I go a lot to see young people downtown in little theaters. It's great. If you start somebody's career, it's so exciting.

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.

We never get to love by hate, least of all by self-hatred.

You never really want anything you can easily have.

Eating meat is not your personal decision, any more than, you know, whether somebody beats their child is their personal decision.

You can't divide a business like a sack of apples.

Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.

See not perfection in self. Seek it not in others. One being a false perceptionThe other, an endless quest.

The greatest illiterate is the inability to learn the great things of life from small things around.

But I'm not a member of the Democratic Party. If you know anything about me, anybody who's followed me, I'm the anti-Democrat. I have railed against the Democrats for a long time.

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