Ballerina Quote by Alicia Markova

How difficult it is to exist, that we are athlete and artist. We have injuries. People don't see the hard side of being a…

— Misty Copeland

Being a ballerina can be a very unnatural life, especially after you've had children.

— Darcey Bussell

It took me a long time to understand that there is no amount of wanting and no amount of desire and no amount of…

— Arlene Phillips

Certainly the life of a dancer is very difficult. The training is very hard and relentlessly grueling.

— Bebe Neuwirth

Letting go of perfectionism, so ingrained in the nature of a ballet dancer, can be the most difficult thing.

— Anonymous

I never dreamt of becoming a ballerina. I was just curious about it, it was something to explore.

— Sylvie Guillem

For every dancer, no matter how amazing your career, there's more to life than ballet. Being adored by your audience, it's only part of…

— Darcey Bussell

I haven’t come from the typical path or background of someone who would make it to this level as a ballerina. When it came…

— Misty Copeland

I've always felt like a different kind of ballerina.

— Wendy Whelan

I think it was important that I learned to love to dance eventually for its own sake, as opposed to wanting to be a…

— Suzanne Farrell

Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible

— Agnes de Mille

Ballet is hard enough when you go with it; when you have to force your body to do things, it is so much harder.

— Sylvie Guillem