I read Russian literature a lot.

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.

Nothing is permanent in my mysterious world, even my moments of belief - Jenifer

Visualize yourself at your best. Be determined to earn the proud badge of excellence. By working hard and practicing, one day you will earn its golden title.

The doctrine that 'human rights' are superior to 'property rights' simply means that some human beings have the right to make property out of others.

Hell ain't half full.

But there was something about you that made me think of sparks and motion.

People seem to think I'm Satan.

Our definition of a weakness is anything that gets in the way of excellent performance.

If you give 99 percent, you will make my job very easy.

When I notice that all the beats sound exactly the same, it starts to wear on me.

In the construction of a country, it is not the practical workers but the idealists and planners that are difficult to find.