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

One is born to be a dancer. No teacher can work miracles, nor will years of training make a good dancer of an untalented pupil. One may be able to acquire a certain technical facility, but no one can ever 'acquire an exceptional talent.' I have never prided myself on having an unusually gifted pupil. A Pavlova is no one's pupil but God's.

The mirror is not you. The mirror is you looking at yourself.

The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener.

I don't have a past. I have a continuous present. The past is part of the present, just as the future is. We exist in time.

Why are you stingy with yourselves? Why are you holding back? What are you saving for - for another time? There are no other times. There is only now. Right now.

I cannot move, I cannot even want to move, unless I hear the music first.