My parents were Muscovites. They worked at the Kaliber factory.

Today, a skilled manager makes more than the owner. And owners fight each other to get the skilled managers.

Large companies cannot finance political parties as their shareholders and employees have different political views.

I like everything to be dependable, heavy, English furniture.

I have to travel a lot, but relaxation to me is when I am at home.

My father was a construction engineer, and my mother was a production engineer.

A left turn in the fate of Russia is as necessary as it is inevitable.

To admit guilt for nonexistent crimes is unacceptable to me.

I'm not an ordinary prisoner.

I knew President Yeltsin well. He would never have tolerated government officials demonstratively showing off the millions they acquired through corruption, the way it's done today.

I established my bank in 1988.

That's the thing about parents, I'm beginning to realize. You don't have to see them all that much to imitate them.

Pain is part of being alive and we need to learn that. Pain does not last forever nor is it necessarily unbearable and we need to be taught that.

There is a possibility that your ability as a player may well be analysed by future generations on your one day statistics. That's the day I dread most.

A people must have dignity and identity.

I'm a more mature actress now.

You don't love someone out of loyalty... nor out of sympathy, either.

Funniness is the wild card in the pack.

I like the idea of exercising, but I never do.

Too nice, and yet too true!

Make passionate my sense of hearing.