Nobody cares if you can't dance well.

What I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness.

Modern dance isn't anything except one thing in my mind: the freedom of women in America.

It takes ten years, usually, to make a dancer. It takes ten years of handling the instrument, handling the material with which you are dealing, for you to know it completely.

Censorship is the height of vanity.

I am absorbed in the magic of movement and light. Movement never lies. It is the magic of what I call the outer space of the imagination.

One can always lament, you know — but to laugh in the face of life, that's very hard. And for me the great tragedian should also be a great comedian.