My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War.

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.

God created the institution of marriage for mutual happiness and pleasure.

To buy excuses, a person must sell his dream.

I was always the second heavy.

Here's a little known fact - Arnold is the first body builder to run for governor since Janet Reno.

If we do not know what the sorrow of penitence is, we have been living only on the surface of life--unmindful of its deep realities, unconscious of its grander glories.

Unlike sciences, literature as art relies on societal acceptance of a certain vocabulary.

Good and evil lay side by side.

It's a wise thing to hold back.

There is no use in your walking five miles to fish when you can depend on being just as unsuccessful near home.

You must call up every strength you own And you can rip off the whole facial mask.