To be honest, there is a tourists' trail; my family had a farm and a gas station, and you can go and see my birthplace, though where I lived is actually under a freeway now.

Australia, to the rest of the world, is just far away, and Australia in the Thirties was the faraway of the faraway.

I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.

Don't waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long, and in the end, it's only with yourself

Trust yourself that you can do it and get it

The ugly duckling is a misunderstood universal myth. It's not about turning into a blonde Barbie doll or becoming what you dream of being; it's about self-revelation, becoming who you are.

I think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler.