The more you fail in private, the less you will fail in public.

You can keep on chewing gum for ten hours, but after about a minute and a half you've got all the good out of it.

I have learned over the years that you should never save for two meetings what you can accomplish in one.

I write. I have read a great deal. I enjoy books. I like the wit of languages. Even French I like. I like to be able to think in different modes. I like to be able to use the language a great deal and carry on rehearsals in French.

The ballet needs to tell its own story in such a way it can be received without having to be translated into language.

Men and women are very different athletes, and frankly, I didn't want to deal with the male potential.

I also had a will that let me eliminate everything that stood in the way of my becoming the best dancer I could be. By a gradual process... (I) had invested every bit of my dreams, my hopes, my energies in defining myself as a dancer.