What are you waiting for? What are you saving for? Now is all there is.

I've got more energy now than when I was younger because I know exactly what I want to do.

I could never make a ballet by wrinkling my brow and concentrating. If you set out deliberately to make a masterpiece, how will you ever get it finished?

Someone once said that dancers work just as hard as policeman, always alert, always tense. But I don't agree with that because policeman don't have to look beautiful at the same time.

The pointes for girls, I always say, have to be like an elephant's trunk; strong and yet flexible and soft.

Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays.

The woman's function is to fascinate men.