I learned to act by watching Martha Graham dance, and I learned to dance by watching Charlie Chaplin act.

In my dreams I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance.

Anyone who has achieved excellence in any form knows that it comes as a result of ceaseless concentration.

The tragedy of film history is that it is fabricated, falsified, by the very people who make film history.

When I went to Hollywood in 1927, the girls were wearing lumpy sweaters and skirts. I was wearing sleek suits and half naked beaded gowns and piles and piles of furs.

I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of 'not trying.' I tried with all my heart.

I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife.