Dancer

I want to do exactly what I want to do. I'd rather gamble on the box office than beg for a grant.

I know when I am on stage and I'm kind of on the right track - hopefully most of the time. But a lot of time I'm not.

I am teaching more. That is what I do best.

Running a company is pretty demanding.

When a body moves, it's the most revealing thing. Dance for me a minute, and I'll tell you who you are.

Dance is one of the most revealing art forms.

To achieve some depth in your field requires a lot of sacrifices. Want to or not, you're thinking about what you're doing in life-in my case, dancing.

No matter what I try to do or explore, my Kirov training, my expertise, and my background call me to return to dancing after all, because that's my real vocation, and I have to serve it.

You see, dancers are quite mature people because they start performing so early. They become professionals when they start to take everyday classes.

I feel very uneasy with a lot of aspects of the Russian life and the Russian people.

I - you know, I'm not an actor.

I am not trying to do material which I cannot do full out.

I don't drink milk, and I don't eat bread, pasta or rice. But I eat a lot of meat, chicken, fish and salads.

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.

When I see people on the street, I look at how they walk. It's like a signature, a fingerprint.

In any art form, in Hollywood or in music, there is a handful of people who really, you know, move the envelope.

Your heart is very much connected to your mind.

My life has been immensely enriched by gay mentors, colleagues and friends, and any discrimination and persecution of gay people is unacceptable.

Dancers are stripped enough onstage. You don't have to know more about them than they've given you already.

I cannot draw to save my life, and I'm not a big art scholar, but I worked with many designers throughout my career - in theater, in dance, costume designers, set designers, and I have a lot of artist friends and I do photography, and I think it's kind of in my life.