People tell me I'm dancing better than ever. I don't know what happened, but I have new enthusiasm and more endurance.

Even the ears must dance.

You cannot dance an arabesque in 'Swan Lake' and 'Nutcracker' the same way.

Technical things are getting more mechanical. Take 'Swan Lake,' the Black Swan pas de deux. Now, my goodness, they're turning not just 32 fouettes - but double or triple pirouettes.

A real ballerina must fill her space with her own personality.

The expression should come from within oneself, conveying the spiritual - something between earth and heaven. And if one runs, one should not seem to touch the ground.

To look back all the time is boring. Excitement lies in tomorrow.

It's not possible to be perfect - you can always do something better. I'm never proud of what I've done. Sometimes, I'm not ashamed.

I recently learn a new word: insatiable. That's me.

It is the body, subject to the harmony of the steps it is executing, which speaks. And it speaks to the heart in as direct a language as does music.

Dance involves physicality, it involves spirituality and even brains.

Stop talking about it and just WRITE!

Qui me amat, amet et canem meum. (Who loves me will love my dog also.)

Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does.

I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life.

If a scene is longer than three pages, it better be for a good reason.

I want to build spires in their minds and dance shadows through like marionettes, chased by whispers and hints of the unspeakable.

We're making tin gods out of those poor buffoons in Hollywood; I dote on movies and appreciate the scanty art therein but I consider the profession about the most debased and debasing I know.

The Kumars... played on five continents, and even when I came up with the idea I was slightly surprised that no one else had.

Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt