When I was born, they put casts on my legs 'cause I had some kind of dysplasia or something. My legs were all messed up.

People make snap judgments about me that are frequently misguided.

The musical stuff I'd go up for was always funny, sexy, tough-as-nails, heart-of-gold characters.

I've never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.

When you're a dancer who is injured, you are at the bottom of the food chain. We are so replaceable.

I missed New York. Every break I had from the series, I'd fly back to the East Coast just to get back onstage.

I've seen some very beautiful drag queens.

I was not influenced by concerts as a child, but I was very strongly influenced by the ballets I saw.

Artists need to express.

I don't see myself as a diva at all.

Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?

Blessed with so many resources within myself the world was not necessary to me. I could do very well without it.

Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility.

Being in love is not cool!

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.

Isn't three quarters of life a guilty pleasure?

The love of power and the love of liberty are in eternal antagonism.

You just watch somebody you love slowly, slowly disappear and go away.

I apologize for apologizing." "Thank you.

Make your service systems so strong that everyone looks like a genius.

I like to watch the way a model moves in my clothes, the way she gives them life, or if they are wrong, stillborn, the way her life rejects them.