I don't drink milk, and I don't eat bread, pasta or rice. But I eat a lot of meat, chicken, fish and salads.

I don't go to a gym, I don't do yoga. I don't do personal training.

When a body moves, it's the most revealing thing. Dance for me a minute, and I'll tell you who you are.

I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.

Be. Good. To yourself, to other people, to everything you do. It's a norm of life by which people should try to live. Don't waste time. Be interesting and interested.

The more injuries you get, the smarter you get.

I was not extremely patriotic about Mother Russia. I played their game, pretending. You have to deal with, you know, party people, KGB. Horrifying.

No one is born a dancer. You have to want it more than anything.

No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.

When I see people on the street, I look at how they walk. It's like a signature, a fingerprint.

There comes a moment in a young artist's life when he knows he has to bring something to the stage from within himself. He has to put in something in order to be able to take something.

My God, Jack - with a look like that, you two should just get a room. And try not to pick the one with a dead body next to it this time.

Try to accept each other for what you are and don't point out the fact that the hair he's losing on his head is now growing out of his nose - and his ears.

If we love our country we should also love our countrymen.

Music can save people, but it can't in the commercial way it's being used. It's just too much. It's pollution.

Consciously and unconsciously, an artist engaged in serious work is always raising or dealing with the question, 'What really matters?'

We didn't create ISIS. ISIS created ISIS.

Philosophy is the true mother of science.

Learn to fail with pride - and do so fast and cleanly. Maximise trial and error - by mastering the error part.

Observe that open loves are held to be more honourable than secret ones, and that the love of the noblest and highest, even if their persons are less beautiful than others, is especially honourable.

The artist is seen like a producer of commodities, like a factory that turns out refrigerators.