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You need these experiences. Just know that sometimes, the director has a specific look in mind.

Racism tears down your insides so that no matter what you achieve, you're not quite up to snuff.

When I see the attention movie stars get, it doesn't make me want to be in that position at all.

In France, ballet is on TV ... It's on the eight-o'clock news. It's a cool thing to be a dancer.

I'm thrilled at the moment because our audiences, you know, they... the demographic is 50% male.

Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.

I started dancing before I could talk. Other babies learn to stand and then walk - I just danced.

I'm not an egomaniac like a lot of people say. But I am the world's best dancer, that's for sure.

I want to do exactly what I want to do. I'd rather gamble on the box office than beg for a grant.

Astaire was not a sexual animal, but he made his partners look so extraordinarily related to him.

I have been working up until recently with Neil Simon, who has been adapting the character to me.

I love doing what I do. I'm a born mentor. I've launched so many people's careers. I worked hard.

Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how... The artists never entirely knows.

Since I was a kid, I've been a dancer, and, of course, I'll always be a dancer till the day I die.

Are you a stingy breather? Well, don't be. Be extravagant with you breathing and come fully alive.

For me, choreography is a process of physical thinking. It's very much in mind as well as in body.

With any project there's one or two things that you really want to do and that's going to crack it.

When I'm alone, I work sometimes with music, sometimes without and sometimes just listening to NPR.

The cool part of being an entertainer is getting the opportunity to get your feet wet in all areas.

No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.

The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

For me, a dancer is part of an artist’s entertainment - “backup dancer” isn’t even in my vocabulary.

For me, a dancer is part of an artist's entertainment - 'backup dancer' isn't even in my vocabulary.

Now there is in a way a renaissance of modern dance - suddenly, it is more respected and discovered.

He is a male butterfly without the wings - the same kind of grace of a very young horse, so angular.

To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.

I love reading. I'm very much into history, novels, biographies and I have a wide range of thrillers.

Before a long-haul flight, buy yourself a cheap, big, comfortable pillow. It makes a huge difference.

When you go to meetings or auditions and you fail to prepare, prepare to fail. It is simple but true.

If you live in the elite world of dance, you find yourself in a world rife with racism. Let's face it.

Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it.

I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography.

If your only dance experience is the Nutcracker, it will be a shock; hopefully shocking in a good way.

Nothing is ever too expensive if it furthers the repertoire and artistic standards of a dance company.

He [Astaire] was not a sexual animal, but he made his partners look so extraordinarily related to him.

I welcome him like I welcome cold sores. He's from England, he's angry and he's got Mad Power Disease.

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

Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down... and kissed him. And the world cracked open.

There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.

I don't like myself. I'm not vain at all. I hate looking at myself - I always think I look ugly. Honest.

Put a man and a girl on stage and there is already a story; a man and two girls, there's already a plot.

My job, I think, is the hardest job out of all the judges because I am the only one that is a performer.

We moved, and there was a golden era in the '40s when we were so conscious of who we were as Australians.

I no longer need to have what I see as the surface of the dance so connected to the underlying structure.

Life isn't about the number of times you're knocked down, it's about the number of times you get back up.

Nobody else in the world has a form like the Native American musical, and Americans should be very proud.

The producers felt that 24 would be good for the audience, to really get to know who these 12 and 12 are.

'Saturday Night Fever,' Paula Abdul, 'Fame,' Debbie Allen... all affected me and the generation before me.

Artist development is something that I've been passionate about from my days at Uptown and Motown Records.

A lot of the people who have come to know the company in the last few years will not have seen this piece.

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