Ballet Quote by Anonymous

You realize you can get good at something, even though ballet almost felt like you could never be good enough. No matter how hard…

— Susanna Hoffs

When you train as a dancer, you understand you have to work exceptionally hard. I think dancers are the hardest - working people in…

— Laverne Cox

Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible

— Agnes de Mille

The discipline that ballet requires is obsessive. And only the ones who dedicate their whole lives are able to make it. Your toenails fall…

— Penelope Cruz

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

— Bebe Neuwirth

Ballet technique is arbitrary and very difficult. It never becomes easy...it becomes possible.

— Agnes De Mille

A ballerina's life can be glorious. But it does not get any easier. I don't think anyone must ever think about it getting easier.

— Alicia Markova

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

It's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer.

— Twyla Tharp

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

— Sutton Foster

Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and sulfurous hatreds where anything is likely, and…

— Shana Alexander

Technical perfection is insufficient. It is an orphan without the true soul of the dancer.

— Sylvie Guillem