I like the most provocative and most surprising partnerships on stage. Intensity and surprise.

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.

The family is the building block for whatever solidarity there is in society.

Kiss me and you will see how important I am.

I have this very positive view of the world getting better and better. The list of things that could be huge setbacks is not very long: A nuclear war, climate change and epidemics.

We often do to people what people are very comfortable with doing to animals without a second thought.

I grew up in the projects and I know how important it is for kids to have hope.

So down thy hill, romantic Ashbourn, glides The Derby dilly, carrying three INSIDES.

The best way to progress is the path of freedom.

Take a deep breath and think of the three things you are grateful for, right in this moment.

As for me, Poetry takes the place of love, because it is enamored of itself, and because this self-lust has a delightful dying fall in my soul.

Human beings are pampered by the Lord. Their real tests don't come until later in life.