When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire. — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
Letting go of perfectionism, so ingrained in the nature of a ballet dancer, can be the most difficult thing. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Did any of you ever see Doctor Tetrazzini perform? I say perform advisedly because his operations were performances. He would start by… — William Burroughs Copy Share Image
My dream was to become a ballet dancer, but after a year in bed with rheumatic fever at 13, I had grown… — Carmen Dell'Orefice Copy Share Image
I am striving to reach the stars as a prima ballerina, but my most important reason for wanting this is because of… — Michaela DePrince Copy Share Image
If I'm at a party, I can put on some crazy dance moves. However, it's not synchronized, beautiful or choreographed like a… — Sierra McCormick Copy Share Image
I'd say the only time I ever get nervous is around great ballet dancers or people I really admire. — Dita Von Teese Copy Share Image
“You're a fridge with wings. We're freaking ballet dancers! -Fang” — James Patterson Copy Share Image
The average parent may, for example, plant an artist or fertilize a ballet dancer and end up with a certified public accountant.… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
I really wanted to make it as a ballet dancer to make my mom proud. But it didn't happen. — Tracy Anderson Copy Share Image
My background is somewhat unusual, as I trained to be a ballet dancer. I worked in the theatre for eight or nine… — William Kempe Copy Share Image
I was always nervous about coming back to Australia which was a complete hangover of the days when I left when ballet… — Robert Helpmann Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a ballet dancer. I was bad - I'm not very coordinated. But I always wished I could have… — Gia Coppola Copy Share Image
I began dancing when I was 7 years old. I was told that I had the perfect ballet dancers body and had… — Catherine Mary Stewart Copy Share Image
I grew up in San Francisco, and I trained as a ballet dancer until college. — Chloe Benjamin Copy Share Image
Ballet is a healthy world despite what people might think. There's a perception that ballet dancers are skinny and unhealthy, but that's… — Darcey Bussell Copy Share Image
I played soccer and baseball, and that's all. But what if I had been the best at like, ballet? And I didn't… — Spencer Pratt Copy Share Image
Melissa Barak, an ex-City Ballet dancer and sometime choreographer, has put together an unspeakably dopey and incompetent mess called 'Call Me Ben,'… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Tap was against everything I had learned to do. I was pulled up as a ballet dancer, and I wasn't used to… — Cyd Charisse Copy Share Image
My background is somewhat unusual, as I trained to be a ballet dancer. I worked in the theatre for eight or nine… — Will Kemp Copy Share Image
There are times when the simple dignity of movementcan fulfill the function of a volume of words. — Doris Humphrey Copy Share Image