When you stimulate your body, your brain comes alive in ways you can't simulate in a sedentary position.

Dancers are allowed, indeed encouraged, to remain children forever.

The content and thematic materials of dance is, of itself, like boxing. You play tennis and baseball. But boxing is not a sport you play: you stand up and do it.

No one is born with skill. It is developed through exercise, through repetition, through a blend of learning and reflection that's both painstaking and rewarding. And it takes time.

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

Perfect practice makes perfect.

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.