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Dance saves lives.
Herb was a great husband.
I ripped both hamstrings.
I enjoy YouTube like everyone else.
The only thing I don't have is enough time.
I'm happiest with my family and with working.
Bob taught me extraordinary discipline and love.
The human spirit is the greatest thing on earth.
The joy is in the work. The travel is the dues you pay.
I have a wonderful husband, sportswriter Peter Talbert.
I'm used to things not coming in the packages you expect.
I tend to be loyal to the people who have been loyal to me.
Bob's work gleaned from hoofing, from vaudeville, from ballet.
Creativity is not a mysterious thing, it's a historical thing.
You know, theater is either heaven or hell. There's no middle.
I teach jazz dancing and I can be a guest teacher whenever I want.
It's a good idea to have your career intact and then have children.
If you're a woman and you're working, you're already set up for conflict.
The guest artists pass on not only their experiences but also the pitfalls.
The Fosse technique really does have to have a delicacy and an elegance to it.
I think of myself, basically, as a very practical person in black bugle beads.
I wanted a way to pass on all the gifts, all the instruction that I've been given.
Dance is such a wonderful, universal expression, even if the bugle beads are wrong.
The one good thing about dance is that if you are truly yourself, then it's all good.
It's highly collaborative, musical theater, so everybody has got to somehow get along.
It's to your advantage to work your brain as well as your body. The rest is up to fate.
I came to New York with $500. That was a lot of money because my allowance was 50 cents.
The reason why I believe faith is important for a person is that it teaches you to trust.
People think I'm accident-prone when they see me on crutches, but I do eight shows a week.
I put all my energy and thoughtful commitment to everything that I do. There is no other way!
One of the good things about accomplishing something is that it helps your self-image of yourself.
'Dancin' was exceptionally significant. I was in an original Broadway show and nominated for a Tony.
I had a small speaking part in 'Coco.' Katharine Hepburn said to me, 'You can act.' Wasn't that nice?
I would love to be proud of my life, to look back and say, I did a good job, that I strive for quality.
Show dancing stood very well on its own a long time ago with dancers like Bill Robinson and Marilyn Miller.
One of the reasons I like to teach is that I like to pass things on. That's an unspoken law of show business.
I like to stretch myself, and playing a dance-hall hostess is quite a stretch, but I feel comfortable with it.
Chorus Line' opened things up a bit. Any show that's successful does that. But 'Chorus Line' was about dancers.
For theater I am like a long-distance runner. For movies I am a sprinter! Same playing field, different approach.
Broadway is so defeating for the most part that it doesn't encourage people to be as tenacious as they should be.
I would not correct dancers if I was performing, because I don't believe in performers correcting other performers.
To meet someone who you look up to like they are gods and goddesses, sometimes that person can disappoint you a bit.
Acting, like wine, gets better as time goes on. Singing gets better after a certain age. The dancer peaks at 35 or 40.
One of the things that made Bob so unique and wonderful is that he had a genuine style, like Balanchine, like de Mille.
It was sad to leave 'Pippin' because it was a kind of inspirational turning point in my life. But it was time to move on.
You can't stand still in one spot, no matter how good it is. You have to do something new, keep trying. That's everything.
People forget that the same man who did 'Star 80' and 'All that Jazz' also did 'Pardon Me Miss But I've Never Been Kissed.'
You have no control over how tall you are or how long your legs are, but you do have control over how much you concentrate.
That's very important when you're doing an ensemble piece, that you give it a variety of levels so it doesn't get too homogenous.
Pippin' was, I guess you can say, the break that everyone needs and you hope that you have the talent to back up the opportunity.