Able Quote by Penelope Cruz

Ballet is not just my profession, it is my life ... It is horrible for me to think that one day it will all finish.

— Svetlana Zakharova

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 is more than a profession - it is a way of life.

— Margot Fonteyn

I took ballet for two years in high school and then in college on and off, and I went back into class. I'm nowhere…

— Peter Vack

Ballet is something for which you need so much control and composure. And there's an element to acting that is the complete opposite. You…

— Sonoya Mizuno

Well, that's why ballet is one of the hardest disciplines - you kind of stay childlike, because you never really experience childhood, so you…

— Sergei Polunin

Ballet dancing is arduous, strenuous activity. Students are engaged in physical training that rivals the training Olympic athletes undergo. At the same time, they…

— George Balanchine

Ballet can be grueling, for sure, but it gives you a certain discipline.

— Margaret Qualley

Ballet dancers are a self-chosen elite. To survive and surmount years of disciplinary preparation and seasons of even more arduous performance requires rigid determination…

— Lincoln Kirstein

Ballet is the repetitive training of the body for the purpose of executing steps in traditional fashion. It is tied to and bound by…

— Shirley MacLaine

I'm not fond of the idea of doing ballet for ballet's sake, because dancers get exploited and they're not paid well. They do it…

— Sergei Polunin

I have always been secretly obsessed with ballet - in awe of the discipline, the physicality, the poise and grace. Behind the perfectly placed…

— Angela Scanlon