If your only dance experience is the Nutcracker, it will be a shock; hopefully shocking in a good way.

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

We're trying to stretch our muscles creatively. It gives us so much more freedom.

The Russian people get so insanely close to each other as friends. Their lives are interrelated so much on an everyday basis.

I have some Russian friends. But probably only 10 percent. I don't hang out usually in the big Russian communities in Brooklyn and New Jersey.

You don't measure life by receiving awards.

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