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.

They are poets of gesture.

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.

I have no literary approach - except to literature.

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.

Dance is music made visible