Greta Gerwig Quotes

My goal has always been to be a principal dancer with ABT.

I'm a classical ballet dancer, and at the end of the day I want to be with American Ballet Theater, performing classical ballets.

When I was younger I wanted to be a gymnast, but they have to be quite short - I was tall.

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

Ballet is a finite art - your body won't let you do it forever, so I wanted to do it while I could.

If you've got hips, you can't be a gymnast or dancer. That ruled me out.

I actually was a ballet dancer - I studied ballet from three until 13 - but like very seriously, that's what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a contemporary ballet dancer. I wanted to go to Juilliard.

I look like a gorilla, just the way I'm built.

I wanted to be a ballet dancer. I was bad - I'm not very coordinated. But I always wished I could have been a dancer.

There is no rule that says a footballer needs to be 'this high' and 'this wide.'

It'd be very difficult to cast me as a ballet dancer. Everybody is, in some sense, controlled by their size and their gender. I'm not going to be allowed to play the part that Denzel Washington plays.

Choreographers use me as the old guy who still dances. Not that I put on white tights.

Let's be honest. Physicality is going to have a bearing on the parts you get. And if you think differently, you're in the wrong business.

If I had an extra 20 or 50 years physically, I could have been the dancer of my dreams. But I never became that dancer.

I was always active as a kid. I was a professional figure skater for many years and I was a dancer, so it's just been part of my life, and I think that creates a certain body type.

I don't have a brilliant body at all. I've got very broad shoulders. I've got very big feet. I've also got a very muscular neck.

I've had an extraordinary life as a dancer. You tour the world, you see all the great capitals of the world, the beautiful old opera houses all over Europe - you go everywhere. As a teenager, I would always say, 'I can't believe this is happening to little me,' because it was always a dream to dance.

I love curves; I'm all about curves. I don't have many, which is really sad, but I think the more the better.

I'm tall with broad shoulders. And my waist is small. I'm into fashion, so I like the way clothes lay on me. I'm pretty much a normal person's size, just stretched out.

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

It became my first passion, the first thing I really fell in love with. I joined the Ralph Robinson Ballet company, and then went to New York and became a dancer. I thought I'd die before I did anything else.

Growing up, I was a dancer. I wanted to be a choreographer.

I knew I wanted to be a ballet dancer, but what kind, I wasn't sure. My two dream companies had been New York City Ballet and American Ballet Theater.

I'm not straight up and down. I have curves.

The body is forever teaching us lessons. There are all sorts of things that we can't do, shouldn't do, had better not do very often or do for too long as we get older. The body makes its presence known.