Be. Good. To yourself, to other people, to everything you do. It's a norm of life by which people should try to live. Don't waste time. Be interesting and interested.

I remember vividly seeing 'Tarzan' and Fred Astaire, the Chaplin films, Fred Astaire musicals, MGM, because of my mother. She was just interested in everything and she took me to opera and ballet, and then ballet got me hooked.

I am teaching more. That is what I do best.

Just sit and open your eyes and open your heart. It's dance theater.

You can be totally involved, you could admire just the shape of or you could be totally emotionally mushed up into the dance.

You invest into the future, and that's how young people become human in best sense of it - through the great experience of listening a Müller symphony or to see a great play by Tennessee Williams, experience something in a ballet, in a film.

He [Astaire] was not a sexual animal, but he made his partners look so extraordinarily related to him.