I set as my goal to be the best dancer I could be. Not the most famous, or the highest paid dancer, just the best I could be. Out of this discipline came great freedom and calm.

I'm thought of as a cool, unemotional dancer, but inside I'm not.

I loved tests because it was another form of competing, a healthy competition.

You're never more of an individual than when you're a happy team player.

I loved the stage not because it provided an escape from myself or my humdrum life but because when the curtain went up I could be whoever I wanted to be, and that was true freedom - to be myself.

Once I started dancing, I was not the spoiled brat or the rebellious child that I was as a child.

The arts are the hospitals for our souls.

On the other hand, I think it is wonderful for everyone to take ballet classes, at any age. It gives you a discipline, it gives you a place to go. It gives you some control in your life.

As soon as I hear music, something in me starts to vibrate.

When you get on stage, you can be anything. You are removed from reality in a way, the real world.

After I stopped dancing, I was unable to listen to beautiful music.

Speak when you are angry, and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.

Francine looked up and mouthed, "Thank you." "any titme, " I lied.

The real question is why you still believe in that invisible god when a true one stands before you?

Easter is one of my favorite holidays with the kids. They get to run loose, and we always have our family and loved ones all around us!

If you think you are in control, you're fooling yourself. As soon as you start listening, you realize you're not in control. And letting go will yield more and better results.

If you handed [character] a glass that was 90% full, he'd tell you that the 10% empty part proved that no one really cared about water.

The only revenge which is essentially Christian is that of retaliating by forgiveness.

people share a common nature but are trained in gender roles.

Art is not truth; art is the lie which makes us see the truth.

I’ve always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there.