Dancing is creating a sculpture that is visible only for a moment.

I went through my first big breakup, with a boyfriend who I had been with for more than two years. He had been one of my dancers, and it was my first love and his.

I don’t think that’s necessarily true. I feel the same way about exotic dancers.

I know exactly what Einstein meant when he said, “Dancers are the athletes of God.” You three look like angels. I can’t wait to see you dancing in the Christmas concert.

Dance was her style, dance was her fashion.

When music hits you, you dance.

The actual cheerleaders in our film are all Broadway dancers.

Dancers use their bodies in extraordinary ways, so we are chronically pre-arthritic, because of how we use our muscles and our bones.

I always want to have more dancers in my company.

I haven’t had a family, but I don’t think of that as a sacrifice: my dancers are my family.

Empires die, like all of us dancers in the strobe-lit dark. See how the light needs shadows.

I’m very smart when it comes to choosing dancers and trying to show the world that there’s a whole lot of dancing going on.

It’s not good, no question about it, no question about it. I can tell you the dancers feel the same way I do. It gives the town a black eye.

In Chicago, I walked in knowing what the dancers were going to need.

Collaborative workshops and writers’ peer groups hadn’t been invented when I was young. They’re a wonderful invention. They put the writer into a community of people all working at the same art, the kind of...

If I had to reflect on the finest classical male ballet dancers of my time, Vladimir Vasiliev of the Bolshoi and the Danish dancer Eric Bruhn were, I feel, without peer.

Your external appearance to can be great, but your stunning beauty beams from within.

In the UK and the US especially you’ve got a lot of throwaway artists who have their 40 million dancers and they do their show. There’s many artists who would not do a live show...

Here is to all the brilliant minds that love deeply, for they write the stories that make us dream of true love. Here is to all the visionaries that create a miracle when others give...

You’ve got your Justins who have all the back flipping dancers and stuff, and then you’ve got Lemar, and he totally moves you without having to do all of that, and he’s gorgeous.

You can never kill the spirit of an artist. They will always rewrite their resurrection and paint an eternal sunset with a blaze of orange that no one has seen before.