In a ballet company, you're trying to create unison and uniform when you're in a cour de ballet.

Success is not easy and I think everyone should know that hard work and perseverance and being open to giving back are so much more powerful than stepping all over people to get to the top.

You can do anything you want, even if you are being told negative things.stay strong and find motivation.

The best piece of advice that I remember probably on a daily basis is to accept everything about me that is different. That is what makes me special.

You can dream big and it doesn't matter what you look like, where you come from.

My body is very different from most of the dancers I dance with. My hair is different than most I dance with. But I didn't let that stop me. Black girls rock and can be ballerinas.

The path to your success is not as fixed and inflexible as you think.

You're always working to improve, and you're always being critiqued on your next performance. It's not about what you've done. There's always room to grow.

I just try to approach every opportunity on stage, as if it's my first time and my last time.

I feel like I represent every young dancer, and even non-dancer, who felt they were not accepted by the ballet world. I'd like to think that they can see themselves in me.

There are muscles that we have in our feet that most human beings don't even know that we have. The strength that we have is so detailed.

In the yard of the inn, Daffy Cadwaladyr introduced himself. "Short for Davyd, " he said pleasantly.The Londoner looked as if she'd never heard a sillier name in her life.

if you don't concentrate on what you are doing then the thing that you are doing is not what you are thinking.

No Roman ever died in contemplation over a geometrical diagram.

It is more important to keep the horse going hard than to always play the exact notes.

I've got keys to crap I've never owned. You put all my keys together I could be a high school janitor tonight.

One can only learn by teaching.

I love to sleep. My astrological sign is the sloth.

When I work, I really try to get absorbed in the character. Unless I want to do something playful with the camera, I'm not too worried about where the camera is or positions.

No matter how smart you are, you spend much of your day being an idiot.

When I go on stage I am just, I don't make any attempts to do anything more than just what makes me comfortable.