Ability Quote by Deborah Bull

This is the strange thing: Dancers don't age.

— Twyla Tharp

You see, dancers are quite mature people because they start performing so early. They become professionals when they start to take everyday classes.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

Obviously, the young dancers lack a certain air of maturity.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

Most dancers have a young body. This is part discipline and part desire, because just sitting around makes one feel sluggish.

— Cyd Charisse

It's hard to dance after a certain age. All those athletic things - like looking up at my kneecaps - they're just not there…

— Ann Reinking

A lot of professional dancers become professional when they turn 15 or 16 years old, when they're still children. So you've trained every single…

— Amanda Schull

There are always younger and better dancers fighting to get your place. You get worn down by the fight to try to stay at…

— Darcey Bussell

But you do have to start young as a dancer if you're going to achieve the physical skills necessary.

— Deborah Bull

Dancers have more bones than most people and on the days when you work hard you are sure that you have somehow accumulated more…

— Martha Graham

If you want to take dance to an extra level, you have to be physically fit. You also have to put the years of…

— Andrew Stone

The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body. I don't leap and jump anymore. I look…

— Martha Graham

Young dancers are training at a very vulnerable time in their lives, through adolescence, and while they are trying to work out who they…

— Deborah Bull