ... .watch me rise like smoke from fire.
Watch me fly above your hate.
Watch me dance upon your meanness
like a ballerina with posture; grace.
Watch me laugh over your hatred;
watch me soar above your sea of grief.
And know that I am out there somewhere ...
C R U S H I N G.

Coco J. Ginger

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

Koren Zailckas

#51. 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.

Ellen Barkin

#52. 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.

Evangeline Lilly

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

Natalia Makarova

#54. The idea of calling this guy "dude" was ridiculous. His low, crisp voice sounded faintly English, definitely like he'd been raised somewhere outside the U.S. He was no more a dude than Fitz was a ballerina.

Suleikha Snyder

#55. Perseverance has always just been something that was in me. And it was a tool that came in very handy as a ballerina.

Misty Copeland

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

Maria Tallchief

#57. He wont have to worry about you spilling his secrets."
"Yeah," Jace said, "he's terrified I'll tell everyone that he's always really wanted to be a ballerina."
-Inquisitor & Jace about Valentine, pg.123-

Cassandra Clare

#58. 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.

Misty Copeland

#59. Her name was Dominika Egorova. She was a ballerina, an officer in the SVR, a Sparrow trained to bend others' minds. She loved and was loved in return.

Jason Matthews

#60. I actually came to New York when I was 12 and did ballet school for a little while. I was being groomed to be professional, and a lot of the professors and teachers there were drawn to me and thought that I could become a professional ballerina.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

#61. 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.

Karen Kain

#62. How awfully convenient for you, regardless. And for him. He won't have to worry about you spilling his secrets."
"Yeah," Jace said. "He's terrified I'll tell everyone that he's always wanted to be a ballerina.

Cassandra Clare

#63. If you're wearing ballerina flats during the day, throw on a pair of strappy sandals with a heel on them and some little bangles and you can go from day to evening really just with a change of accessories.

Peter Som

#64. The "feminine" woman is forever static and childlike. She is like the ballerina in an old-fashioned music box, her unchanging features tiny and girlish, her voice tinkly, her body stuck on a pin, rotating in a spiral that will never grow.

Susan Faludi

#65. 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.

Elton John

#66. Nobody approves of the ballerina and the poor boy.

Nichele Reese

#67. 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.

Christian Louboutin

#68. When I was in school, I dreamed about becoming a psychiatrist or a ballerina. Like most girls I would dream about being a movie star too. But those dreams are the impossible kind, the kind you don't really set your heart on.

Sharon Tate

#69. They don't want it."

Fat Jimmy

From Fat Jimmy and the Blind Ballerina due out 2017

Eddie Owens

#70. 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.

Suzanne Farrell

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

James Wolcott

#72. 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.

Marie Helvin

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

Scott McClanahan

#74. 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.

Diane Kruger

#75. With her grace and grit, and the will to lead change, Misty Copeland is truly a ballerina for our time.

Heather Watts

#76. After tiny has tried ballerina pose, swing-batter-batter pose, pump-up-the-jam pose, and top-of-the-mountain-sound-of-music pose in the reflection of the bean, he walks us to a bench overlooking lake shore drive.

David Levithan

#77. Dolorita Hunsickle says that the chipmunks tell your fortune if you catch them but I never did. She says a chipmunk told her she would grow up to be a famous ballerina and that she would die of consumption unloved in a boardinghouse in Prague.

Neil Gaiman

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

Amy Smart

#79. He looked like a hallucinating ballerina in boxer shorts,

Rick Riordan

#80. 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.

Elle Fanning

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

Misty Copeland

#82. My grandma was actually a pretty well-known opera singer in Cuba, and then my mom was a ballerina. Two of my three sisters are dancers, so we grew up in the arts.

Frankie J. Alvarez

#83. The first movement ballerina should be a paradigm of strength and authority.

Robert Gottlieb

#84. The ballerina on perfected toe
Spins to the axis of a fortitude
That is the sum of all her yesterdays.

Djuna Barnes

#85. I was a professional ballerina. After becoming an actress, I did a lot of theater, which included musical theater. The first musical play I did was Murray Schisgal's 'The Pushcart Peddlers.'

Juliet Landau

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

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

#87. 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,

Maria Tallchief

#88. What really matters is that 'Black Swan' deploys and exaggerates all the cliches of earlier ballet movies, especially 'The Red Shoes,' another tale of a ballerina driven mad and suicidal.

Robert Gottlieb

#89. 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.

Emayatzy E. Corinealdi

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

Erin O'Connor

#91. From the age of three to 15, I wanted to be a ballerina and trained really, really hard. Then I had that classic movie story moment, where I had an injury and had to give up my dream.

Kiesza

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

Dakota Fanning

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

Caitlin Moran

#94. I have a sister who is a dancer and dance teacher. We grew up dancing together. I wanted to become a ballerina when I was a kid, so she and I were always at ballet conservatories and going to school with our hair in buns.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

#95. At what grade do we stop believing in ourselves? At what grade do we stop believing period? I mean, someone has to be a Noble Peace Prize winner, someone has to be a ballerina. Why not us? I can't be the only one who gets that.

Chris Colfer

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

Judy Greer

#97. Death is my art form--when I fight, I'm a ballerina. Graceful. Chi lacks my grace, but makes up for it in energy and enthusiasm. His fighting style is like breakdancing--strong and frenetic with some really sweet moves. Jo's is . . .the Macarena. Ugly but gets the job done.

Eliza Crewe

#98. Like all shrinks she was a deeply troubled person.

From "Fat Jimmy And The Blind Ballerina" due out early 2017.

Eddie Owens

#99. 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.

Lucy Hawking

#100. Maybe I'm seeing myself in a different way than the people in the audience see me, 'cause to me, I think I look like a ballerina and I feel like a ballerina. But maybe I'm not seeing what other people are seeing.

Misty Copeland