Dancers are stripped enough onstage. You don't have to know more about them than they've given you already.

No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.

A country like Belgium, or socialist countries in central Europe spend more money on art education than the United States, which is a really puzzling thought.

You don't measure life by receiving awards.

I go a lot to see young people downtown in little theaters. It's great. If you start somebody's career, it's so exciting.

Perfection is a theory. You cannot be a perfect human being, perfect artist. You cannot be a perfect husband, you cannot be a perfect father probably and probably I am not. But go through your daily routine with hope you will be a little better in all respects, and do something meaningful

It's weird when you see pieces of choreography that were done for you 15 or 20 years ago and now they are being done by another dance company.