Also, if you have an accident, you can't start to dance again at the top, you're too weak; you start with the easy things - the way you did them when you were young, and come up up up, the way you did then.

All the children in the school should learn the steps of everything, before they learn the thing, then they know which step they're doing better, because your voice is in certain steps and has to do most of the things that have been composed in those steps.

You can't dance until you've learnt steps, the things your feet can do.

God gave us all exactly the same fingers, arms, legs, and feet, but in our different countries we divided them all a little differently as we feel it, do you understand?

There's nothing in the world that isn't good, bad, and indifferent.

Nothing is done easily, first have the thing, then the thing has a success, then all sorts of difficulties arise through the success.

And then you have the classical ballerinas, they're like sopranos. Applied to the dance.