I prepare myself very intensely. I am at the theatre four hours before the performance. It allows for complete concentration and preparation.

Even the ears must dance.

You cannot dance an arabesque in 'Swan Lake' and 'Nutcracker' the same way.

Technical things are getting more mechanical. Take 'Swan Lake,' the Black Swan pas de deux. Now, my goodness, they're turning not just 32 fouettes - but double or triple pirouettes.

A real ballerina must fill her space with her own personality.

The expression should come from within oneself, conveying the spiritual - something between earth and heaven. And if one runs, one should not seem to touch the ground.

To look back all the time is boring. Excitement lies in tomorrow.

It's not possible to be perfect - you can always do something better. I'm never proud of what I've done. Sometimes, I'm not ashamed.

I recently learn a new word: insatiable. That's me.

It is the body, subject to the harmony of the steps it is executing, which speaks. And it speaks to the heart in as direct a language as does music.

Dance involves physicality, it involves spirituality and even brains.

We may have done what the devil said we did, but we are NOT who the devil says we are!

Doing well is a conservative idea; meaning well is a liberal idea

If the past has nothing to say to the present, history may go on sleeping undisturbed in the closet where the system keeps its old disguises.

If you feel the purpose of life is struggle, Darwinian fitness, dog eat dog, then you will be eaten by a dog, or you will eat dog. You become what you focus on.

I'm usually called upon to play the dreary suicidal girl.

As far as I'm concerned, Twitter has wiped out Facebook. I'm done with Facebook.

Normal is normal – and has been called normal for a reason.

I can finally get married! Yay government! So proud of you.

One of the proudest things for me with this film [The Fourth Phase] is that year after year we put ourselves right out there making it and no one got seriously injured.

There is no problem with the opening of new houses of prayer for Lutherans and Pentecostals.