Top 140 Ballerina Quotes & Sayings
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Last updated on April 14, 2025.
I think that the ideal physique and look of a ballerina is always changing with different eras. And it's continuing to change.
The force for change I represent is of course from being a mixed-race ballerina.
For a ballerina, the worst thing imaginable is big thighs.
I would rather dance as a ballerina, though faultily, than as a flawless clown.
Besides a princess and a ballerina and a firefighter and a vet, I think I wanted to be an artist.
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.
I think it's never too late to start anything, except maybe being a ballerina.
I was a ballerina, and everything I did in dance was delicate, pretty.
Stretching before and after every workout keeps muscles supple and helps elongate the lines of a ballerina's limbs.
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.
I love nutcrackers, as I was a ballerina growing up.
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.
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 always looked at the process and the career of being a ballerina as sacred. It's a true gift to have this talent and perform these masterworks; it's sublime.
The first movement ballerina should be a paradigm of strength and authority.
I always wanted to perform in some capacity since I was a kid - I was a ballerina, then a singer before acting.
I will never give up my dream of being a prima ballerina and backup dancer for Justin Timberlake!
A real ballerina must fill her space with her own personality.
I wanted to be a ballerina. I studied ballet for 19 years.
You’re just jealous of me because I’m a tap-dancing ballerina fairy princess veterinarian!
When one lifts a ballerina, it is not her weight but her nature that causes the problem.
I wanted to be ballerina, be in a band, then in drama.
My grandma was a ballerina.
I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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.
As a former ballerina, I can't put down Maggie Shipstead's new book, Astonish Me.
As a child, I had been told that I was exactly what a ballerina should be.
A toe shoe is as eccentric as the ballerina who wears it: their marriage is a commitment.
I have been a ballerina, a cheerleader and a sorority girl. I was the girliest girl alive.
I've been a ballerina since I was two, but I've always wanted to be an actress.
I guess I could've been a prima ballerina. Or a nurse. Aretha Nightingale!
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.
If I could choose something besides fashion, I would love to be a ballerina.
Lynn Swann - I loved the way he was like a ballerina playing in the NFL.
Before founding Ballet Beautiful, I was a ballerina with the New York City Ballet.
You've got to break through this idea of being light as a ballerina. The heavier you'll feel, the lighter you'll look.
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 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.
Perseverance has always just been something that was in me. And it was a tool that came in very handy as a ballerina.
At a young age, I wanted to be a prima ballerina and had these grand ideas that I would go study at Juilliard. It's something I laugh about now.
In my next life, I'm going to be a rock star. I was a ballerina in my last life.
I wasn't a crazy kid. I never went out, never went to football games. I was a trained ballerina.
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.
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.
The dream was to be a prima ballerina.
I feel such a difference between a philologist/linguist and a linguaphile as, say, a choreographer and a ballerina.
With her grace and grit, and the will to lead change, Misty Copeland is truly a ballerina for our time.
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.
I was a ballerina for 10 years growing up, but I stopped.
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.
I know some people aspire to a ballerina's body, but I looked forward to feeling more feminine.
I never dreamt of becoming a ballerina. I was just curious about it, it was something to explore.
Being a ballerina can be a very unnatural life, especially after you've had children.
With 'Black Swan,' the ballerina saga flips its tiara and goes on a hallucinatory bender, a scary acid trip where transfiguration and disfiguration meet.
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've always felt like a different kind of ballerina.
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 a ballerina. I had to quit after I injured a groin muscle. It wasn't mine.
As a child I wanted to be a ballerina, ice-cream van owner, wife of George Michael, a nun, and a music conductor.
