Dance involves physicality, it involves spirituality and even brains.

Even the ears must dance.

You cannot dance an arabesque in 'Swan Lake' and 'Nutcracker' the same way.

Technical things are getting more mechanical. Take 'Swan Lake,' the Black Swan pas de deux. Now, my goodness, they're turning not just 32 fouettes - but double or triple pirouettes.

A real ballerina must fill her space with her own personality.

The expression should come from within oneself, conveying the spiritual - something between earth and heaven. And if one runs, one should not seem to touch the ground.

To look back all the time is boring. Excitement lies in tomorrow.

It's not possible to be perfect - you can always do something better. I'm never proud of what I've done. Sometimes, I'm not ashamed.

I recently learn a new word: insatiable. That's me.

It is the body, subject to the harmony of the steps it is executing, which speaks. And it speaks to the heart in as direct a language as does music.

Being spontaneous, it's what saved me.

When there is faith, the world is balanced.

You don't have to force anyone to Trust You they just do and give away there Heart, Soul and Body to You Only if they really Love you and Mean the world to Them

Why can't a woman be more like a man? Men are so honest, so thoroughly square; Eternally noble, historically fair; Who, when you win, will always give your back a pat. Why can't a woman be like that?

When we know Christ, we always know how things are going to go...always for our good and always for His glory.

For the record: I wear makeup. All. The. Time. But I do it in a way that looks natural.

There are many waies to fame. {There are many ways to fame.]

The most successful people are mavericks who aren't afraid to ask why, especially when everyone thinks it's obvious.

At every moment, Love's voice talks to us from left and from right. All we have to do is to know how to listen.

I actually think it's going to be the intriguing plot [ in Black Snake Moan] point that brings people into the film.

I never drove a car. I'm hopeless that way. I press the wrong buttons on the tape recorder. But if the person I'm interviewing helps me out, that person feels needed. People need to feel needed.