When Disney was creating Elsa, they based a lot of her movements on that of a ballerina, which was interesting for me to find out because I actually did ballet years ago. That definitely informed some of the ways I made her walk and move.

Georgina Haig

I push myself hard. I don't like pain, exactly, but as a ballerina, I lived in constant pain. At ballet school in Stockholm, I remember we had a locker where if someone had been to the doctor and gotten painkillers, we divided them among us. In a sense, we were all addicted.

Alicia Vikander

Where Were Us

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

Amy Smart

Years Year Wing

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.

Andra Day

Age Young You

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.

Andreja Pejic

Mom Yin Ways

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

Fear You Without

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

Aretha Franklin

Tin T Rim

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

Beverly Cleary

Change Wanted Want

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

Wanted Want Ted

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

Carine Roitfeld

Love Would Thing

People say that wrestling is not ballet. But as a former ballerina, I'd like to see some of these men put on a pair of tights and go do what a dancer does. Because it's a lot! It's definitely difficult.

Carmella

Men Wrestling Use

I used to want to be a war photographer, and I used to want to be a ballerina and a comedian. I used to want to be a writer. I invalidated myself; it's a mistake for me.

Cat Power

War Writer Write

I loved shoes. I had my little ballerina flats, and my mom never wore heels. But when I was about three or four, she got a job where she had to wear the tiniest heels. I was obsessed.

Chloe Gosselin

Mom Love Wore

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

Art Your You

I've always thought of modeling as a performance, so I don't mind kind of pretending. I kind of pretend in a lot of my poses that I am a ballerina or a hip-hop dancer or a grunge performer.

Coco Rocha

Ways Way UN

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

Cris Carter

Love Yin Way

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

Dakota Fanning

Ways Way Wanted

I last went to a gym when I was a teenager to make sure I could lift ballerinas.

Damian Woetzel

Teen Age Teenager

I know some people aspire to a ballerina's body, but I looked forward to feeling more feminine.

Darcey Bussell

War T Some People

Fonteyn was our first proper British ballerina, and from the moment I started dancing, her image engulfed me. In my first year at the Royal Ballet School, Margot's statue was outside my dormitory. Like generations of budding ballet dancers before me, I used to touch her middle finger for luck.

Darcey Bussell

Mom Men Art

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

Darcey Bussell

Life You Very

When I started, there was a very strong image of what the ballerina was supposed to be in her tights and her costume, and then I started doing photo shoots in bomber boots, and it wasn't seen as the done thing.

Darcey Bussell

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

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

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 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

My parents are from Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and I feel like it's an old Southern thing where people say that, as a kid, you can be an astronaut or a ballerina or a singer, but as a grown person, you need to go and get a job.

Elvis Mitchell

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

Erin O'Connor

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

Francesca Hayward

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

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

When Disney was creating Elsa, they based a lot of her movements on that of a ballerina, which was interesting for me to find out because I actually did ballet years ago. That definitely informed some of the ways I made her walk and move.

Georgina Haig

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

Haley Webb

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

Heather Watts

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

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 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'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

The prima ballerinas who taught me were far more scary than Gordon Ramsay. They'd scream at me and pull my legs and arms, so after them Gordon was a piece of cake.

Jennifer Ellison

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 thought that the 40s was a tough decade, because it's when you finally figure out that you're not immortal, when you really start seeing that certain options are closed to you forever: You're not going to be a brain surgeon; you're not going to be a ballerina.

Judith Viorst

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

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

Judy Greer

I was a professional ballerina. After becoming an actress, I did a lot of theater, which included musical theater. The first musical play I did was Murray Schisgal's 'The Pushcart Peddlers.'

Juliet Landau

I really enjoyed watching a ballerina named Denise Dabrowski who used to dance at California Ballet. She was a beautiful ballerina and role model for a lot of young dancers.

Justin Peck

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

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

Kate Moss

If my mother was taking pictures, I never wanted her to take the camera off me, ever. When I look at my videos from when I was even just two, I would be playing ballerina.

Kiara Advani

My grandma was a ballerina.

Kiersey Clemons

From the age of three to 15, I wanted to be a ballerina and trained really, really hard. Then I had that classic movie story moment, where I had an injury and had to give up my dream.

Kiesza

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

Koren Zailckas