I like to go to anybody else's birthday, and if I'm invited I'm a good guest. But I never celebrate my birthdays. I really don't care.

What do dancers think of Fred Astaire? It's no secret. We hate him. He gives us a complex because he's too perfect. His perfection is an absurdity. It's too hard to face.

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

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

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.

You don't measure life by receiving awards.

Dances have a second and third life. You feel they are never ready. They always have a chance for another life.