As soon as I said to myself, "Oh I'm not a dancer; I'm not an actor," it made me so free to do anything. It made me free to not rush, to not be scared of things and say, "Oh, I have no time," or, "I'm not going to make this or that."
Sergei PoluninPeople are going to think what they want to think. I let them. You canโt control perception. Itโs a losing game so I donโt play. I let them lose; lose themselves in their own fantasies of what they want me to be. A rebel, an angel, a romantic, a heart breaker, a boy, a man. Perhaps I am all of those things. Perhaps Iโm none. But what I am is for me to find out, not to be dictated to me. Itโs for me to know.
Sergei Polunin