“If I have any strength as a dancer, I got it all from Nijinska. Her ba...” — Cyd Charisse Quote

“If I have any strength as a dancer, I got it all from Nijinska. Her barre was tough, and there were very difficult combinations.”

“It would be impossible to make a comparison between Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly. Their personalities are entirely different.”

“If I'm not working, I like to attend a dancing class. At least that keeps you in condition. Then, if you get a call for a dancing part, you don't have to go through two weeks of misery getting back in shape.”

“My favourite language, actually, is Czech, just because it's so colourful. We have so many combinations, words, and expressions. I have to say there are a lot of things which you can say in Czech, but you cannot really translate, because the meaning would make no sense.”

“I am essentially a middle-aged woman who likes making up weird snack combinations and galloping.”

“The musician writes for the orchestra what his inner voice sings to him; the painter rarely relies without disadvantage solely upon the images which his inner eye presents to him; nature gives him his forms, study governs his combinations of them.”