Jennifer Garner Quotes

Ballet was just something that I always wanted to do.

And then you have the classical ballerinas, they're like sopranos. Applied to the dance.

I am passionate about ballet.

When I was younger, people would always say, 'Are you a ballet dancer?' I had that look - one of those skinny kids with my hair in a bun.

I had never a thought of training to be a ballerina. I was a normal child. I never dreamed of the tutu.

My favorite dancer is Sylvie Guillem.

Classical ballet will never die.

At 7, I was at the barre and dancing at folk festivals. Then I was a student with the ballet school of the Metropolitan Opera.

You cannot dance an arabesque in 'Swan Lake' and 'Nutcracker' the same way.

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

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.

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

Certainly, when you train as a classical dancer, you are very much influenced by 'Giselle.' You see it all the time; you start to learn the steps a little.

I deliberately made an effort not to become an expert on the ballet.

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.

While other girls swooned over The Beatles and the Rolling Stones, I worshipped Rudolf Nureyev and Isadora Duncan.

Technical things are getting more mechanical. Take 'Swan Lake,' the Black Swan pas de deux. Now, my goodness, they're turning not just 32 fouettes - but double or triple pirouettes.

Ballet is an incredibly difficult, beautiful art form that takes a lot of training, a lot of time, and a lot of hard work.

My grandma was a ballerina.

I'm always ballet ready.

The ballet world, it's a crazy world.

I took ballet when I was eight, like a lot of other people.

I grew up in the theater and danced ballet atrociously.

I wanted to be a male ballet dancer.

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.