“An artist should… bring into the world some vision. Dancers should ask, “What is their work in the service of?””

Art – when it is really doing what it should do – teaches abstract thinking; it teaches teamwork; it teaches people to actually think about things that they cannot see.

Movement begins to negotiate the distance between the brain and the body and it can be surprising what we learn about each other.

The body is a reservoir of all sorts of tensions and dark forces. And it’s also the potential source of amazing energy. This thing wants to live. It is a powerful engine.

The brain (is) a reservoir of images, dreams, fears, associations, language. And its potential we can’t even begin to understand.

Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.

You make one good shot and it brings you back the next time. With writing a long book there has to be at least one bit that has some magic in it that you can go back to.

We seem to be keeping old fans and are bringing on new fans that are teenagers. I think that is amazing.

I am often thought of as being remarkably bright, and yet my brains, more often than not, are busily devising new and interesting ways of bringing my enemies to sudden, gagging, writhing, agonizing death.

What is a husband? He is the one who, with a touch, can bring back the starlight and glow of years long ago. At least he hopes he can – don’t disappoint him.

What is commonly called a pest is nature’s way of bringing back into balance an imbalance that man has created.

There are some days when you don’t feel like being Alan Cumming.

The idea was to restore the rule of law, to bring order to a chaotic situation.