Certainly the life of a dancer is very difficult. The training is very hard and relentlessly grueling.

People make snap judgments about me that are frequently misguided.

The musical stuff I'd go up for was always funny, sexy, tough-as-nails, heart-of-gold characters.

I've never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.

When you're a dancer who is injured, you are at the bottom of the food chain. We are so replaceable.

I missed New York. Every break I had from the series, I'd fly back to the East Coast just to get back onstage.

I've seen some very beautiful drag queens.

I was not influenced by concerts as a child, but I was very strongly influenced by the ballets I saw.

Artists need to express.

I don't see myself as a diva at all.

Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?

Hope itself is like a star- not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity, and only to be discovered in the night of adversity.

Accept the fact that you are fully responsible for your career.

There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.

Trains are wonderful.... To travel by train is to see nature and human beings, towns and churches and rivers, in fact, to see life.

Without Jimmy (James) Dean the Beatles would never have existed.

A statesman doesn't try to pull himself up by dragging someboy else down, and he doesn't try to convience people they're victims just so he can posture as their savior.

Happiness isn't something this island yields easily; the ground is too rocky and the sun too sparse for it to flourish.

Nothing in the world is so compelling to the emotions as the mind of another human being

If you squander on a holyday, you will want on a workday unless you have been sparing.

All significant achievement comes from daring from experiment from the willingness to risk failure.