Ballerina Quotes · Page 2

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

— Beverly Cleary

“Dance to inspire, dance to freedom, life is about experiences so dance and let yourself become free.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

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

— Sylvie Guillem

“Through synergy of intellect, artistry and grace came into existence the blessing of a dancer.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

“Show me a person who found love in his life and did not celebrate it with a dance.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

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

— Margaret Atwood

Being a ballerina can be a very unnatural life, especially after you've had children.

— Darcey Bussell

“Make dance the mission every moment seeks to accomplish.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

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

— Carine Roitfeld

“One step, two steps, three steps; like winds of time experience joy of centuries, when movements become revelations of the dance of…

— Shah Asad Rizvi

You cannot help but watch ballet dancers like Precious Adams without realizing that a classical ballerina can be black. However, talking about…

— Michaela DePrince

Dance in the most perishable of the arts. Ballets are forgotten, ballerinas retire, choreographers die--and what remains of that glorious production which…

— Jack Anderson

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

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

— Misty Copeland

You never advance without losing something en passant... you lose it because you're paying so much attention to the new thing.

— Ninette de Valois

I was born to be a ballerina - my physique, my spirit, my feeling for music. What I am can only be…

— Natalia Makarova

I think I wanted to be a dog trainer or a ballerina. It always changes when you're a kid because you think…

— Stacy Martin

When I was six I wanted to be a ballerina. By the time I was eight I was fairly sure this plan…

— Elizabeth Crook

I never knew I wanted to become a ballerina. I was discovered at the age of 13. I had a love for…

— Misty Copeland

I work for perfection, for perfection's sake. I don't care what the external reasons are. And it's much more like a ballerina…

— Story Musgrave

“You could have been a ballerina,” Mme. Padva remarks to Celia. “You are quite good on your feet.” “I am good off…

— Erin Morgenstern

A lot of people think, "Oh I'm going to eat whatever I want and then go to the gym." And I've definitely…

— Misty Copeland

Around the corner [ of the Carnegie Delicatessen] is the Russian Tea Room, which is now out of business. Which is awful.…

— Paul Laffoley

I was a ballerina for a good 12 years. When I was 15 I had to stop. It wasn't a choice, it…

— Kiesza

How difficult it is to exist, that we are athlete and artist. We have injuries. People don't see the hard side of…

— Misty Copeland

“Burdened no more is soul for whom life flows through dance like breath.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

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

— Peyton Royce

For a ballerina, the worst thing imaginable is big thighs.

— Mary Helen Bowers

“Burdened no more is soul for whom life flows through dance and not breath.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

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

— Erol Ozan

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

— Amy Smart

“Caution not spirit, let it roam wild; for in that natural state dance embraces divine frequency.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

Before founding Ballet Beautiful, I was a ballerina with the New York City Ballet.

— Mary Helen Bowers

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

— Toni Bentley

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

— Maris Liepa

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

— Kate Moss

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

— Natalia Makarova

“Limit not to only five, when the divine gifts the supreme sixth; the sense of dance”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

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

— Cris Carter

I never dreamt of becoming a ballerina. I was just curious about it, it was something to explore.

— Sylvie Guillem