The only critic is a full house.

When I miss class for one day, I know it. When I miss class for two days, my teacher knows it. When I miss class for three days, the audience knows it.

You live as long as you dance.

For me, purity of movement wasn't enough. I needed expression, more intensity, more mind.

What is art? It is not just nature, it is nurtured nature. It is intelligence applied to what physical ability you have.

Technique is what you fall back on when you run out of inspiration.

A pas de deux is a dialogue of love. How can there be conversation if one partner is dumb?

The main thing is dancing, and before it withers away from my body, I will keep dancing till the last moment, the last drop.

I approach dancing from a different angle than those who begin dancing at 8 or 9. Those who have studied from the beginning never question anything.

We danced with one body, one soul... For me, Margot is my family. She is all I have, only her.

There was simply from this quite early age the awareness that the only thing I wanted was to dance.

No member of a society has a right to teach any doctrine contrary to what society holds to be true.

Once a week, I like to slip into a deep existential depression where I lose all my sense of oneness and self-worth.

To keep creating something with this type of music, you have to take it out of the box.

For an adult, eating alone at McDonald's is admitting a kind of defeat.

The industry should take comfort in knowing that WinStar is my main focus after my faith and family.

Lying to yourself is easy, too. I know. It's much harder to stay and deal with consequences.

You really have to go searching desperately to find any contemporary examples of good, old-fashioned runaway inflation.

My dad lived till he was 78, my mum was in her 80s, and I've got two uncles who are in their 90s now.

I once said to someone, If I could shave my head and wear no makeup and get a part just on my talent, I would be the happiest person in the world.

In an artist's life, death is perhaps not the most difficult thing.