Ballerina Quote by Mary Elizabeth Winstead

To become a classical ballerina, you have to move to New York when you're 12 or 11 and that becomes your life. I just…

— Jennifer Garner

Growing up in Niagara Falls, Ontario, I took classes as a young girl and became very serious about ballet, and also performed with a…

— Cathy Marie Buchanan

Before founding Ballet Beautiful, I was a ballerina with the New York City Ballet.

— Mary Helen Bowers

I grew up wanting to be a ballet dancer.

— Hilary Farr

When I was 16, I moved to Torrance, California to train at a more advanced studio, and by 19, I joined the American Ballet…

— Misty Copeland

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

— Stella Soleil

When I first moved to New York I wanted to be a dancer, I danced professionally for years, living a hand-to-mouth existence.

— Madonna Ciccone

I've always wanted to be a professional dancer, I'd always wanted to be a ballerina. I trained for 13 years but it never came…

— Jenna Jameson

I wanted to be a ballerina as a child - I had a tutu, and I used to stage my own ballets in our…

— Lucy Hawking

When I was 8, I began to study ballet. In seventh grade, my mother took me into New York to study at the School…

— Dianne Wiest

I came to New York to study ballet and English.

— Penelope Cruz

I did do ballet seriously and considered being professional and all of that, and I went to Tisch and got a dance degree.

— Monica Barbaro