It's like the time capsule with everything in it. Or like the seed that when you plant it, becomes the enormous tree with leaves and fruit. Everybody was in that little seed, and so everything can open. The tree of dance is like that. It just takes a long, long time to blossom.

I don't want people who want to dance; I want people who have to dance.

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?

First comes the sweat. Then comes the beauty if you're very lucky and have said your prayers.

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

Put a man and a girl on stage and there is already a story; a man and two girls, there's already a plot.

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