One is born to be a great dancer.

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.

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

Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays.

If you don't feel challenged, it's because you're not doing enough. Ballet should never feel comfortable. Comfortable is lazy! If you're comfortable when you dance, you're not pushing yourself hard enough. 100 % is not enough. You have to give 200%. One tendu takes years of hard work and will never be perfect. Everything in ballet is a challenge.

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

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