I've played American, Italian, Greek, French. I've been really lucky that way.

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.

Everything about her was sweet, pale like honey. You would not have been surprised to see a bee caught in the tangles of that yellow hair.

The rooms were very still while the pages were softly turned and the winter sunshine crept in to touch the bright heads and serious faces with a Christmas greeting.

Commit your work to the Lord, and then your plans will succeed.” (Proverbs 16:3).

The more I see of other countries the more I love my own.

The rise or fall of wages is common to all states of society, whether it be the stationary, the advancing, or the retrograde state.

The marvelous rebellion of man at all signs reading "Keep Off.

But me and my sister knew all the Doris Day and Frank Sinatra songs, too.

The great high of winning Wimbledon lasts for about a week. You go down in the record book, but you don't have anything tangible to hold on to. But having a baby -- there isn't any comparison.

this lifeless paper, cruel imposter, was the only to take her with him

Dada is the sun, Dada is the egg. Dada is the Police of the Police.