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If I had an extra 20 or 50 years physically, I could have been the dancer of my dreams. But I never became that dancer.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.
I really reject that kind of comparison that says, Oh, he is the best. This is the second best. There is no such thing.
Before I was through my teens, I had been introduced and exposed to artists who would, in later years, become legendary.
Although I don't gamble in life - I've never played poker - I do gamble on stage. I gamble with myself: 'Can I do this?'
It doesn't matter how high you lift your leg. The technique is about transparency, simplicity, making an earnest attempt.
I go a lot to see young people downtown in little theaters. It's great. If you start somebody's career, it's so exciting.
One of the processes of your life is to constantly break down that inferiority, to constantly reaffirm that I Am Somebody.
Choreography is simpler than you think. Just go and do, and don't think so much about it. Just make something interesting.
The reason dance has held such an ageless magic for the world is that it has been the symbol of the performance of living.
I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people.
Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great.
I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go.
I'm afraid of what happens if this career doesn't pan out, because I have so much invested in it that I can't turn back now.
Dance is an ephemeral, a fleeting art. To describe this momentum, every movement on stage, in words is virtually impossible.
My parents were an ordinary East End family and very supportive - they would have supported me no matter what I wanted to do.
You can be totally involved, you could admire just the shape of or you could be totally emotionally mushed up into the dance.
The Russian people get so insanely close to each other as friends. Their lives are interrelated so much on an everyday basis.
...I loved to dance in studios, but not necessarily on stage. What I loved was to sweat and to feel every single pore open up
Some are less giving, others are more reticent and you actually have to create for them. Others have within them the next step.
Dancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal. The passion and the meaning to their movement can be another thing.
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.
Dance is for everybody. I believe that the dance came from the people and that it should always be delivered back to the people.
People strangely revere dance. They see it as another world, and dancers are somehow mysterious - just because they don't speak.
If you want to understand a nation, look at its dances and listen to its folk songs - don't pay any attention to its politicians.
You've got to be honest with yourself aesthetically about who could you play. You want to artistically be true to that character.
With my work, it's not possible to just cast a production and leave it. I have to nurture the group of dancers to make it happen.
I believe inner beauty is beauty in its truest form. When we nurture ourselves, it brings an inevitable, positive transformation.
Listen, I'm a sweet guy. I'm just intense at work. I have nothing but the end result in mind. My entire career has been like that.
There are as many quality African-American actors and actresses as Caucasians, but it seems that they get a lot more opportunities.
Storyless is not abstract. Two dancers on the stage are enough material for a story; for me, they are already a story in themselves
America fell in love with the innocence of a kid who just was honest, saying, I did the best I could, and I had no formal training.
Constructive criticism is about finding something good and positive to soften the blow to the real critique of what really went on.
Women should set themselves forth attractively but innocently, like a cat. A cat is never a presentation, but an innocent happening.
The thing about addiction is you think you're getting off on people, and you're not, and the only person you're fooling is yourself.
You have to believe in what you are saying. Maybe they will like it or not but they cannot contest that what you are saying is true.
In a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate strength.
To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that.
I want to see people dance, and I would like to guess what kind of people they are. I don't want to know the recipe for their pasta.
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.
Sometimes you get yourselves in situations where you don't realize people are actually testing you. People are actually provoking you.
I am a hopeless romantic who falls in lust and gets in trouble. I love my work and am very productive, yet I always find time to play.
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.
I like to go to anybody else's birthday, and if I'm invited I'm a good guest. But I never celebrate my birthdays. I really don't care.
Making dances is an act of progress; it is an act of growth, an act of music, an act of teaching, an act of celebration, an act of joy.
In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better.
People think I got rich out of 'Swan ,but I didn't at all: it's the royalties from 'Oliver' and 'My Fair Lady' that have kept me going.
Celtic Tiger portrays the oppression of a people and the tiger symbolises the awakening of their Spirit and their struggle for freedom.
A good show makes me happy. It's a great sensation. If you could capture a great atmosphere and do it every time, that would be amazing.
Stay hungry to become the best that you can be. Never be satisfied with the level of artistry you've attained. You can always be better.