“In dancing I don't want to see someone who is just displaying what he can do well. That doesn't grip me. Only when you do exactly the opposite, let go ofyour prowess and go against it, only then it becomes interesting. You're skating over thin ice and lose power and your certainties. That is true for the audience, too. I don't want the people in the auditorium thinking: ‘Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! the whole time. No, I want them to hate what they see, and think: ‘No! Wrong!' And only on a given moment, after they have had to fight for it whithin themselves:‘Yyyesss!"
I still like to demolish everything and not be certain of anything, in my private life too. Of course you have to be able to be in command of that a little --- I don't advise unstable people to take this far. But actually I am quite an annihilator. Again and again I want to build up something new and surprise myself.
Nothing is certain, is it? And what makes sense to some, makes no sense to others. Only the uncertainty and the fear to lose things is primary for everybody. That is in everybody's nature. That shackles him to his emotions, as soon as there are things he cannot say goodbye to. There always is a moment when you start to become attached.”

“In her films, Marilyn always appears to be totally real and natural but the make up man, Whitney Snyder, revealed there was never a time when she did not feel ‘terror, pure terror' about her acting to the point of actually being sick on set. She struggled to conquer this fear unsuccessfully and said: ‘What am I afraid of? Why am I so afraid? Do I think I can't act? I know I can act but I am afriad. I am afraid and I should not be and I must not be.”

“My first outing as a Professor went something like this: Allow me to introduce Liz Aggiss. She is a Professor, a Professor of Dance. The poor sod looks anxious. ‘A Professor of what?’ he queried. ‘Of dance’. ‘Oh,’ he mumbled. ‘I thought you said she was a professor of Doubt.. Hmm..interesting.

” Insight, CNN
“What seems indisputable may be in doubt.”

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