When I grow up I am going to be a ballerina. I will be in Giselle. It will be so much fun being a ballerina.

Friday night is our date night. We really carve out time for each other.

Treasure the things about you that make you different and unique.

Surround yourself with people who provide you with support and love and remember to give back as much as you can in return.

Even if I had nothing to do with the Canada Council, I'd be praying for it.

Talent will only take you so far, and it is your ability to feel the music and explore a movement that will bring you the greatest pleasure in dance.

What's a dancer's worst enemy? Sometimes it's age, but sometimes it's the dancer themselves.

There's nothing like the force and challenge of a new ballet to galvanize everyone involved in bringing it to life.

I know how demanding the process of creation is.

Like everyone else, I want to go on dancing forever, but I know the day is going to come when I will have to be doing something else.

Canadians are very proud of me, of my career.

Creativity is the catalyst to the future.

To some education is just a bore

If love is like driving a car, then I must be the worst driver in the world. I missed all the signs and ended up lost.

The Snow White the midnight the moon tales of the mechanics

One of my best friends is named David Leventhal, and it has always been a constant source of amusement to see how the similarity and differences play out in our lives.

The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'

I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.

The gospel is the fulfillment of all hopes, the perfection of all philosophy, the interpretation of all revelation, the key to all the seeming contradictions of the physical and moral world.

A lot of people relate me to the blues but I don't think it's a hindrance at this point. I've been doing it long enough that I can do different things and be accepted.

Every day someone notices me and waves to me, or stops and speaks to me, or asks me for an autograph, or photographs me.