If your only dance experience is the Nutcracker, it will be a shock; hopefully shocking in a good way.

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.

A moral system valid for all is basically immoral.

For precept must be upon precept precept upon precept line upon line line upon line here a little and there a little.

How proud I am to be compared to Oprah. I really admire her. She's a minority woman and she's done all this by herself... I'm very happy to be Oprah with salsa and not Donahue in drag.

Apocalypse is the eye of a needle, through which we pass into a different world.

The life of man in this world is like the life of a fly in a room filled with 100 boys, each armed with a fly-swatter.

I think of myself as more the non-turn-on type. so when I do get turned on, I don’t trust it, I have to investigate the source.

If you want truth you should begin by giving it.

In income tax, there is no case for amnesty.

I doubt that the Lord cares much which honorable vocation you choose. But He does care if you love one another and serve one another.

To me, writing is not a profession. You might as well call living a profession. Or having children. Anything you can't help doing.