Kids talk to me and say they want to do musicals again because they've studied the tapes of the old films. We didn't have that. We thought once we had made it, even on film, it was gone except for the archives.

I don't even want to discuss Flashdance. I'm no critic, but that's an interesting phenomenon, that picture.

My mother had gotten a job as a receptionist at a dancing school and had the idea that we should open our own dancing school; we did, and it prospered.

I may be rancid butter, but I'm on your side of the bread.

I think Twyla [Tharp] has a lot to say. The great thing about Twyla is that she continues to explore.

If I played a tough kid on the street I couldn't go out there and get into fifth position. I had to dance like a tough kid on the street.

I still find it almost impossible to relax for more than one day at a time.