Stand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow.

People have asked me why I chose to be a dancer. I did not choose. I was chosen to be a dancer, and with that, you live all your life.

At the time I started in ballet they were dancing 'The Spirit of Champagne' on pointe, in Paris. I thought, 'I don't want to dance the spirit of champagne, I want to drink it!

Dancers have more bones than most people and on the days when you work hard you are sure that you have somehow accumulated more bones than you started with.

Dance is the hidden langauge of the soul, of the body.

Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.

Nobody cares if you can't dance well.