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

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.

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

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

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.

Dance expresses joy better than anything else.