Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.

A young person has to start making decisions for themselves at a much earlier age than an overbearing parent allows one.

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.

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

We're a machine and we have to be worked in the same way we have to be fed.

You're only kidding yourself if you put creativity before craft.

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.