Ballet Quote by Sylvie Guillem

Someone need not be perfect to be a great dancer - feeling a soul is more important than what the body can do.

— Marcia Haydee

Letting go of perfectionism, so ingrained in the nature of a ballet dancer, can be the most difficult thing.

— Anonymous

As a dancer, it's hard because there's such a perfectionist quality that you really have to let go of while you're acting, because nobody…

— Kathryn McCormick

Perfection bores me, in art, in music; most of all, in people. Luckily, perfection is rare.

— Vicki Baum

Dance is not about perfection.It is about how you move your body to release the frustration from your every pore.

— Zarnab

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

— Twyla Tharp

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

What is perfection, anyway? It's the death of creativity.

— Diane Keaton

Being a ballerina, you don't ever want to show yourself less than perfect, ever. That's what your goal is: 24/7 perfection.

— Wendy Whelan

I am not a natural dancer, not even a half way competent dancer.

— Ann Widdecombe

If one had to define one essential gift with which a dancer needs to be endowed, there might be a rush of answers. A…

— Lincoln Kirstein

I am a singer and dancer, and I've been perfecting it for a lot of years.

— Tony Danza