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I've been a ballerina since I was two, but I've always wanted to be an actress. -- Dakota Fanning
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. -- Lady Gaga
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
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
I wonder what it would be like if we all became what we wanted to be when we grew up? I mean, imagine a world filled with nothing but firemen, cowboys, nurses and ballerinas. -- Lily Tomlin
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
I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind. -- Beverly Cleary
A real ballerina must fill her space with her own personality. -- Natalia Makarova
And then you have the classical ballerinas, they're like sopranos. Applied to the dance. -- Ninette de Valois
Mother loved dance so much that she thought (ballerina) Margot Fonteyn should be the president. -- Chita Rivera
I was a ballerina. I had to quit after I injured a groin muscle. It wasn't mine... -- Rita Rudner
I have been a ballerina, a cheerleader and a sorority girl. I was the girliest girl alive. -- Koren Zailckas
I feel such a difference between a philologist/linguist and a linguaphile as, say, a choreographer and a ballerina. -- Kató Lomb
A ballerina takes steps given to her and makes them her own. Each individual brings something different to the same role, -- Maria Tallchief
I think it was important that I learned to love to dance eventually for its own sake, as opposed to wanting to be a ballerina. -- Suzanne Farrell
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
Blue jean baby, LA lady, seamstress for the band. Pretty eyed, pirate smile, you'll marry a music man. Ballerina, you must have seen her dancing in the sand. -- Elton John
After tiny has tried ballerina pose, swing-batter-batter pose, pump-up-the-jam pose, and top-of-the-mountain-sound-of-music pose in the reflection of the bean, he walks us to a bench overlooking lake shore drive. -- David Levithan
Dance in the most perishable of the arts. Ballets are forgotten, ballerinas retire, choreographers die--and what remains of that glorious production which so excited us a decade ago, a year ago, or even last night? -- Jack Anderson
My body is very different from most of the dancers I dance with. My hair is different than most I dance with. But I didn't let that stop me. Black girls rock and can be ballerinas. -- Misty Copeland
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
The 'feminine' woman is forever static and childlike. She is like the ballerina in an old-fashioned music box, her unchanging features tiny and girlish, her voice tinkly, her body stuck on a pin, rotating in a spiral that will never grow. -- Susan Faludi
Did I ever tell you my pet peeve?' No,' I said. People who dress up their pets to look like Little Lord Fauntleroys or cowboys, clowns, ballerinas. As if it's not enough just to be a dog or cat or turtle. -- Jerry Spinelli
Few things are more beautiful to me than a bunch of thuggish, heavily tattooed line cooks moving around each other like ballerinas on a busy Saturday night. Seeing two guys who'd just as soon cut each other's throats in their off hours moving in unison with grace and ease can be as uplifting as any chemical stimulant or organized religion. -- Anthony Bourdain
The first movement ballerina should be a paradigm of strength and authority. -- Robert Gottlieb
If I could choose something besides fashion, I would love to be a ballerina. -- Carine Roitfeld
I will never give up my dream of being a prima ballerina and backup dancer for Justin Timberlake! -- Haley Webb
You've got to break through this idea of being light as a ballerina. The heavier you'll feel, the lighter you'll look. -- Gelsey Kirkland
I was not awesome at dancing. For a ballerina, I probably started too late. Plus I enjoyed entertaining people too much. -- Judy Greer
I danced with the London Festival at Covent Garden. I'm a ballerina by trade; I'm a ballerina who sings by the way. -- Jane Seymour
I always wanted to perform in some capacity since I was a kid - I was a ballerina, then a singer before acting. -- Mary Elizabeth Winstead
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. -- Bitsie Tulloch
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. -- Jenna Jameson
With 'Black Swan,' the ballerina saga flips its tiara and goes on a hallucinatory bender, a scary acid trip where transfiguration and disfiguration meet. -- James Wolcott
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. -- Jacqueline de Ribes
