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CLASSICAL
Although one may...
Although one may fail to find happiness in theatrical life, one never wishes to give it up after having once tasted...
When a small...
When a small child . . . I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which...
No one can...
No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent, work transforms talent into...
Success depends in...
Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a...
What exactly is...
What exactly is success? For me it is to be found not in applause, but in the satisfaction of feeling that one is...
Harvard was a...
Harvard was a kind of luxurious afternoon.
Source: Looking back on Harvard's Class...
I've always had...
I've always had the idea . . . that we were conducting a military operation. It always seemed to me to be in a state...
Transplanting the ballet...
Transplanting the ballet to the US is like trying to raise a palm tree in Dakota.
A repertory, a...
A repertory, a patrimony of ballets, tended as carefully as the collection of 600-year-old bonsai in Tokyo's Imperial...
In liberal democracy...
In liberal democracy and anxious anarchy, the traditional classic dance, compact of aristocratic authority and...
Life forms illogical...
Life forms illogical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who...
Genius is another...
Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.
Minor things can...
Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the first time.
The one important...
The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking...
Great artists are...
Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in...
Acting is not...
Acting is not my language at all.
Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference...
There comes a...
There comes a moment in a young artist's life when he knows he has to bring something to the stage from within...
The essence of...
The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
Source: In Time, 19...
I do not...
I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to to dance better than myself.
No dancer can...
No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another...