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.

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.

It doesn't matter how high you lift your leg. The technique is about transparency, simplicity, making an earnest attempt.

I'm always prepared for the worst.

Here's what I know about political campaigns: no matter what you map out at the beginning, it's always different at the end.

Love life's weariness leavens.

Lately, I have been having nightmares, where I'm cut into so many pieces that there isn't enough of me to be put back together.

The spiritual thirst that is latent in everybody can never come to a place of fulfillment unless people begin to think of each other as potential brothers and sisters.

The government has a defect: it's potentially democratic. Corporations have no defect: they're pure tyrannies.

To be spontaneous means not to act out of the past, because out of the past is all cunningness, cleverness, calculation, arithmetic.

That one time I had ma Latina texture going on.. Or just.. everyday.

Happiness is seasonal, like anything else

One of the paradoxes of globalization is that, in the developing world, we've seen massive reductions in property.