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 Copy Share Image
“As the last curtain falls on a spent year, a new year pirouettes to center stage with the elegance and charm of… — Peggy Toney Horton Copy Share Image
“O wayfarer! Yearn finds quench, not in meadows, seashores or altitude of mountain peaks; but when being and dance are one.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
At school I had a really hard time being a guitar player. It’s like being a male ballerina in a way. It’s… — Orianthi Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a ballerina so badly. You can be seen and take over the spotlight without speaking. I had a… — April Bowlby Copy Share Image
I'm still trying to change the way people see black dancers that we can become delicate dancers, that we can be a… — Michaela DePrince Copy Share Image
I have too much respect for ballet to dare practice it. I did ask ballerina Megan LeCrone to teach me jetés. She… — Elad Lassry Copy Share Image
With 'Black Swan,' the ballerina saga flips its tiara and goes on a hallucinatory bender, a scary acid trip where transfiguration and… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
I was trained by Method acting teachers and we were taught that aside from whatever gift you may or may not have… — Ellen Barkin Copy Share Image
Few things are more beautiful to me than a bunch of thuggish, heavily tattooed line cooks moving around each other like ballerinas… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
In theatre or in ballet, the ballerina always passes on what they know. It's a hands-on craft. You can't really learn the… — Ann Reinking Copy Share Image
I have a sister who is a dancer and dance teacher. We grew up dancing together. I wanted to become a ballerina… — Mary Elizabeth Winstead Copy Share Image
The 'feminine' woman is forever static and childlike. She is like the ballerina in an old-fashioned music box, her unchanging features tiny… — Susan Faludi Copy Share Image
I know there are a lot of eyes on me now from young girls, and it makes me so proud. The only… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
Fonteyn was our first proper British ballerina, and from the moment I started dancing, her image engulfed me. In my first year… — Darcey Bussell Copy Share Image
“Audience of angels descend in the ambiance reciting praises in your glory, when you wear your dance shoes, when you arrive at… — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
If you're wearing ballerina flats during the day, throw on a pair of strappy sandals with a heel on them and some… — Peter Som Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a ballerina as a child - I had a tutu, and I used to stage my own ballets… — Lucy Hawking Copy Share Image
The prima ballerinas who taught me were far more scary than Gordon Ramsay. They'd scream at me and pull my legs and… — Jennifer Ellison Copy Share Image
When I was young I was soft spoken and a little bit timid and passive. My dream then was to be a… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
Did I ever tell you my pet peeve?' No,' I said. People who dress up their pets to look like Little Lord… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
To become a classical ballerina, you have to move to New York when you're 12 or 11 and that becomes your life.… — Jennifer Garner Copy Share Image
In what grade do we stop believing in ourselves? I asked. In what grade do we stop believing, period? I mean, SOMEONE… — Chris Colfer Copy Share Image
When I was little, I wanted to be a civil engineer. Not a ballerina, not a doctor, a civil engineer. I was… — Bitsie Tulloch Copy Share Image
It's very easy to become selfish and narrow-minded and see ballet as the only thing in life, but there's lots more. — Darcey Bussell Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I think it was important that I learned to love to dance eventually for its own sake, as opposed to wanting to… — Suzanne Farrell Copy Share Image
Even at 13, I believed that the audience should think that the hardest combination of steps was effortless, and a ballerina's personal… — Michaela DePrince Copy Share Image
I really enjoyed watching a ballerina named Denise Dabrowski who used to dance at California Ballet. She was a beautiful ballerina and… — Justin Peck Copy Share Image
I don't want to be anything else other than a ballerina. I love what I do outside of my work, but at… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
When I grow up I am going to be a ballerina. I will be in Giselle. It will be so much fun… — Karen Kain Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“O wayfarer! Yearn finds quench, not in meadows, seashores or altitude of mountain peaks; but when being becomes dance.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
A ballerina's life can be glorious. But it does not get any easier. I don't think anyone must ever think about it… — Alicia Markova Copy Share Image
It's surprising to a lot of people because ballerinas look so long, but it's more of a proportion thing. Their legs are… — Mary Elizabeth Winstead Copy Share Image
“Dance resides within us all. Some find it when joy conquers sorrow, others express it through celebration of movements; and then there… — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
How awfully convenient for you, regardless. And for him. He won't have to worry about you spilling his secrets." "Yeah," Jace said.… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
When I started, there was a very strong image of what the ballerina was supposed to be in her tights and her… — Darcey Bussell Copy Share Image
Above all, I wanted to be appreciated as a prima ballerina who happened to be a Native American, never as someone who… — Maria Tallchief Copy Share Image
I was very sensitive. I liked everything that touched fantasy and beauty. I dreamed of being a ballerina, but Mother said I… — Jacqueline de Ribes Copy Share Image
