Cat Deeley Quotes

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

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

I am passionate about 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.

Ballet was just something that I always wanted to do.

The ballet world, it's a crazy world.

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

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

I went to an arts school as a kid. We had to take dance every other day, along with drama, music and visual arts. However, wearing black tights was something I dreaded... and still have nightmares about it to this day. I think I was a pretty good dancer. I suppose that training helped me land parts in musicals... or has just given me nightmares!

I grew up in the theater and danced ballet atrociously.

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.

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

I trained as a ballet dancer - well, I started when I was two and a half, and was serious about it from when I was eight until I was 18.

I think that taking ballet is one of the best things a girl can do. Period.

I've always loved dancing. As soon as there is good music, I've got to get up and dance. I was passionate about ballet as a little girl.

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.

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 danced six hours a day. My cross to bear is that my children have no interest in ballet. I think they could smell how much I wanted to put their hair in a bun.

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

My mum sent me to ballet from the age of five, not because I was that into it but because I had really knock knees.

My sister was in ballet growing up. I spent almost the entirety of 7 through 12 backstage at Lincoln Center, just running around, waiting for 'The Nutcracker' to end.

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

My favorite dancer is Sylvie Guillem.