I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.

No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.

The more injuries you get, the smarter you get.

When a body moves, it's the most revealing thing. Dance for me a minute, and I'll tell you who you are.

Dancers are made, not born.

People dance at any age.

Soviet regime in a way deprived me from my childhood in my homeland, because my father was in military, and after the Yalta agreement he was sent to teach in military academy in Riga, and I was born then.

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

It's what's left in life, to work with interesting people.