Take your work seriously, but never yourself.

Life offstage has sometimes been a wilderness of unpredictables in an unchoreographed world.

Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike

Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.

The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.

Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.