When a body moves, it's the most revealing thing. Dance for me a minute, and I'll tell you who you are.

I don't go to a gym, I don't do yoga. I don't do personal training.

I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.

Be. Good. To yourself, to other people, to everything you do. It's a norm of life by which people should try to live. Don't waste time. Be interesting and interested.

The more injuries you get, the smarter you get.

I was not extremely patriotic about Mother Russia. I played their game, pretending. You have to deal with, you know, party people, KGB. Horrifying.

No one is born a dancer. You have to want it more than anything.

No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.

When I see people on the street, I look at how they walk. It's like a signature, a fingerprint.

There comes a moment in a young artist's life when he knows he has to bring something to the stage from within himself. He has to put in something in order to be able to take something.

It doesn't matter how high you lift your leg. The technique is about transparency, simplicity, making an earnest attempt.

There are lots of families who - who make irresponsible purchases. There are also a lot of families who have debt on credit cards because they use those credit cards to pay for medical bills.

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.

I was lucky to be in the right place at the right time. But many others were also in the same place. The difference was that I took action.

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

I suggest that people make an effort to reach out to five people a month. Not just by Facebook or email or Twitter. I'm talking hard-copy note.

When you start reading nonfiction books about piracy, you realize that it's actually just a history of desperate people.

The only way to quieten me is to invite me to a tennis match.

Anne Romaine [ is ]folk singer and a skillful historian, even though she was not formally trained in the field [of Malcolm X].

I value each woman for what she has to offer whether it be charm-beauty-wit-intelligence or humor but warmth is the quality I value most.

I was brought up Irish, where there was room for my own private world.