In order to be creative, you have to know how to prepare to be creative.

It's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer.

Any comic is a tragic soul. Comedy is one of the things that allows one to survive. Particularly if one has been in the process of separating off the emotions, it's one place you can process them.

If you only do what you know and do it very, very well, chances are that you won't fail. You'll just stagnate, and your work will get less and less interesting, and that's failure by erosion

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.

Life is about moving, it’s about change. And when things stop doing that they’re dead.

I'm not one who divides music, dance or art into various categories. Either something works, or it doesn't.