Tommy Tune

“If you feel you have to open a particular door, open it, otherwise all your life you will be wondering what was on the other side.”

“I don't look back. I'm like a shark - I only look forward.”

“The past is a pebble in my shoe.”

“I love directing; it's a joy, a pleasure, a thrill.”

“I always just show up and see what happens. I'm a good attender.”

“I wanted to be a painter, but I was told I was a dancer.”

“You have to be kind to yourself. You have to be your own best friend.”

“I am a spiritual person in an eastern religion kind of way. I learned that happiness for all of us is a switch that you flick in your brain.”

“I don't see anything wrong with being tall. I like being tall.”

“I think dance is a wonderful palliative for old age.”

“There's an audience for everything. I think that's the great thing about America.”

“I am really a classicist, and I mean that in terms of a certain kind of formality. I am not a minimalist.”