“I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.”

What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.

I’d rather an audience like me than dislike me, but I’d rather they disliked me than be apathetic, because that is the kiss of death.

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.

You don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.

I don’t think in art there is ever a precedent; each moment is a new one and terrifying and threatening and bursting with hope.

The unique must be fulfilled.

You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open.

Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.

Discipline is liberation.

People have asked me why I chose to be a dancer. I did not choose. I was chosen to be a dancer, and with that, you live all your life.

Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul’s weather to all who can read it.

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.

Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.

What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.

The gesture is the thing truly expressive of the individual – as we think so will we act.

Misery is a communicable disease.

Fitness has always been one of the top priorities in my life because that’s the way I grew up, with soccer being the sport of choice.

Authenticity is a collection of choices that we have to make every day. It’s about the choice to show up and be real. The choice to be honest. The choice to let our true selves be seen.

I care most about how people live their lives, what choices they make, and how they get the best from themselves.

Have the courage and strength to be yourself. Because there is no other choice. Do you have a choice of being somebody else?

Sometimes people rehabilitate and reform their lives into being a great person when they make awful choices as children.

The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.

The basic thing is that the government has no business making that choice for a woman.

For my life, I need to make my own choices.