Misty Copeland Quotes

I wanted to be a male ballet dancer.

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

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

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

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

Classical ballet will never die.

At 7, I was at the barre and dancing at folk festivals. Then I was a student with the ballet school of the Metropolitan Opera.

I am passionate about ballet.

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.

In ballet class, I felt like Ralph Wiggum.

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.

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 really enjoyed watching a ballerina named Denise Dabrowski who used to dance at California Ballet. She was a beautiful ballerina and role model for a lot of young dancers.

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

My favorite dancer is Sylvie Guillem.

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

In the world of classical ballet there are only a handful of story ballets, so getting a new one is cause for excitement.

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 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.

Technical things are getting more mechanical. Take 'Swan Lake,' the Black Swan pas de deux. Now, my goodness, they're turning not just 32 fouettes - but double or triple pirouettes.

Ballet is an incredibly difficult, beautiful art form that takes a lot of training, a lot of time, and a lot of hard work.