Ballerina Quotes

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

— Wendy Whelan

“Stepping lightly, just like a ballerina.”

— Van Morrison

Dance is not an exercise. Dance is an art.

— Alicia Alonso

“Dance is the timeless interpretation of life.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

“Nobody approves of the ballerina and the poor boy.”

— Nichele Reese

“Dance is the ritual of immortality.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

My grandma was a ballerina.

— Kiersey Clemons

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

— Beverly Cleary

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

— Shah Asad Rizvi

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

— Carine Roitfeld

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

— Peyton Royce

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

— Shah Asad Rizvi

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

— Margaret Atwood

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

— Shah Asad Rizvi

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

— 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

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 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

“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

My mom always wanted me be a ballerina, and I was just adamant that I wanted to be a track star. I…

— Emayatzy E. Corinealdi

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

— Elton John

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

— Kató Lomb

I remember watching Swan Lake and everybody looking exactly the same, but being able to relate because they were the only company…

— Joan Chen

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

— Elizabeth Crook

In 22 years of acting, I've only done two movies where I, personally, kill people. The Coens called me the Spanish Ballerina…

— Javier Bardem

When I was in school, I dreamed about becoming a psychiatrist or a ballerina. Like most girls I would dream about being…

— Sharon Tate

My first breath was just...it just seemed impossible that you could actually breathe underwater. I knew in my mind it was possible,…

— Sylvia Earle

My mom is actually a former prima ballerina, and all the women in my family are associated either with dance or choreography…

— Ksenia Solo

I haven’t come from the typical path or background of someone who would make it to this level as a ballerina. When…

— Misty Copeland

When I was growing up, I dreamed about becoming a cowgirl, a detective, a spy, a great actress, or a ballerina. Not…

— Judy Blume

Two sons, they'll both be presidents after they win their Nobel Prizes. And the daughters, they'll be prima ballerinas before they become…

— Ron Suskind

Acting is different from dance. The black-and-whiteness of dancing is mostly about the technical form - like, this is how people have…

— Elle Fanning

Some people even think that I'm still just not right for it [ballet]. And I think it's shocking because they hear those…

— Misty Copeland

I used to want to be a war photographer, and I used to want to be a ballerina and a comedian. I…

— Cat Power

It should also be born in mind that the research on 'movement' and the dynamic outlook on the world, which were the…

— Gino Severini

I love nutcrackers, as I was a ballerina growing up.

— Ree Drummond

“Dance, ballerina, dance And do your pirouette in rhythm with your achin' heart.”

— Nat Cole King

“If movements were a spark every dancer would desire to light up in flames.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi