This collection holds 103 ballerina quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Kiersey Clemons, Stephanie Corneliussen and Beverly Cleary.

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My grandma was a ballerina.

The dream was to be a prima ballerina.

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

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

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

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

I was a ballerina for 10 years growing up, but I stopped.

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

For a ballerina, the worst thing imaginable is big thighs.

I was a ballerina, and everything I did in dance was delicate, pretty.

Lynn Swann - I loved the way he was like a ballerina playing in the NFL.

I guess I could've been a prima ballerina. Or a nurse. Aretha Nightingale!

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

If I could choose something besides fashion, I would love to be a ballerina.

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

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

I would rather dance as a ballerina, though faultily, than as a flawless clown.

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

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

In my next life, I'm going to be a rock star. I was a ballerina in my last life.

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

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

Being a ballerina can be a very unnatural life, especially after you've had children.

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

I have been a ballerina, a cheerleader and a sorority girl. I was the girliest girl alive.

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

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

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

I never dreamt of becoming a ballerina. I was just curious about it, it was something to explore.

With her grace and grit, and the will to lead change, Misty Copeland is truly a ballerina for our time.

When I grow up I am going to be a ballerina. I will be in Giselle. It will be so much fun being a ballerina.

I always wanted to perform in some capacity since I was a kid - I was a ballerina, then a singer before acting.

As a child I wanted to be a ballerina, ice-cream van owner, wife of George Michael, a nun, and a music conductor.

I danced with the London Festival at Covent Garden. I'm a ballerina by trade; I'm a ballerina who sings by the way.

I feel such a difference between a philologist/linguist and a linguaphile as, say, a choreographer and a ballerina.

You've got to break through this idea of being light as a ballerina. The heavier you'll feel, the lighter you'll look.

I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.

When I was little, I wanted to be a civil engineer. Not a ballerina, not a doctor, a civil engineer. I was such a nerd.

I was not awesome at dancing. For a ballerina, I probably started too late. Plus I enjoyed entertaining people too much.

The ballerina style is here to stay. An added advantage is that the shoes blend well with Indian as well as Western attire.

I have no interest in being a trained ballerina. People should dance how they want to dance. I want to be the funky chicken.

I always dreamt of being a girl. One of my earliest memories is spinning around in my mom's skirt trying to look like a ballerina.

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 to be.

I wanted to be a skinny little ballerina but I was a voluptuous little Italian girl whose dad had meatballs on the table every night.

I would like to continue acting. But also - if this is a dream world where everything could become true - I'd want to be a ballerina.

I wanted to be a ballerina as a child - I had a tutu, and I used to stage my own ballets in our front room with my family as the audience.

I wanted to be a ballerina so badly. You can be seen and take over the spotlight without speaking. I had a fear of speaking in public back then.

At a young age, I wanted to be a prima ballerina and had these grand ideas that I would go study at Juilliard. It's something I laugh about now.

I was very sensitive. I liked everything that touched fantasy and beauty. I dreamed of being a ballerina, but Mother said I was too big, too long.

If you were ever a ballerina, you know the pain: just to be able to look like it's all so light, but when they take off their shoes, it's all bloody.

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