When we got to our hotel rooms, mosquitoes as big as George Foreman were waiting for us. They were sitting in armchairs with their legs crossed.

You got to be brave. If you feel something, you've really got to risk it.

I try to give my work everything I've got, because when you're dead or you're out of the business or you're in an old actors' home somewhere, if you've done a good job, your work will still be 16 years old and dancing and healthy and pirouetting and arabesquing all over the place. And they'll say, "That's who he is! He's not this decaying skeleton."

If you're alive, make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death.

My brothers went to work at 12 and put themselves through school and brought the family out of ruin into food and clothing.

I don't know what to say so I'll just say what's in my heart...badoom, badoom, badoom.

Writing is simply one thought after another dying upon the one before.