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I started ballet in my early 20s. I studied for about ten years. Ballet is probably the one of the hardest things I've done, almost like MMA. People don't give it a lot of credit and think it's easy, but it's very difficult. For an athlete, you use muscles you really don't use, and ballet is something I really respect.

— Herschel Walker

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Ballet is an incredibly difficult, beautiful art form that takes a lot of training, a lot of time, and a lot of hard work.

— Sutton Foster

At age 10, I was better at ballet than I think I will ever be at any physical activity for the rest of my life.

— Katie Findlay

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 sickly thin. And it's interesting because I have danced with people who are ill, have eating disorders, and a light goes off within them.

— Amanda Schull

As an adult, I took ballet classes three times a week, and I believed it gave me better posture, a stronger body, and made me more graceful.

— Ann Hood

The discipline that ballet requires is obsessive. And only the ones who dedicate their whole lives are able to make it. Your toenails fall off and you peel them away and then you're asked to dance again and keep smiling. I wanted to become a professional ballet dancer.

— Penelope Cruz

I trained as a ballet dancer - well, I started when I was two and a half, and was serious about it from when I was eight until I was 18.

— Jessica Brown Findlay

I was sent to ballet classes when I was a little girl. I wasn't very good, but it's that thing where little girls always try ballet, or whatever.

— Cat Deeley

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

— Margaret Qualley

✗Opposing Perspectives

I began dancing when I was 7 years old. I was told that I had the perfect ballet dancer's body and had these crazy high arches in my feet that resulted in an amazing point. Ballet was very disciplined and, frankly, a little boring, so I eventually transitioned to gymnastics. I loved that, although I never reached a competitive level.

— Catherine Mary Stewart

I started taking ballet lessons when I was three and a half and I still take dance classes.

— Oksana Baiul