Take your work seriously, but never yourself.

generally speaking, we are all happier when we are still striving for achievement than when the prize is in our hands.

The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.

Life offstage has sometimes been a wilderness of unpredictables in an unchoreographed world.

I explained it when I danced it.

Take your work seriously, but never yourself.

The world of dance is a natural world from which civilization has divorced many of us by making it appear remote - something reserved for the few who have a special talent.