You have to love what you do to want to do it everyday.

Oh, you young people act like old men. You have no fun.

I love performing. I shall perform until the day I die.

Reflection is not something you have a lot of time for.

What we want from modern dance is courage and audacity.

I love fashion, obviously, but I hate trying on clothes.

You dance love, and you dance joy, and you dance dreams.

It's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer.

You don't get into the mood to create – it's discipline.

Limits are a secret blessing, and bounty can be a curse.

Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want.

It means a lot when people understand what I'm going for.

Can't act. Can't sing. Slightly bald. Can dance a little.

We weren't pushing Black is beautiful. We just showed it.

The most essential thing in dance discipline is devotion.

There's a mass of places, really, where the idea started.

I may be rancid butter, but I'm on your side of the bread.

Sure, I'd play an ape if they asked me. Maurice Evans did.

People come to see beauty, and I dance to give it to them.

I'm not expressing anything. I'm presenting people moving.

I started as a drummer. The feet are an extension of that.

I was born into the studio and all I really know is dance.

The dancer will not belong to a nation but to all humanity.

I wasn't really naked. I simply didn't have any clothes on.

Losing is not a good feeling, but I don't ever lose anyway.

Anything can feed you, depending on the way you look at it.

Dancing is like bank robbery, it takes split-second timing.

Acting requires risk, and that's what feeling vulnerable is.

I'll always dance for fun, but for work? I've done it, dude.

I had always seen myself as a star; I wanted to be a galaxy.

I find the aesthetics of the 20th century hopelessly barren.

We don't need to illustrate music; music illustrates itself.

I used to beg for auditions. Now, they're being thrown at me.

I made movies with some very nice people, experienced actors.

If I'm home alone, I just dance... it's my own little secret.

Everyone has different talents, different styles and talents.

Learn to breathe, learn to speak, but first... learn to feel.

I don't think Ed Sullivan had anything to do with Carib Song.

Writing is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent elimination.

I think of dance as a constant transformation of life itself.

The formal education that I received made little sense to me.

Whom the gods wish to destroy, they give unlimited resources.

I've survived inattention. I hope to God I survive attention.

I'm not satisfied sitting in just the world of abstract work.

In film, you are a totally different person than in the video.

Every experience I've had in my life is a resource in my body.

Style is the feather in the arrow, not the feather in the cap.

Find your happiest colours - the ones that make you feel good.

The only way to lose weight is to check it as airline baggage.

Seeing 'Revelations' made me want to be a professional dancer.

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