The center of the stage is where I am.

I think comedy is the most difficult thing in the world, I really do.

How many leaps did Nijinksy take before he made the one that startled the world? He took thousands and thousands and it is that legend that gives us the courage, the energy, and arrogance to go back into the studio knowing that while there is so little time to be born to the instant, you will work again among the many that you may once more be born as one. That is a dancer's world.

Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart. The instrument through which the dance speaks is also the instrument through which life is lived ... the human body.

Theater used to be a verb; it used to be an act. But nowadays it is just a noun. It is a place.

Dance is the landscape of man's soul.

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