I'm bugged because I can't believe I can't speak every language there is. But I feel I can when I sit and am with somebody, and I can dance for them. Because dance is dialogue without language.

You can feel whether an audience is tightened up and pulled back. Of course the opposite is an audience like we've been having in LA, which is fabulous.

Somebody told me once I wasn't Latin enough, and that made me laugh

I'm not comfortable with just me, me, me. That's boring.

A lot of Americans like happy endings, but life does not necessarily have a happy ending.

I love life. I love the live theater.

I have to make this love affair believable enough. It's very European.