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Food does not rank high on my list. I eat to live, and I'm very particular about my diet. It's strictly low fat diet for me.
Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.
If I hear an amazing piece of music, I can't help but think of ideas, choreography, and everything that comes along with it.
Frank Loesser was a beautiful soul. I didn't know how great he was when I met him, but I just adored him. He was a sweet man.
I can go into any working circumstance and, simply, I'm prepared to deal with the work. It was a long, hard lesson I learned.
Most beautiful dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren't much smarter.
Failing, and learning from it, is necessary. Unil you've done it, you're missing an important piece of your creative arsenal.
Nothing is more terrifying to me, really, than the status quo. I'll make mistakes before I keep doing something the same way.
I never taught people where to step on '2', because when I learned how to dance there was no '2'. We just danced to the music.
I often take a brand-new suit or hat and throw it up against the wall a few times to get that stiff, square newness out of it.
At 14 I discovered girls. At that time dancing was the only way you could put your arm around the girl. Dancing was courtship.
We've got to show that blacks and whites are treated equally in the army. Otherwise, what's the point of waging war on Hitler?
The youth coming up is interested in dance now, and they're coming to the shows. That's a blessing for those of us who create.
I did take the blows [of life], but I took them with my chin up, in dignity, because I so profoundly love and respect humanity.
Whether it is Jimmy Slyde or Lon Chaney or Gregory Hines, their dance shows what they experienced, what they had to go through.
I often say that in making dances I can make a world where I think things are done morally, done democratically, done honestly.
In dreams, anything can be anything, and everybody can do. We can fly, we can turn upside down, we can transform into anything.
I am bit sending messages with my feet. All I ever wanted was not to come up empty. I did it for the dough and the old applause.
What am I most ashamed of in my life? Not keeping my promise to my sister and being too scared of America to attend her funeral.
Every actor. every director, everybody needs an Oscar. You have to have that little statue in Hollywood or else you are nothing.
The dance world is too small in lots of ways - it's too intense, it rattles around itself, and it needs exposing to other ideas.
In the future, I will make certain that I commit to projects so there's enough breathing space for me to have an emotional life.
A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet. I'm beginning to think that walls are very unhealthy things.
One of the best gifts you can give to an animal is a donation of a blanket to your local animal shelter during the winter months.
I think, often times, it's the audience that suffers when a show isn't given the opportunity to have a beginning, middle and end.
Aren't all ballets sexy? I think they should be. I can think of nothing more kinky than a prince chasing a swan around all night.
Every day that you live without proper breathing is another little step of submitting to stress and deterioration of your health.
I have no desire to prove anything by my work. I have never used it as an outlet or as a means of expressing myself. I just dance.
I didn't want to move or act like a rich man. I wanted to dance in a pair of jeans. I wanted to dance like the man in the streets.
Whether it's Cyd Charisse and Fred Astaire or 'West Side Story,' see it on the big screen. That's the way we should appreciate it.
If I weren't a Christian Scientist, and I saw "Trog" advertised on a marquee across the street, I'd think I'd contemplate suicide.
I said, 'I'll give myself two years. If I can't support myself as an actress within two years, then I'll go back to choreography.'
You have to stay in shape for dance. I don't want to be too skinny, but I don't want to be overweight. I want to be in the middle.
Fortunately, dance has been what's interested me all my life. So whether I am faced with incapacities or not, it still absorbs me.
I'm often asked, 'Where do you get your ideas?' ...It's like asking, 'Where do you find air to breathe?' Ideas are all around you.
I'm involved in some action scenes, so they'll train me for that. I'll be working with my acting coach to prepare for my character.
I come from a dancing background, and I know it's stereotypical, but I would dance because I wasn't comfortable speaking to people.
I want to be part of movies that have important and interesting subjects but are not depressing and are rather satirical and funny.
To express what is the most moral, healthful and beautiful in art this is the mission of the dancer, and to this I dedicate my life.
People know that I always do my hair and makeup, but I also love doing crafts. I love getting a blank canvas and painting something.
Dancing in Tijuana when I was 13 — that was my 'summer camp.' How else do you think I could keep up with Fred Astaire when I was 19?
I did a production called 'Classical Savion,' where I did some Shostakovich, Mendelssohn, Bach, Vivaldi, and all these great pieces.
I've never looked at what I do as show business, I guess, because of my connection to the art and how I was introduced to the dance.
I don't want to abandon one work for the other, and I don't think I need to sacrifice anything to put my all into either one of them.
Just remember... it doesn't matter how long you have known each other.. all that matters is that he has kept you smiling from day one
Short people have long faces, and long people have short faces. Big people have little humor, and little people have no humor at all.
Dancers use their bodies in extraordinary ways, so we are chronically pre-arthritic, because of how we use our muscles and our bones.
Just because I was married to Aly Khan, people think I'm rich. Well, I'm not. I never got a dime from Aly or from any of my husbands.
I'm always inspired by music, things of that nature. Just life in general. I'm happy to be waking up and having another chance at it.
I've always felt compelled to explore range, because, as far as I know, we're only here once. So let's see how much we can encompass.