I get speeding ticket like everybody else. If the restaurant is full I'm waiting in line like everybody else.

I don't go to a gym, I don't do yoga. I don't do personal training.

When a body moves, it's the most revealing thing. Dance for me a minute, and I'll tell you who you are.

I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.

Be. Good. To yourself, to other people, to everything you do. It's a norm of life by which people should try to live. Don't waste time. Be interesting and interested.

The more injuries you get, the smarter you get.

I was not extremely patriotic about Mother Russia. I played their game, pretending. You have to deal with, you know, party people, KGB. Horrifying.

No one is born a dancer. You have to want it more than anything.

No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.

When I see people on the street, I look at how they walk. It's like a signature, a fingerprint.

There comes a moment in a young artist's life when he knows he has to bring something to the stage from within himself. He has to put in something in order to be able to take something.

Butterflies don't know their wings' Colors, but others see their Splendor.

Apparently, I'm a sucker for a man with belt buckles the size of Texas.

The precepts of the law may be comprehended under these three points: to live honestly, to hurt no man willfully, and to render every man his due carefully.

I am proactive and looking to change my own behavior rather than others' - which is generally much more successful!

Modern man is a hard-working human.

We who didn't inherit political power nor are made to acquire riches like nothing better than that which expands and solidifies the power of the spirit.

I hope that my niece in 20 years is going to say to me, 'Aunt Stevie, what was with your hair?'

This rule is so underrated: Keep your family and business completely separated.

No one can be cured of being who they are.

The great poems of heaven and hell have been written and the great poem of earth remains to be written.