Karen Kain Quotes

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

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

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

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.

The dream was to be a prima ballerina.

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

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

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.

Having done so many versions, I never felt like an artist in 'Swan Lake.'

I always wanted to act and sing, but my first love was ballet.

I didn't know if I could act, but I knew I could be a great ballet dancer, and Balanchine put out the carpet for me.

I remember my dreams when I was a junior soloist. 'Oh, I hope I don't end here,' I thought. 'I want to do the ballerina in 'Scotch Symphony.' I don't want to be the little Scotch girl.' And I actually went beyond my wildest dreams. I worked with Balanchine. I had ballets choreographed for me.

I have had so many great moments, but I would have to say that dancing the Swan in 'Swan Lake' was such a unique and passionate experience for me. It was such bloody hard work, even at that very early age, that I would not want to try to replicate it again now.

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

I love nutcrackers, as I was a ballerina growing up.

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.

My favorite dancer is Sylvie Guillem.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Instead of watching cartoons when I was little, I had Russian ballet videos from, like, the 1950s and 1940s.