So dancing was not something I had a great desire to do.

I'm thought of as a cool, unemotional dancer, but inside I'm not.

I loved tests because it was another form of competing, a healthy competition.

You're never more of an individual than when you're a happy team player.

I loved the stage not because it provided an escape from myself or my humdrum life but because when the curtain went up I could be whoever I wanted to be, and that was true freedom - to be myself.

Once I started dancing, I was not the spoiled brat or the rebellious child that I was as a child.

The arts are the hospitals for our souls.

I set as my goal to be the best dancer I could be. Not the most famous, or the highest paid dancer, just the best I could be. Out of this discipline came great freedom and calm.

On the other hand, I think it is wonderful for everyone to take ballet classes, at any age. It gives you a discipline, it gives you a place to go. It gives you some control in your life.

As soon as I hear music, something in me starts to vibrate.

When you get on stage, you can be anything. You are removed from reality in a way, the real world.

Why this candle?Why this cake?The day of my birth is not today.I was born when you said, 'Hey.

Innocence still lives within our hearts and the child within each of us knows right from wrong.

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

Je pensais de meme que notre jeunesse etait finie et le bonheur manqué. I thought too that our youth was over and we had failed to find happiness.

War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.

The collective dream is the hypnosis of social conditioning. Only sages, psychotics & geniuses manage to break free.

Greatness is in the preparation, not in the performance.

Developing your own style became something very interesting, very important to me.

I don't even remember the season. I just remember walking between them and feeling for the first time that I belonged somewhere.

I used to drink a lot of beer, but I was just getting fat as can be. Now that we've had a little success, I can afford to drink wine.