People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience.

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

People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience.

Dance is an ephemeral, a fleeting art. To describe this momentum, every movement on stage, in words is virtually impossible.

Nobody is born a dancer.

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.

I was not extremely patriotic about Mother Russia. I played their game, pretending. You have to deal with, you know, party people, KGB. Horrifying.