There is pain and sacrifice in everyone's world. That's why, when I was dancing, I had no pain.

That the work involved, the willingness to take chances, the commitment, the opportunity to get on stage and make people happy, was more important than becoming famous, or even what I was dancing.

I learned to love dance for its own sake.

Once I started dancing, I was not the spoiled brat or the rebellious child that I was as a child.

You're never more of an individual than when you're a happy team player.

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 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.