Life is just a bowl of cherries, don't take it serious, its mysterious. Life is just a bowl of cherries, so live and laugh and laugh at love, love a laugh, laugh and love.

Mary Martin was Broadway's biggest closet king. Everyone thought Ethel (Merman) was butch and maybe a lesbian, but she wasn't. And everyone thought that lovely little Mary was Miss Femme, and she was -- except next to her gay husband. In other words, don't judge a star by her cover.

The time to sing is when your emotional level is just too high to speak anymore, and the time to dance is when your emotions are just too strong to only sing about how you feel.

Don't dance for the audience; dance for yourself.

The energy doesn't end at the hands. I want such intensity that it feels like light is streaming from every finger.

I think Balanchine and Robbins talk to God and when I call, he's out to lunch.

You spend your whole life trying to get known and then you spend the rest of it hiding in the toilet.