Natalie Portman Quotes

Apparently, I have good feet for ballet.

Ballet is such a disciplined craft and it has given me a good grounding.

I grew up studying ballet; I grew up honing my craft.

And what would be great numbers in a Broadway show are now on stage of the New York City Ballet.

I started taking ballet lessons when I was three and a half and I still take dance classes.

I am passionate about ballet.

The New York City Ballet is obviously speaking to a whole new generation and bringing it the same wonder and beauty that it brought previous generations.

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

I love ballet. Ballet is its own being. It has its own vocabulary. I feel as if I am in a different world when I am in the ballet studio.

I hated Matthew Bourne's 'Swan Lake' when it first turned up, and then when it was televised, and then when it returned.

The music industry is so easy compared to the ballet world.

I've studied dance since I was very young, and I continue to study ballet.

My grandma was a ballerina.

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.

I loved doing ballet. I trained for two years.

I was a dancer for many years. I was a premier dancer with 'Porgy and Bess,' the opera. And I taught dance some, in different places.

I love dance; that's a big part of my life - like, ballet specifically.

The dream was to be a prima ballerina.

Ballet can be grueling, for sure, but it gives you a certain discipline.

I don't want to be anything else other than a ballerina. I love what I do outside of my work, but at the end of the day, I have to sacrifice.

I wasn't a crazy kid. I never went out, never went to football games. I was a trained ballerina.

I am a dancer at heart.

I grew up going to see my sister dance, both at the ballet and later as a modern dancer, and have always been a big fan of the ballet. So I have had a long relationship with dance.

I used to be a dancer.

Before founding Ballet Beautiful, I was a ballerina with the New York City Ballet.