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

- Amy Smart

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

- Beverly Cleary

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

- Dakota Fanning

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

- Haley Webb

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

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

- Koren Zailckas

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

As a child, I had been told that I was exactly what a ballerina should be.

- Misty Copeland

Perseverance has always just been something that was in me. And it was a tool that came in very handy as a ballerina.

- Misty Copeland