Ballerina Quotes

“Don't breathe to survive; dance and feel alive.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

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

— Ree Drummond

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

— Beverly Cleary

“Dance is the ritual of immortality.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

My grandma was a ballerina.

— Kiersey Clemons

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

— Nichele Reese

Dance is not an exercise. Dance is an art.

— Alicia Alonso

“Dance is the timeless interpretation of life.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

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

— Haley Webb

Besides a princess and a ballerina and a firefighter and a vet, I think I wanted to be an artist.

— Alison Sudol

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

— Rita Rudner

I wasn't a crazy kid. I never went out, never went to football games. I was a trained ballerina.

— Mayte Garcia

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

— Stella Soleil

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

— Caitlin Moran

And then you have the classical ballerinas, they're like sopranos. Applied to the dance.

— Ninette de Valois

I'm not super confident in my body, but I am a ballerina, so of course, we tend to have a better figure.

— Michaela DePrince

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

“O wayfarer! Yearn finds quench, not in meadows, seashores or altitude of mountain peaks; but when being becomes dance.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

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

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

When I started, there was a very strong image of what the ballerina was supposed to be in her tights and her…

— Darcey Bussell

“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

If my mother was taking pictures, I never wanted her to take the camera off me, ever. When I look at my…

— Kiara Advani

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

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

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

I know there are a lot of eyes on me now from young girls, and it makes me so proud. The only…

— Misty Copeland

Fonteyn was our first proper British ballerina, and from the moment I started dancing, her image engulfed me. In my first year…

— Darcey Bussell

“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

The first time the Kirov ballet was seen in America was on Sept. 11, 1961. The ballet was 'Swan Lake.' The ballerina…

— Robert Gottlieb

[Princess Margaret] was loud, an extrovert, an exhibitionist, loved fashion, loved color, loved music, loved drama, loved the theater, wanted to be…

— Vanessa Kirby

I actually came to New York when I was 12 and did ballet school for a little while. I was being groomed…

— Mary Elizabeth Winstead

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 just stay healthy all year round. I try to feel good in my skin. For me, I have trained in ballet…

— Angelina Jolie

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

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

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

— Wendy Whelan

“Stepping lightly, just like a ballerina.”

— Van Morrison