To make real change, you have to be well anchored - not only in the belief that it can be done, but also in some pretty real ways about who you are and what you can do.

A dancer's life is all about repetition.

Without the little ideas, there are no big ideas.

I've always had to keep the walls in place, and the only way to do that is to keep yourself constantly occupied... From the time I was 8 years old, until I went to college, I worked... There was no social life.

I have not wanted to intimidate audiences. I have not wanted my dancing to be an elitist form. That doesn't mean I haven't wanted it to be excellent.

The art of these Fifties movies was in sustaining forever the moment before sex.

I was valedictorian. Did I enjoy going to school? I hated it. It wasn't a choice on my part, it was expected.