 Dancers are stripped enough onstage. You don't have to know more about them than they've given you already. |
| I really reject that kind of comparison that says, Oh, he is the best. This is the second best. There is no such thing. |
| I have been very lucky to work in so many new ballets, but that is what a dancer's work is. |
| I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography. |
| I was not extremely patriotic about Mother Russia. I played their game, pretending. You have to deal with, you know, party people, KGB. Horrifying. |
| Astaire was not a sexual animal, but he made his partners look so extraordinarily related to him. |
| No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business. |
| It's what's left in life, to work with interesting people. |
| I cannot belong to a nonprofit organization because when you receive grants, you have to make such great compromises with your artistic plans. |
| To achieve some depth in your field requires a lot of sacrifices. Want to or not, you're thinking about what you're doing in life-in my case, dancing. |
| I want to do exactly what I want to do. I'd rather gamble on the box office than beg for a grant. |
| Dancing is my obsession. My life. |
| People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience. |
| I get speeding ticket like everybody else. If the restaurant is full I'm waiting in line like everybody else. |
| Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great. |
| To walk across the street is a risk. |
| You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing. |
| I am not the first straight dancer or the last. |
| Working is living to me. |
| It's weird when you see pieces of choreography that were done for you 15 or 20 years ago and now they are being done by another dance company. |
