To tend unfailingly unflinchingly towards a goal is the secret of success.

God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.

Master technique and then forget about it and be natural.

Where there is no heart there is no art.

The right to happiness is fundamental.

To tend, unfailingly, unflinchingly, towards a goal, is the secret of success.

It is useless to dabble in beauty. One must be utterly devoted to beauty, with every nerve of the body.

If I could have said it, I shouldn't have had to dance it.

To follow without halt, one aim; there is the secret of success. And success? What is it? I do not find it in the applause of the theater; it lies rather in the satisfaction of accomplishment.

Whenever I have had a sudden urge to quit dancing, I just remember that moment I had when I was young and remember that dancing is what I want to do.

Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work.

Is the any certainty like Faith?

He had left home one day, yesterday, and come home today, and the change was too much for him to bear. And this was why he could not go home all at once.

Take care of your common sense, and your dignity will take care of itsself

I went to national piano competitions and did that whole circuit. Then I played professionally to support myself when I moved out to LA.

When I break any of the chains that bind me I feel that I make myself smaller.

I must absorb everything while I'm still singing and step onto the stages of my many homes, and look out at the familiar surroundings, at the people who have come to hear me, to hear music.

An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.

It's probably a twelve-day. He needs two days to wake up.

That’s the trouble with being scared all the time. Eventually, people just go numb.

I don't compare 'em, I just catch 'em.