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.

No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.

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

No one is born a dancer. You have to want it more than anything.

Acting is not my language at all.

You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing.

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