Ballet Quote by George Balanchine

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

It's hard with ballet because your aesthetic really is important. It's different from acting and from film. Nobody wants to watch somebody who is…

— Amanda Schull

Classical ballet is very extreme. You're doing it six days a week, and it's a kind of obsession of perfecting a move. So every…

— Darcey Bussell

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

You have to be able to cut off from the ballet and relax, or you have anxiety dreams at night, worrying about what you're…

— Darcey Bussell

I'm not a very good dancer. My feet don't point far enough; my extension is embarrassing. Dance, for me, has been hard because it's…

— Justin Peck

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

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

Ballet is quite unnatural on the joints. My body is just worn. My joints are 10 years older than me.

— Darcey Bussell

“Classic Ballet, Keep away, keep building your creaky fairy castles, keep cloning clones and meaningless manners, hang on to your beanstalk ballerinas and their…

— Paul Taylor

Ballet is completely unnatural to the body, just being turned out... it's not the way your body is supposed to function, so you actually…

— Neve Campbell

I didn't care too much for ballet, because you had to be more disciplined, and you sort of looked like everyone else. It required…

— Suzanne Farrell