Ballerina Quotes - Page 3

• I have too much respect for ballet to dare practice it. I did ask ballerina Megan LeCrone to teach me jetés. She said that was impossible but did observe that I have great feet.

  Elad Lassry

  Ballet, Impossible, Dare

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

  Athlete, Thinking, Example

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I just stay healthy all year round. I try to feel good in my skin. For me, I have trained in ballet my whole life so my body really feels best when I feel strong and tight and toned, and I think that comes from years and years of constant training as a ballerina. Leading up to the show, getting out there in your underwear, you just want to feel your best mainly in your head than more anything else. Obviously you want to feel good physically too, so it's more just in your head, pushing yourself, approaching this challenge and taking the opportunity to push yourself a little further.

  Angelina Jolie

  Strong, Opportunity, Thinking

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• Maybe I'm seeing myself in a different way than the people in the audience see me, 'cause to me, I think I look like a ballerina and I feel like a ballerina. But maybe I'm not seeing what other people are seeing.

  Misty Copeland

  Thinking, People, Way

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• I was a ballerina for a good 12 years. When I was 15 I had to stop. It wasn't a choice, it was an injury that prevented me from going forward in ballet unfortunately. Well, fortunately because I wouldn't be doing what I am doing now if that had not happened.

  Kiesza

  Years, Choices, Ballet

  Source: chicago.gopride.com

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• I think every woman in the world has to have a short black dress. That's what I always wear if I'm really rushing and I don't want to think. If you want to wear it during the day you can wear ballerina flats or sandals. And for the night you just put on some heels and and a necklace. That's kind of the statement dress of Chanel as well. But Chanel is put on a necklace and a little hat and that would be perfect for Chanel.

  Alessandra Mastronardi

  Night, Thinking, Perfect

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Acting is different from dance. The black-and-whiteness of dancing is mostly about the technical form - like, this is how people have been doing it for millions of years. You can't let down those ballerinas who died a long time ago. My teacher will say, "This person would be ashamed!" And it's like, oh God. But with acting, it's different because people like something fresh. You can mix it up and create your own thing and it's not necessarily wrong.

  Elle Fanning

  Teacher, Long, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I know there are a lot of eyes on me now from young girls, and it makes me so proud. The only Black woman examples aren't Rihanna and Beyoncé. It makes me proud that I am a classical ballerina and they can look at me and see another way to succeed. That is setting a new standard.

  Misty Copeland

  Girl, Eye, Black

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• How difficult it is to exist, that we are athlete and artist. We have injuries. People don't see the hard side of being a ballerina. They just see this beautiful and effortless thing, and they assume it's easy and cute. I hate when people say it's cute!

  Misty Copeland

  Cute, Beautiful, Hate

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• Around the corner [ of the Carnegie Delicatessen] is the Russian Tea Room, which is now out of business. Which is awful. I remember going in there and seeing the ballerinas trotting in there like they were prize horses, with their hair, their sunglasses. Really amazing. They were all White Russians. This is where [Leon] Theremin met a lot of people, and where the KGB eventually picked him up.

  Paul Laffoley

  Horse, Kgb, White

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

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• When I was six I wanted to be a ballerina. By the time I was eight I was fairly sure this plan wasn't panning out. I began aspiring to be an "Aquamaid" at a resort called "Aquarena Springs" in my hometown of San Marcos: Aquamaids got to wear mermaid tails and feed milk bottles underwater to Ralph the Swimming Pig for an audience submerged in a "submarine".

  Elizabeth Crook

  Spring, Swimming, Eight

  Source: www.elizabethcrookbooks.com

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• [Princess Margaret] was loud, an extrovert, an exhibitionist, loved fashion, loved color, loved music, loved drama, loved the theater, wanted to be a ballerina or actress, was always the little one putting on the school plays, and [princess] Elizabeth reluctantly did it and got stage fright.

  Vanessa Kirby

  Fashion, Drama, Princess

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• I actually came to New York when I was 12 and did ballet school for a little while. I was being groomed to be professional, and a lot of the professors and teachers there were drawn to me and thought that I could become a professional ballerina.

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Teacher, New York, School

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's surprising to a lot of people because ballerinas look so long, but it's more of a proportion thing. Their legs are long in proportion to their body but in reality they're very tiny.

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Reality, Long, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I have a sister who is a dancer and dance teacher. We grew up dancing together. I wanted to become a ballerina when I was a kid, so she and I were always at ballet conservatories and going to school with our hair in buns.

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Teacher, Kids, School

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

  Dream, Littles, Young

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• Contrary to vulgar legend the lives of great ballerinas are not entirely given up to a few minutes of graceful movement every night followed by champagne drunk out of their toeshoes till dawn, in the company of financiers ... no, most of their time is spent in filthy rehearsal halls, inhaling dust, or else in class, daily, year in year out, practicing, practicing even after they are already prima ballerinas.

  Gore Vidal

  Night, Dust, Years

  Gore Vidal (2011). “Death in the Fifth Position”, p.77, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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

  Judy Greer

  People, Dancing, Too Late

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• 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

  Mom, Stars, Track

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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

  Amy Smart

  Growing Up, Years, Growing

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• It should also be born in mind that the research on 'movement' and the dynamic outlook on the world, which were the basis of Futurist theory, in no way required one to paint nothing but speeding cars or ballerinas in action; for a person who is seated, or an inanimate object, though apparently static, could be considered dynamically and suggest dynamic forms. I may mention as an example the 'Portrait of Madame S.' (1912) and the 'Seated Woman' (1914).

  Gino Severini

  Car, Mind, Research

  "Letters of the great artists". Book by Richard Friedenthal, p. 248, 1963.

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• At school I had a really hard time being a guitar player. It’s like being a male ballerina in a way. It’s not the norm.

  Orianthi

  School, Hard Times, Player

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• I never knew I wanted to become a ballerina. I was discovered at the age of 13. I had a love for movement even though I had no exposure to dance other than what I saw in music videos, like hip-hop music videos. But I knew that I loved moving.

  Misty Copeland

  Moving, Hip Hop, Age

  Source: bknation.org

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• A lot of people think, "Oh I'm going to eat whatever I want and then go to the gym." And I've definitely been one of those people and it just doesn't give me the results that I need to have the physique of a ballerina.

  Misty Copeland

  Thinking, People, Giving

  Source: bknation.org

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• 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

  Dance, Erotic, Feelings

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