Ann Reinking

“Every great dancer has so much to offer.”

“Mr Fosse was obviously influenced by Brecht and Weill, as well as Bergman and Fellini, and you could see the influence of vaudeville and African American hoofing - and Fred Astaire, too.”

“I wanted to have children.”

“Pippin' was, I guess you can say, the break that everyone needs and you hope that you have the talent to back up the opportunity.”

“People always remark on how I'm not as tall as I look in film. I tell them about the time I saw Lassie on a studio lot, and she was this tiny scruffy dog. Film makes you larger than life.”

“You can't force kids on people.”

“I had a small speaking part in 'Coco.' Katharine Hepburn said to me, 'You can act.' Wasn't that nice?”

“People forget that the same man who did 'Star 80' and 'All that Jazz' also did 'Pardon Me Miss But I've Never Been Kissed.'”

“The Fosse technique really does have to have a delicacy and an elegance to it.”

“I always had my feet in two places when I was doing amateur dance in Seattle.”

“It's a good idea to have your career intact and then have children.”

“One of the good things about accomplishing something is that it helps your self-image of yourself.”

“Often when you have less to work with, you do more.”

“The whole gist of 'All That Jazz' is Faustian. It's about a man who sells his soul to show business - which Bob didn't do. He understood the dangers of glamour and falling into that kind of life.”

“If you're a woman and you're working, you're already set up for conflict.”

“The reason why I believe faith is important for a person is that it teaches you to trust.”

“You can always work around this, that or the other, but if everybody's in there because they love it and they just want to do it the best they can, that's an ideal situation that you don't always get.”

“I think of myself, basically, as a very practical person in black bugle beads.”

“The hope is that in rediscovering 'Chicago,' audiences will rediscover what theater was. It was sophisticated, complicated, adult.”

“I remember telling my dad, 'I'm working 14- to 16-hour days and I don't care. I can't wait to get back to work.'”