Ballerina Quotes

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

  Rita Rudner

  Dance, Dancing, Quitting

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• Looking back at it now, I really feel like it was a gift because I don’t know if I have the talent to become a prima ballerina. It’s such a hard job to have. I don’t have any regrets about it.

  Diane Kruger

  Jobs, Regret, Talent

  "Diane Kruger for “Troy”". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.darkhorizons.com. May 6, 2004.

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

  Beverly Cleary

  Mind, Changed, Wanted

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• 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.

  Karen Kain

  Growing Up, Fun, Grows

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

  Dakota Fanning

  Two, Actresses, Wanted

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• 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 wanted to be good in my company in Charleston and I wanted it to always be part of my life.

  Jennifer Garner

  New York, Moving, Be Good

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

  Ninette de Valois

  Sopranos

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• Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

  John Dryden

  Dance, Ballet Class, Feet

  John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.1562, Delphi Classics

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• 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.

  Elle Fanning

  Dream, Acting, World

  "Elle Fanning on Boys, Marilyn Monroe, and her New Film 'Ginger & Rosa'". Interview with Ashley Terrill, www.elle.com. March 15, 2013.

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

  Chita Rivera

  Dance, Mother, President

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• Dancing is like dreaming with your feet!

  Constanze Mozart

  Dance, Dream, Ballet Class

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• Never be afraid to be a poppy in a field of daffodils.

  Michaela DePrince

  Flower, Differences, Fields

  "Four Young Ballerinas Celebrate Dancers Of Color Who Inspire Them" by Katherine Brooks, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 12, 2017.

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• God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.

  Anna Pavlova

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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  Wouldn't it be great if we all grew up to be what we wanted to be? The world would be full of nurses, firemen, and ballerinas.

  Lily Tomlin

  Nurse, Would Be, World

  "Saturday Night Live", November 25, 1975.

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• You never advance without losing something en passant... you lose it because you're paying so much attention to the new thing.

  Ninette de Valois

  Dance, Ballet, Progress

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• Dance is not an exercise. Dance is an art.

  Alicia Alonso

  Dance, Art, Exercise

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• As time goes on, all schools only get left alive if they have found something special themselves.

  Ninette de Valois

  Art, School, Ballet

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• Having limits to push against is how you find out what you can do.

  Sylvie Guillem

  Inspirational, Perseverance, Women

  "Fear is the drug" by Judith Mackrell, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2006.

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

  Ninette de Valois

  Education, Creating, Ballet

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• I don't believe in "average people" doing anything [about the climate]. People outght to support mitigation and adaptation within their own line of work, no matter how un-average that is.  I mean: if you're a butcher, baker, ballerina, banker, or a plumber, envision yourself as the post-fossil-fuel version of yourself, and get right after it

  Bruce Bruce

  Believe, Mean, Average

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• A ballerina's life can be glorious. But it does not get any easier. I don't think anyone must ever think about it getting easier.

  Alicia Markova

  Thinking, Doe, Easier

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• A real ballerina must fill her space with her own personality.

  Natalia Makarova

  Real, Space, Personality

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• It's very easy to become selfish and narrow-minded and see ballet as the only thing in life, but there's lots more.

  Darcey Bussell

  Life, Dance, Selfish

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• Some people even think that I'm still just not right for it [ballet]. And I think it's shocking because they hear those words from critics saying I'm too bulky, I'm too busty. And then they meet me in person and they're like, you look like a ballerina. And I think it's just something maybe that I will never escape from, those people who are narrow-minded. But my mission, my voice, my story, my message, is not for them. And I think it's more important to think of the people that I am influencing and helping to see a broader picture of what beauty is.

  Misty Copeland

  Thinking, Voice, People

  Source: www.npr.org

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• In 22 years of acting, I've only done two movies where I, personally, kill people. The Coens called me the Spanish Ballerina on (the No Country For Old Men) set, because every time I had the gun, when they called cut, I'd give it back and say, 'Take this s**t out of my hands!' There were laughing, like they couldn't believe I was supposed to be the villain.

  Javier Bardem

  Country, Believe, Cutting

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