The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.

For ballroom dancing, remember that your partners have their own distinctive styles also. Cultivate flexibility. Be able to adapt your style to that of your partner. In doing so, you are not surrendering your individuality, but blending it with that of your partner.

I have no desire to prove anything by my work. I have never used it as an outlet or as a means of expressing myself. I just dance.

Oh, God! That boy moves in a very exceptional way. That's the greatest dancer of the century.

If the dance is right, there shouldn't be a single superfluous movement.

I had some ballet training but didn't like it. It was like a game to me.

It takes time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.