Ballet Quote by Martha Graham

When you start off as a dancer, you don't become one overnight; you must train for more than a decade.

— Amala Akkineni

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

It takes about ten years to make a mature dancer. The training is twofold. There is the study and practice of the craft in…

— Martha Graham

Ideally, a dancer should put in 10 hours of daily practice to deliver a polished performance.

— Shakti Mohan

There are three steps you have to complete to become a professional dancer: learn to dance, learn to perform, and learn how to cope…

— David Gere

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

— Bebe Neuwirth

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

— Deborah Bull

I didn't want to be a dancer... I just did it to work my way through college. But I was always an athlete and…

— Gene Kelly

I was a dancer for over 20 years.

— Carmella

It was not until I had graduated from college that I made a professional commitment to it. Frankly, I didn't think it wise. I…

— Twyla Tharp

I've always wanted to be a professional dancer, I'd always wanted to be a ballerina. I trained for 13 years but it never came…

— Jenna Jameson

I heard a lot in school, 'You've got a really great talent, but there's no way you're going to be a dancer with that…

— Tracy Anderson