You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing.

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.

Her shoes were comfortable. They reflected her hope for the evening.

Love makes the soul glow.

Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship and pass the rosy wine.

The eyes of the social herd, who always observe little things, and generally form from them their opinions of great affairs.

People seek for the spiritual champagne, but they mistake what it is.

If you aren't confused by quantum mechanics, you haven't really understood it.

Freedom is a public library.

I await joyous surprises while working, an awakening of the materials that I work with and that my spirit develops.

I am in my life for a purpose. There is no place to rush to. I am safe. It's all ok.

What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.