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.

Dance expresses joy better than anything else.

They may not know what I'm doing, but they know I'm doing something!

Choreography is writing on your feet.

Directors are never in short supply of girlfriends.

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

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