I have the wherewithal to challenge myself for my entire life. That's a great gift.

I think a sense of humor will help get a girl out of a dark place.

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

In dreams, anything can be anything, and everybody can do. We can fly, we can turn upside down, we can transform into anything.

My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a college degree. She was educated as a pianist and she wanted to concertize, but when the war came she was married, had a family, so she started teaching.

It is extremely arrogant and very foolish to think that you can ever outwit your audience.

I repeat the wake-up, the workout, the quick shower, the breakfast of three hard-boiled egg whites and a cup of coffee, the hour to make my morning calls and deal with correspondence, the two hours of stretching and working out ideas by myself in the studio ... That's my day, every day. A dancer's life is all about repetition.