Elle Macpherson Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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 liked the structure of ballet.

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

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.

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

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

What 'War and Peace' is to the novel and 'Hamlet' is to the theater, Swan Lake' is to ballet - that is, the name which to many people stands for and sums up an art form.

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.

I very much like dance and dancers.

I thought 'Out of Africa' would be a beautiful ballet.

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.

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

Growing up as a dancer, the stage is really where I love to be performance wise.

Growing up, my sisters were both into dancing, so I went to a lot of dance recitals, mostly because there were always pretty girls in leotards.

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

'Neverwhere,' by Benjamin Millepied, is set to his favorite composer, Nico Muhly.