You've got to break through this idea of being light as a ballerina. The heavier you'll feel, the lighter you'll look.

The nature of my compulsion was such that I danced in my sleep. The entire household was sometimes awakened by loud thumping sounds coming from my room.

When you are on stage you are having an affair with three thousand people.

Fortunately for children, the uncertainties of the present always give way to the enchanted possibilities of the future.

The dance goes on forever. So shall I. So shall we.

As unnatural as dancing is, you have to find a natural way to do the unnatural.

As soon as you become afraid to make a fool of yourself, you're in trouble. I decided I may as well just see if I can live with myself making millions of mistakes and learn something from it.

... each action taken in this world has its echo in the heart.

I know my body. What happened is that I got so caught up in the applause I forgot how I should dance. All my life I've been what others wanted - in dancing and in life. Now I'm doing it my way.

Ballet is a riddle of means and ends.

I danced with passion to spite the music.

We are soon approaching a refined holiday, "Merry Mas, " where Christ will be taken out of its context.

Sometimes the hardest part of growing it is not the responsabilities you might get, but it is to lose the essence of love, and never find the way back to where it was.

Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.

Nothing good has ever been written about the full rotation of a racecar about its roll axis.

Work? I never worked a day in my life. I always loved what I was doing, had a passion for it.

Her voice was like a line from an old black-and-white Jean-Luc Godard movie, filtering in just beyond the frame of my consciousness.

Freedom means more than just struggling to survive.

Let's do what you fear most That from which you recoil But which still makes your eyes moist

Let us then blend everything: love, religion, genius, with sunshine, perfume, music, and poetry.

I'd like to play passionate women, but no one will let me.