I learned to love dance for its own sake.

I'm thought of as a cool, unemotional dancer, but inside I'm not.

I loved tests because it was another form of competing, a healthy competition.

You're never more of an individual than when you're a happy team player.

I loved the stage not because it provided an escape from myself or my humdrum life but because when the curtain went up I could be whoever I wanted to be, and that was true freedom - to be myself.

Once I started dancing, I was not the spoiled brat or the rebellious child that I was as a child.

The arts are the hospitals for our souls.

I set as my goal to be the best dancer I could be. Not the most famous, or the highest paid dancer, just the best I could be. Out of this discipline came great freedom and calm.

On the other hand, I think it is wonderful for everyone to take ballet classes, at any age. It gives you a discipline, it gives you a place to go. It gives you some control in your life.

As soon as I hear music, something in me starts to vibrate.

When you get on stage, you can be anything. You are removed from reality in a way, the real world.

To achieve the impossible, you must attempt the absurd

No-one ever built a statue of a critic.

I was laughing and he was too, and there we were, tangled up together in the water and sunshine. In a good kind of way.

Garry Hill is a pleasure to be around, and his work is a rewarding reflection of my career.

Poor people have sh*tty lobbyists.

The metal of economic theory is in Marx's pages immersed in such a wealth of steaming phrases as to acquire a temperature not naturally its own.

Ballet really taught me so much about the power of movement.

Certain people do need to stay in character the whole time, and that's just what they require as a person.

My soul-bird loves my body-cage Only when it is kept fit, Pure and absolutely immaculate.

Superstition sets the whole world in flames, but philosophy douses them.