Ballerina Quotes

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

With 'Black Swan,' the ballerina saga flips its tiara and goes on a hallucinatory bender, a scary acid trip where transfiguration and disfiguration meet.

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.

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

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

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

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.

When I was growing up, I dreamed about becoming a cowgirl, a detective, a spy, a great actress, or a ballerina. Not a dentist, like my father, or a homemaker, like my mother - and certainly not a writer, although I always loved to read.

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.