Treat each class as if it were your first.

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

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.

After I stopped dancing, I was unable to listen to beautiful music.

I had a wonderful childhood, coming from Cincinnati, and I think that it was great going into the life that I was going to have, where you have to start young as a dancer.

Although we do come from a silent profession, it is important for us to verbalize what we want to say. (As I tell my students): you could love someone all your life, but if you never say it how are they going to know? There comes a point when you have to say what you mean, which makes you scream louder when you dance.

I think it was important that I learned to love to dance eventually for its own sake, as opposed to wanting to be a ballerina.