In a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate strength.

At the time I started in ballet they were dancing 'The Spirit of Champagne' on pointe, in Paris. I thought, 'I don't want to dance the spirit of champagne, I want to drink it!

Dancers are the messengers of the gods.

Dance is the hidden langauge of the soul, of the body.

We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.

Sometimes it's blood memory... not the blood your mother and father gave you... but that which stretches back two or three thousand years.

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