I think Balanchine and Robbins talk to God and when I call, he's out to lunch.

The time to sing is when your emotional level is just too high to speak anymore, and the time to dance is when your emotions are just too strong to only sing about how you feel.

The energy doesn't end at the hands. I want such intensity that it feels like light is streaming from every finger.

Human beings are born with the instinct to express themselves through movement. Even before he could communicate with words, primitive man was dancing to the beat of his own heart.

Don't dance for the audience; dance for yourself.

Life is just a bowl of cherries, don't take it serious, its mysterious. Life is just a bowl of cherries, so live and laugh and laugh at love, love a laugh, laugh and love.

Dance expresses joy better than anything else.

They may not know what I'm doing, but they know I'm doing something!

In today's world, everything seems like some sort of long audition.

Choreography is writing on your feet.

You spend your whole life trying to get known and then you spend the rest of it hiding in the toilet.

If it’s not gonna matter tomorrow, it shouldn’t matter today.

If your ship doesn't come in swim out to it.

You reach a point where you don't work for money.

Beyoncé don't get a lot of leaks. She just has a very tight control. Most of the time, that's generally not the case, but I pretty much follow her direction.

What the philosopher is seeking is not truth, but rather the metamorphosis of the world into man.

In the United States these days, 'diversity' is a big word and a buzzword.

It is hard for people who have not lived in Los Angeles to realize how radically the Santa Ana figures in the local imagination. ... The wind shows us how close to the edge we are.

The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It's the monster. Men made it, but they can't control it.

I use men's skis because, honestly, they work better for me. They're longer, they're stiffer, they're harder to turn - but at the same time, they're much more stable.

I worked very hard on those movies but there was some creative connection that wasn't being made.