I want to make people feel intensely alive. I'd rather have them against me than indifferent.

Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.

Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.

The body says what words cannot.

Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it.

I feel that the essence of dance is the expression of man--the landscape of his soul. I hope that every dance I do reveals something of myself or some wonderful thing a human can be.

The body is a sacred garment. It's your first and last garment; it is what you enter life in and what you depart life with, and it should be treated with honor.

Dance is the hidden langauge of the soul, of the body.

Misery is a communicable disease.

Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.

No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a strange, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

God loves all of us.

Just because you're beautiful they think you can't act.... I've got a lot more to prove.

We didn't believe in fate, but we believed in serendipity. We felt very lucky.

Because I didn't go to film school, you learn so much from a lot of creative artists.

Captain Shotover: How much does your soul eat? Ellie: Oh, a lot. It eats music and pictures and books and mountains and lakes and beautiful things to wear and nice people to be with.

Nothing spoils idle pleasure like too much awareness

When I’ve been unsuccessful, I’ve been controlled. When I’ve been successful, I’ve been in control.

It has seemed to me that most people are generally good, in every race and in every country where I have been.

Only when I am by seawater can I truly breathe, to say nothing of my ability to think.

It's a nice bonus but, you know, I have to pay taxes too. (after winning the Grand Slam Cup.