Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.

Nobody cares if you can't dance well.

I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being.

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

The main thing, of course, always, is the fact that there is only one of you in the world, just one, and if that is not fulfilled then something has been lost. Ambition is not enough; necessity is everything.

The gesture is the thing truly expressive of the individual - as we think so will we act.

Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.