I am not an educated person. I didn't come up through a ballet company. I came up through burlesque. So I have a lot of inferiority feelings concerning my own lack of education, my entry into show business. I'm not a Baryshnikov. I'm not a Nureyev. I came up in vaudeville. Strippers. So I've always had these feelings. But I think they've also helped me.

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

In today's world, everything seems like some sort of long audition.

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

Human beings are born with the instinct to express themselves through movement. Even before he could communicate with words, primitive man was dancing to the beat of his own heart.

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

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.