When you are on stage in front of an audience, you want to engage the entire crowd. If a thousand people are in the theater, you need to dance a thousand different ways, not one-thousandth of a way.

I liked tap, because I liked hearing the results of my movements.

The arts are the hospitals for our souls.

When you get on stage, you can be anything. You are removed from reality in a way, the real world.

It's ungrateful to be wishing you were doing something else at the moment you are living. You haven't lived in the moment that you are really living, you are wishing you were somewhere else.

In fact, ballet companies did not exist in the Midwest when I was a child.

I liked Latin, I like languages, I liked all the myths, and the Roman tales that we were required to translate in Latin, and all these interesting people who were never quite what they thought they would be or seemed to be.