In France, ballet is on TV ... It's on the eight-o'clock news. It's a cool thing to be a dancer.

Directing is very close to choreography; you deal with space, time, emotions, lighting, making beautiful images.

Most dancers have no awareness of how they look; half of them think theyre fat. There is anorexia in the ballet world; there are those things.

When I see the attention movie stars get, it doesn't make me want to be in that position at all.

Know what you are talking about.

You always use that word "remember", ' said Milena. 'You say, "remember, team". You never tell us to think.

I'm a child of immigrants. That is the history of this country. Immigration is good and important for our country. Legal immigration needs to really be modernized.

The government doesn't want you to use YOUR drugs, they want you to use THEIR drugs.

The main accomplishment of almost all organized protests is to annoy people who are not in them.

If I knew where the good songs came from, I’d go there more often. It’s a mysterious condition. It’s much like the life of a Catholic nun. You’re married to a mystery.

The essence of being a gentleman is to understand the way you're supposed to treat a respectable woman.

Forgiveness does not replace justice.

The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances.

The Ego is an exquisite instrument. Enjoy it, use it--just don't get lost in it.