American Quote by Wendy Whelan

I grew up wanting to be a ballet dancer.

— Hilary Farr

I wanted to be a male ballet dancer.

— Scott Thompson

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

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 dreamt of becoming a ballet dancer. I studied with the Royal Academy of London for 11 years, and that did not pan out,…

— Diane Kruger

I wanted to be a dancer from when I was about nine or something like that and started ballet. I used to really like…

— Mia Wasikowska

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

— Stella Soleil

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

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

— Mary Elizabeth Winstead

I wanted to be a ballet teacher.

— Jaclyn Smith

I think American Ballet Theatre is setting that standard now for classical ballet, that you can dream big, and it doesn't matter what you…

— Misty Copeland