One is born to be a great dancer.

I don't want people who want to dance, I want people who have to dance.

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.

The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener.

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.

I don't want people who want to dance; I want people who have to dance