George Balanchine

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

God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.

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

I wanted to be a male ballet dancer.

I do not find the concept of consorting with unknown persons appealing.

That is the definition of equal justice under law: everyone gets a fair shot, everyone pays their fair share, and everyone plays by the same set of rules.