Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.

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.

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

My dancing is not an attempt to interpret life in the literary sense. It is an affirmation of life through movement.

It is not your business to determine how good it is, nor how valuable it is, nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open.

Dancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal. The passion and the meaning to their movement can be another thing.

I've relaxed my feelings about other companies performing my works. I have never in principle been against my ballets being danced by other companies. Rather, it is that we lack the time, space and money to insure that they are done well. To me, the only sin is mediocrity.