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Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important.
I never liked dance photography; it's very flat, and dance photography in the studio looks very contrived.
I try to carve my own way so the actors who come after me will say, "I want to do it like Columbus did it."
The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener.
The pointes for girls, I always say, have to be like an elephant's trunk; strong and yet flexible and soft.
Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
Dancers are stripped enough onstage. You don't have to know more about them than they've given you already.
It will take very sophisticated marketing to achieve our aim of bringing more black people into the theater.
I just like to take my time, have a cup of tea and read the paper. I don't like starting the day in a panic.
I've been in love with the cinema since childhood and it's a fantasy of mine to appear in a Hollywood movie.
Everybody who knows me is like, 'Dude, you've got to chill out.' I can't not work, given where I want to be.
I would rather be having a burger and beers with my mates but I can't do that when I know I've got to dance.
I don't drink milk, and I don't eat bread, pasta or rice. But I eat a lot of meat, chicken, fish and salads.
We can't stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
The creative process is not controlled by a switch you can simply turn on or off; it's with you all the time.
Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.
I would love to be a dad. For the longest time, Ive wanted kids, but you have to have the right setup, right?
I get speeding ticket like everybody else. If the restaurant is full I'm waiting in line like everybody else.
Walk into a room, knowing you are somebody, somebody special. Don't ever let them smash that or pull you down.
Creating content, creating art, material, being a job creator - it's all very, very important. Very important.
I would love to be a dad. For the longest time, I've wanted kids, but you have to have the right setup, right?
Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.
I miss horribly those couple of hours before the performance when you get into the theater and you see people.
For all of those willing to help me start a family, I am flattered. I will let you know when I need your help.
I will never forget my humble beginnings as a Laker Girl. It was probably one of the most fun jobs I ever had.
Everybody has their own path. I just believe that with conviction and discipline you can make anything happen.
Do my movement and my thinking have an intimate connection? First of all, I don't think my body doesn't think.
Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
With films, you completely immerse yourself in a character, get into who they are, live it and then release it.
I can say with full sincerity that I am happy. I'm happy because I'm doing what I love and I'm not selling out.
Dances have a second and third life. You feel they are never ready. They always have a chance for another life.
Directing is very close to choreography; you deal with space, time, emotions, lighting, making beautiful images.
Your body actually reminds you about your age and your injuries - the body has a stronger memory than your mind.
In any art form, in Hollywood or in music, there is a handful of people who really, you know, move the envelope.
Be a creator, not just sitting on the sidelines waiting for someone to call you into the game or call our number.
My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man.
You see, when weaving a blanket, an Indian woman leaves a flaw in the weaving of that blanket to let the soul out.
You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing.
Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music.
It's horrible how money and fame can make you acceptable while, if you're not famous or rich, you're not acceptable.
I didn't know if I could act, but I knew I could be a great ballet dancer, and Balanchine put out the carpet for me.
Whoever finds that they're not prepared to give their all should draw the inescapable conclusion from that and stop.
My dancing is not an attempt to interpret life in the literary sense. It is an affirmation of life through movement.
We are all of us, unique - each a unique pattern of creativity and if we do not fulfill it, it is lost for all time.
I'm an impatient person in many respects. I like to put myself in uncomfortable situations. It forces me to deliver.
Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.
Everything in dancing is style, allusion, the essence of many thoughts and feelings. The abstraction of many moments.
I know when I am on stage and I'm kind of on the right track - hopefully most of the time. But a lot of time I'm not.
I am now obsessed with the technology of the body. I think it's the most technologically literate thing that we have.
There is a force, a quickness that is translated through you into action. If you block it, the world will not have it.