I do believe that separation can be a bit damaging at times. To be happy about yourself and your culture and all of that is necessary and fulfilling, but the whole tapestry is what's important.

You take a plug and put it in a socket, and that's what the theatre is-it lights up right away. You speak, and they respond immediately.

Theatre is immediate gratification

Mother loved dance so much that she thought (ballerina) Margot Fonteyn should be the president.

It's communication - that's what theatre is all about.

The spirit of dance is an amazing thing. When the body and the spirit meet, it's a good thing.

I'm bugged because I can't believe I can't speak every language there is. But I feel I can when I sit and am with somebody, and I can dance for them. Because dance is dialogue without language.

Many of the shows I danced in don't exist on film, but they do exist in the memories of those who were in the theater for that single moment in time. And nothing can replace that.

My neighborhood was a great neighborhood; it was filled with all sorts of ethnic groups and things. So I grew up thinking I was a human being.

Looking back doesn't have to be painful.

I love life. I love the live theater.

You can be good at many things, but you can only be great at one thing, until you find that thing, you are an average loser.

If two people are meant to be, they'll find their way to each other.

I was doing something I'd never done before. And what will I be able to do tomorrow that I cannot yet do today?

The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.

Sometimes I feel like I’m not solid. I’m hollow. There’s nothing behind my eyes. I’m a negative of a person. All I want is blackness, blackness and silence.

When a man has many women in his life to cater to, one of them is bound to come last.

You hope your buddies will win so you don't have to loan them any money.

To know everything is to know nothing, but to know nothing is to know everything.

As I went to college, I went into radio and television. Now I suppose most people think that's one step ahead of basket weaving as a major in college, but it was part of the journalism department.

Those who object to wit are envious of it.