Although I don't gamble in life - I've never played poker - I do gamble on stage. I gamble with myself: 'Can I do this?'

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.

Natural isn't the same as right. Normal isn't the same as moral. Everyone deserves a say in what happens to the world.

There is no right or wrong way to grief. There is only one way - your way!

In this early memory he looks different from the way I would remember him later.

A vision inspires, aligns, and directs. it says to other people, "here is what I am up to, come and play in my sandbox!

Now, you always know there's going to be some compromise when you're doing something for television, and especially network television.

I learned that I have to work hard every day, that I can't get down if I get in a slump.

Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs.

When you are frustrated and do not know a way out, only flexibility and moderation towards difficulties will save you.

I get my inspiration from books, pictures, art. I might find a vintage scarf and say, "I think this should be our color palette."

Everyone has a bad hair day; the trick is not to have one on picture day.