The more injuries you get, the smarter you get.

In opera tradition, when opera die-hard fans, there is a replacement of singer or singer wasn't at his or hers vocal best, doing something, they boo. Especially now that they pay hundreds of dollars for the ticket.

You can be totally involved, you could admire just the shape of or you could be totally emotionally mushed up into the dance.

I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people.

I don't go to a gym, I don't do yoga. I don't do personal training.

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