Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it.

Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place.

There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium, and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open.

I want to make people feel intensely alive. I'd rather have them against me than indifferent.

I believe that we learn by practice.

Dancing is a very living art. It is essentially of the moment, although a very old art. A dancer's art is lived while he is dancing. Nothing is left of his art except the pictures and the memories--when his dancing days are over.

Pity is a corroding thing.