Ballerina Quotes · Page 3

The first movement ballerina should be a paradigm of strength and authority.

— Robert Gottlieb

I stopped dancing when I was 17, but like all little girls I wanted to be a ballerina.

— Angela Rippon

Hey, I've changed my mind. I want to be a ballerina. -LORELAI

— Gilmore Girls

“Sometimes in life confusion tends to arise and only dialogue of dance seems to make sense.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

I've been a ballerina since I was two, but I've always wanted to be an actress.

— Dakota Fanning

The force for change I represent is of course from being a mixed-race ballerina.

— Francesca Hayward

“If spirit is the seed, dance is the water of its evolution.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

As a child, I had been told that I was exactly what a ballerina should be.

— Misty Copeland

Pointe shoes are torture devices. I mean, ballerinas get used to it, but it was definitely a new experience for me. They…

— Natalie Portman

After tiny has tried ballerina pose, swing-batter-batter pose, pump-up-the-jam pose, and top-of-the-mountain-sound-of-music pose in the reflection of the bean, he walks us…

— David Levithan

It took me a long time to understand that there is no amount of wanting and no amount of desire and no…

— Arlene Phillips

I was a professional ballerina. After becoming an actress, I did a lot of theater, which included musical theater. The first musical…

— Juliet Landau

What really matters is that 'Black Swan' deploys and exaggerates all the cliches of earlier ballet movies, especially 'The Red Shoes,' another…

— Robert Gottlieb

Wouldn't it be great if we all grew up to be what we wanted to be? The world would be full of…

— Lily Tomlin

I wanted to be a skinny little ballerina but I was a voluptuous little Italian girl whose dad had meatballs on the…

— Lady Gaga

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

If the height of the heel is the same as the length of your foot, it starts to look wrong. And if…

— Christian Louboutin

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

Few things are more beautiful to me than a bunch of thuggish, heavily tattooed line cooks moving around each other like ballerinas…

— Anthony Bourdain

I was trained by Method acting teachers and we were taught that aside from whatever gift you may or may not have…

— Ellen Barkin

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

I was born into a family of gospel singers. My early ambitions were many. I was going to be a ballerina. I…

— Dionne Warwick

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

— Vanessa Kirby

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

— Robert Gottlieb

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

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

— Ninette de Valois

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

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

— Haley Webb

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

— Mayte Garcia

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

— Rita Rudner

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

— Alison Sudol

I think it's never too late to start anything, except maybe being a ballerina.

— Wendy Liebman

“He looked like a hallucinating ballerina in boxer shorts, but the blemmyae politely got out of his way.”

— Rick Riordan

I wanted to be ballerina, be in a band, then in drama.

— Madchen Amick

“Dance is that delicacy of life radiating every particle of our existence with happiness.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

You cannot create genius. All you can do is nurture it.

— Ninette de Valois

“Life is an affair of mystery; shared with companions of music, dance and poetry.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

“DANCE – Defeat All Negativity (via) Creative Expression.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

Mother loved dance so much that she thought (ballerina) Margot Fonteyn should be the president.

— Chita Rivera