What really matters is that 'Black Swan' deploys and exaggerates all the cliches of earlier ballet movies, especially 'The Red Shoes,' another tale of a ballerina driven mad and suicidal. -- Robert Gottlieb
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. -- Judy Blume
The first time the Kirov ballet was seen in America was on Sept. 11, 1961. The ballet was 'Swan Lake.' The ballerina was Inna Zubkovskaya. The place was the old Met, on what must have been one of the hottest nights of the year, and there was no air-conditioning. -- Robert Gottlieb
I was born into a family of gospel singers. My early ambitions were many. I was going to be a ballerina. I almost had that one come true until I tore a tendon, so I transferred from my toes to my throat and that's where the talent settled. -- Dionne Warwick
My mom is actually a former prima ballerina, and all the women in my family are associated either with dance or choreography or acting, so I'm very lucky in a way because I grew up in a family of artists. I've been dancing since I was a little kid. -- Ksenia Solo
I was trained by Method acting teachers and we were taught that aside from whatever gift you may or may not have or the level of that gift, that you were obliged to know how to build a table. It's a craft. It's like being a ballerina or a violinist. -- Ellen Barkin
If the height of the heel is the same as the length of your foot, it starts to look wrong. And if the heel is positioned badly on the sole, you get into ballerina territory, where the body is pushed into a very strange posture. You can exaggerate the arch only so much. -- Christian Louboutin
I was a ballerina for 10 years growing up, but I stopped. -- Amy Smart
I wanted to be a ballerina. I studied ballet for 19 years. -- Stella Soleil
I would rather dance as a ballerina, though faultily, than as a flawless clown. -- Margaret Atwood
As a former ballerina, I can't put down Maggie Shipstead's new book, Astonish Me. -- Caitlin Moran
Youâ??re just jealous of me because Iâ??m a tap-dancing ballerina fairy princess veterinarian! -- Daniel Handler
When one lifts a ballerina, it is not her weight but her nature that causes the problem. -- Maris Liepa
A toe shoe is as eccentric as the ballerina who wears it: their marriage is a commitment. -- Toni Bentley
I feel such a difference between a philologist/linguist and a linguaphile as, say, a choreographer and a ballerina. -- Kató Lomb
I'm still trying to change the way people see black dancers that we can become delicate dancers, that we can be a ballerina, -- Michaela DePrince
I have no interest in being a trained ballerina. People should dance how they want to dance. I want to be the funky chicken. -- Scott McClanahan
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
At school I had a really hard time being a guitar player. Itâ??s like being a male ballerina in a way. Itâ??s not the norm. -- Orianthi
Above all, I wanted to be appreciated as a prima ballerina who happened to be a Native American, never as someone who was an American Indian ballerina, -- Maria Tallchief
My mom always wanted me be a ballerina, and I was just adamant that I wanted to be a track star. I wanted nothing to do with ballet. -- Emayatzy E. Corinealdi
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. -- April Bowlby
When I was young I was soft spoken and a little bit timid and passive. My dream then was to be a ballerina or a figure skater - something very delicate. -- Evangeline Lilly
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. -- Lucy Hawking
My grandma was actually a pretty well-known opera singer in Cuba, and then my mom was a ballerina. Two of my three sisters are dancers, so we grew up in the arts. -- Frankie J. Alvarez
I do think Under Armour is setting a new example for what a ballerina is, and that you can be feminine and an athlete and represent what a woman is at the same time. -- Misty Copeland
I was born to be a ballerina - my physique, my spirit, my feeling for music. What I am can only be expressed in dance. I am an erotic woman and that's what dance is. -- Natalia Makarova
How awfully convenient for you, regardless. And for him. He won't have to worry about you spilling his secrets." "Yeah," Jace said. "He's terrified I'll tell everyone that he's always wanted to be a ballerina. -- Cassandra Clare
When I was in school, I dreamed about becoming a psychiatrist or a ballerina. Like most girls I would dream about being a movie star too. But those dreams are the impossible kind, the kind you don't really set your heart on. -- Sharon Tate

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