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

I adored my mother, and I will always have extraordinary memories about her and remember her, and she opened the doors for me to appreciate arts.

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.

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 like the most provocative and most surprising partnerships on stage. Intensity and surprise.

You see, dancers are quite mature people because they start performing so early. They become professionals when they start to take everyday classes.

You don't measure life by receiving awards.