I was a devil in other countries, and I was a little devil in America, too.

I remember when Lindbergh arrived in Paris, I was one of the first persons to know about his landing, because as the French people know that I was born in St. Louis, thinking I would be very proud to announce it to the public, they gave me the news first. I was then starring in the 'Folies Bergere.'

Since I personified the savage on the stage, I tried to be as civilized as possible in daily life.

I shall dance all my life. . . . I would like to die, breathless, spent, at the end of a dance.

A violinist had a violin, a painter his palette. All I had was myself. I was the instrument that I must care for.

Art is an elastic sort of love.

I did take the blows [of life], but I took them with my chin up, in dignity, because I so profoundly love and respect humanity.