I am not trying to do material which I cannot do full out.

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.

If you want to find wilier race by common sense, then you have just narrowed your searching area.

I knew what I wanted to do. Sometimes you just had to be brave.

We're tortured, a lot of us, believe me.

I'm such a damn workaholic, that it's interesting to be like, "Oh, what do I do for fun?"

I don't support violence, period.

By and large, Americans close their ears to anything not in English. That's stupid because there's some great music around the world that we should be listening to.

That's one thing Earthlings might learn to do, if they tried hard enough: Ignore the awful times and concentrate on the good ones.

I used to think that diamonds were a girl's best friend, but now I realize it's carbohydrates. Seriously, I have a French baguette at home sporting a matching friendship bracelet.

To imagine that it is possible to perform great military deeds without fighting is just empty dreams.

Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.