Doing is better than not doing, and if you do something badly you'll learn to do it better.

This is not a pleasant route for many young people to consider. You have to be either hopelessly passionate, or very stupid.

The first steps of a creative act are like groping in the dark: random and chaotic, feverish and fearful, a lot of busy-ness with no apparent or definable end in sight.

I began to discriminate between fear and excitement. The two, though very close, are completely different. Fear is negative excitement, choking your imagination. Real excitement produces an energy that overcomes apprehension and makes you want to close in on your goal.

I’m much stronger than most women. Consequently, when I work with men, or when I’m partnered by men... We can actually go into kinds of movement that haven’t been available before, simply because I’ve strengthened myself as a woman, not because I’ve weakened him.

I think Tolstoy had an unbelievably complicated relationship with women.

I was interested in becoming a show dancer, for which I tried, but I'm not tall enough.