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

I've been hurt quite a few times.

I have the life of seven cats.

My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War.

Dances have a second and third life. You feel they are never ready. They always have a chance for another life.

I miss horribly those couple of hours before the performance when you get into the theater and you see people.

Your heart is very much connected to your mind.

I don't want to do anything Freudian.

I have made mistakes.

I am teaching more. That is what I do best.

Obviously, the young dancers lack a certain air of maturity.

Running a company is pretty demanding.

My father was a Party member and he was a pretty high rank military officer under the colonel, junior colonel, I don't know the term. He was a total Stalinist. A bit with a streak of anti-Semitism and very shrewd man, a very kind of nervous man.

I was very restless. I really wanted to be a part of a kind of a progressive society. I was fed up with these Communist doctrines and you were hassled all the time with members of the Party committee who were KGB, what you have to do, where in the West you can go or not to go.

In '74 it was really a very gloomy atmosphere, I would say, to put it mildly.

It's weird when you see pieces of choreography that were done for you 15 or 20 years ago and now they are being done by another dance company.

I am not the first straight dancer or the last.

I cannot belong to a nonprofit organization because when you receive grants, you have to make such great compromises with your artistic plans.

To achieve some depth in your field requires a lot of sacrifices. Want to or not, you're thinking about what you're doing in life-in my case, dancing.

I get speeding ticket like everybody else. If the restaurant is full I'm waiting in line like everybody else.

I really reject that kind of comparison that says, Oh, he is the best. This is the second best. There is no such thing.

Astaire was not a sexual animal, but he made his partners look so extraordinarily related to him.

Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great.

To walk across the street is a risk.