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.

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.

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.

I think that training is the key, definitely, and I devoted my life to it.

It is vital that people "count their blessings:" to appreciate what they possess without having to undergo its actual loss.

Love is something that never goes out of style.

In the mid- to late '60s to the mid-'70s, when I was a student, there was a major change in the thinking about what art can be and how art is made.

The fun you get from golf is in direct ratio to the effort you don't put into it.

I have no regrets. I don't believe in looking back. What I am proudest of? Working really hard... and achieving as much as I could.

I was trained to be an actor, not a star.

I know I just need to be me.

It's very clear that we are going to have 10 different [abortion] laws and that we are going to have these laws made by judges

I've never had anything but the freedom to do what I wanted just as long as it made me happy.

However statistically improbable the entity you seek to explain by invoking a designer, the designer himself has got to be at least as improbable. God is the Ultimate Boeing 747