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I repeat the wake-up, the workout, the quick shower, the breakfast of three hard-boiled egg whites and a cup of coffee, the hour to make my morning calls and deal with correspondence, the two hours of stretching and working out ideas by myself in the studio ... That's my day, every day. A dancer's life is all about repetition.

I run on the road long before I dance under the lights.

I saw the dance as a vision of ineffable power. A man could, with dignity and a towering majesty, dance. Not mince, cavort, do "fancy dancing" or "showoff" steps. No: Dance as Michelangelo's visions dance and as the music of Bach dances.

I see the dance being used as a means of express what is too deep, too fine for words.

"Is it how she moves, or how she looks?" I say it's loneliness suspended to our own like grappling hooks, And as long as she's got noise, she's fine. But I could teach her how I learned to dance when the music's ended.

I started Ballet at a very young age and I was captivated immediately. It became my voice, means to overcome those final barriers to expressing myself. Letting myself fly free. The more experience I have, the more I get to know myself.

I swear to God, if you saw me when I am by myself in the woods, I'm a lunatic. I sing, I dance.

I think differently, I think it's about reaching everybody on every different plane and every different level, and if I could remix the song and do a dance remix, that's great. If I could do a classical version, that'll be great too. It's all just about expression.

It doesn't matter how high you lift your leg. The technique is about transparency, simplicity, making an earnest attempt.

I think Balanchine and Robbins talk to God and when I call, he's out to lunch.

I think I can beat Usher on the dance floor.

I think it was important that I learned to love to dance eventually for its own sake, as opposed to wanting to be a ballerina.

I think if you are going to be a singer, you should sing. If you are going to be a dancer, you should dance. If you are going to do a combination of the two, you should make it very clear when you are singing and very clear when you are dancing.

I think it's useful to experience other types of dance and other cultures, and the life of a classical dancer these days is certainly not all tutus! So experience of other dance forms is a good idea.

I think hip hop is a dance music that's rebellious by nature.

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

I think those who say that you can't tango if you are not Argentine are mistaken. Tango was an immigrant music... so it does not have a nationality. It's only passport is feeling.

I think that probably the moments of discovery do come from a place that is not totally organized. Order is something that we already know about. Discoveries are in a place we don't already know about.

It is not so much upon the number of exercises, as the care with which they are done, that progreses and skill depend.

It is a fact that all the ballet's fundamental dance steps are derived from the folk dances of Western Europe.

It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.

It is extremely arrogant and very foolish to think that you can ever outwit your audience.

It is interesting that Hindus, when they speak of the creation of the universe do not call it the work of God, they call it the play of God, the Vishnu lila, lila meaning play. And they look upon the whole manifestation of all the universes as a play, as a sport, as a kind of dance — lila perhaps being somewhat related to our word lilt

It is difficult to see the great dance effects as they happen, to see them accurately, catch them fast in memory. It is even more difficult to verbalize them for critical discussion. The particular essence of a performance, its human sweep of articulate rhythm in space and in time has no specific terminology to describe it by.

It removes the limitations of his body, extinguishes his consciousness, and pours the divine spirit into him. The whirl dance is the purest form of dance devotion.

It is through strength of technique that the body stays in possession of music.

It is the silence between sounds that create Rhythm.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months successively without being at any ball of any description, and no material injury accrue either to body or mind.

It requires less character to discover the faults of others, than to tolerate them.

It's the one who won't be taken that cannot seem to give, and the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live.

It's always been my dream to do a dance scene with Anthony Hopkins.

It's a wonderful thing to be able to create your own world whenever you want to.

It seems to be hard wired into our pleasure centres to move to music.

It's hard to dance if you just lost your wallet. Whoa Where's my wallet But, hey this song is funky.

It's like the time capsule with everything in it. Or like the seed that when you plant it, becomes the enormous tree with leaves and fruit. Everybody was in that little seed, and so everything can open. The tree of dance is like that. It just takes a long, long time to blossom.

It's not just for its influence on us, but to knowknow that we can play a part in it, to understand the influence that we have outside our own existence.

It's not magic! It's physics. The speed of the turn is what keeps you upright. It's like a spinning top.

It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance. It is the dream afraid of waking that never takes the chance.

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

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.

It's what I always wanted to do, to show the laughter, the fun, the joy of dance.

It takes ten years, usually, to make a dancer. It takes ten years of handling the instrument, handling the material with which you are dealing, for you to know it completely.

It's very easy to become selfish and narrow-minded and see ballet as the only thing in life, but there's lots more.

It takes time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.

It was then that my religious consciousness emerged to flower years afterward into definite forms of religious dancing in which there is no sense of division between spirit and flesh, religion and art.

I very much like dance and dancers.

I've done everything but tap dance across the table.

I've never understood the point of ecstasy. I think if I wanted to get dehydrated and jump about with a load of people I've never met before I could go to a Methodist barn dance.

I've relaxed my feelings about other companies performing my works. I have never in principle been against my ballets being danced by other companies. Rather, it is that we lack the time, space and money to insure that they are done well. To me, the only sin is mediocrity.