I have been very lucky to work in so many new ballets, but that is what a dancer's work is.

I like to go to anybody else's birthday, and if I'm invited I'm a good guest. But I never celebrate my birthdays. I really don't care.

I remember vividly seeing 'Tarzan' and Fred Astaire, the Chaplin films, Fred Astaire musicals, MGM, because of my mother. She was just interested in everything and she took me to opera and ballet, and then ballet got me hooked.

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

To achieve some depth in your field requires a lot of sacrifices.

Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important.

I read Russian literature a lot.