What is art? It is not just nature, it is nurtured nature. It is intelligence applied to what physical ability you have.

When I miss class for one day, I know it. When I miss class for two days, my teacher knows it. When I miss class for three days, the audience knows it.

You live as long as you dance.

For me, purity of movement wasn't enough. I needed expression, more intensity, more mind.

Technique is what you fall back on when you run out of inspiration.

A pas de deux is a dialogue of love. How can there be conversation if one partner is dumb?

The main thing is dancing, and before it withers away from my body, I will keep dancing till the last moment, the last drop.

I approach dancing from a different angle than those who begin dancing at 8 or 9. Those who have studied from the beginning never question anything.

We danced with one body, one soul... For me, Margot is my family. She is all I have, only her.

There was simply from this quite early age the awareness that the only thing I wanted was to dance.

As long as my ballets are danced, I will live.

Thought is creative - Fear attracts like energy - Love is all there is.

Probably no one alive hasn't at one time or another brooded over the possibility of going back to an earlier ideal age in his existence and living a different kind of life.

The love of only one man or one woman is an enclosure.

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

I'd rather buy something that is relatively depressed than something that is relatively high.

Sometimes it feels weird being an actor surrounded by all these real fighters and you gotta keep your confidence high and do your best to learn it as quickly as possible.

I want to hear an alternative viewpoint, and I don't want girls to be defanged and declawed and pretty and mute.

Just because no one has been fortunate enough to realize how wonderful you are, doesnt mean you shine any less.

I think every person and place is interesting, and there's an interesting story behind every door.