The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body. I don't leap and jump anymore. I look at young dancers, and I am envious, more aware of what glories the body contains. But sensitivity is not made dull by age.

Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.

If I can't dance, I don't care if my dances are ever done again!

Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.

Misery is a communicable disease.

What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.

I'd rather an audience like me than dislike me, but I'd rather they disliked me than be apathetic, because that is the kiss of death.