Alicia Vikander Quotes

Dancing in high heels is kind of tough. I learn the dances without the heels, and then we add them. We just practice, and I get used to it. My feet hurt really badly at the end of the shows, but it's fun. While it's happening it's fun. I feel tall.

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

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

I danced with the London Festival at Covent Garden. I'm a ballerina by trade; I'm a ballerina who sings by the way.

A dancer's life is all about repetition.

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.

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

There has never been a great athlete who died not knowing what pain is.

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

I wanted so badly to study ballet, but it was really all about wearing the tutu.

I've got no plans to be a ballet dancer at the moment.

My grandma was a ballerina.

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 was a ballerina, and everything I did in dance was delicate, pretty.

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

When you're wearing pointe shoes, honestly, they hurt - a lot - every day.

The dream was to be a prima ballerina.

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

I never dreamt of becoming a ballerina. I was just curious about it, it was something to explore.

When an apprentice gets hurt, or complains of being tired, the workmen and peasants have this fine expression: "It is the trade entering his body." Each time that we have some pain to go through, we can say to ourselves quite truly that it is the universe, the order and beauty of the world, and the obedience of God that are entering our body.

Pointe shoes are torture devices. I mean, ballerinas get used to it, but it was definitely a new experience for me. They feel medieval. I was very happy to stop wearing them.

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

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

I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner.

I went to ballet school for nine years, and there was an agent for the whole school who happened to be there visiting one of the performances. She suggested an audition.