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

It is a fact that all the ballet's fundamental dance steps are derived from the folk dances of Western Europe.

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.

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.

Diaghilev was the first to notice good character dancers and that sort of thing.