Dancers aren't made of their technique, but their passion.

Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they're afraid that they'll be forgotten. And in America they're quite right. They will be.

If you want to understand a nation, look at its dances and listen to its folk songs - don't pay any attention to its politicians.

The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.

Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down... and kissed him. And the world cracked open.

We can't stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.

Dancing is such a despised and dishonored trade that if you tell a doctor or a laywer you do choreography he'll look at you as if you were a hummingbird. Dancers don't get invited to visit people. It is assumed a boy dancer will run off with the spoons and a girl with the head of the house.