I think especially in a world where you have so little say about what goes on in your life, or in the politics of the world around you, it is wonderful to go into that studio, and tell yourself what to do.

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

Good theater should always send people away feeling changed.

Do not brood. It makes the moment you are living in unavailable for learning and life.

The arts are the hospitals for our souls.

I loved tests because it was another form of competing, a healthy competition.

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