I want to see people dance, and I would like to guess what kind of people they are. I don't want to know the recipe for their pasta.

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.

Two things influence one's wisdom: remarkable experience and – evenmuch more – accumulated knowledge.

...and all the people said 'What a shame that he's dead, but wasn't he a most peculiar man?

Wisdom lies in understanding our limitations.

I am who I am and I don't think you can put a label on it.

I guess a drag queen's like an oil painting: You gotta stand back from it to get the full effect.

People quickly forget that people are people.

The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell.

If you visualize a failure, you tend to create the conditions that produce failure. Visualize-believe-and thank God in advance.

Just as there are O.K.-words in conversationship so there are O.K.-people to mention in Newstatesmanship.

I have thought of relocating, somewhere where I'd be more appreciated. California, perhaps. I could teach earthquake preparedness.