Sergei Polunin Quotes

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I never wanted to be a good example.

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I didn’t choose ballet, it was my mum‘s choice.

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I actually always have good intentions.

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I want to make people happy. I love kids and I want to help kids. And tigers.

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I’m not fond of the idea of doing ballet for ballet’s sake, because dancers get exploited and they’re not paid well. They do it for the love.

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You don’t lose anything, in fact you gain a lot by having free-thinking people.

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Once you achieve something you just want to move on and achieve something else and keep achieving, like Alexander the Great – he captured one country and then he just kept doing it.

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In the beginning, I was very passionate about it, I loved it. It wasn’t until I actually reached the top that I became despondent. I felt like I was betrayed, betrayed by my family, my school. I felt very angry about the whole thing. You spend 12 hours a day, dancing, and then what?

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Unfortunately, in our society, nobody wants people to think.

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I go to bed really late – if I just sleep I won‘t have a life outside ballet.

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I struggle to get the big companies to trust me, or be willing to work with me.

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The contemporary programs in London are harder and much more damaging for the body. With classical ballet you are relaxed mentally because it’s what you learnt, but I want to push myself.

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I didn’t want people to think I’m a dancer. I’m much more. I’m a human being.

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There’s no agents or managers to represent them. Dancers don’t have any voice. They have nothing. Nobody can afford a flat to live in. They have to share to be able to survive. In a place like the Royal Ballet, that shouldn’t happen.

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It’s almost died, classical dance.

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A footballer in three weeks earns what a dancer makes in a year.

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If you just stay still and don’t create, you die as an artist.

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Would I be happy just to be an actor? I don’t think I would.

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For many years I saw the world as two sides: east and west, two powers. And I was trying to search what is white, what is black. Both sides wanted me.

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It’s true that I got a bit lost. But that was because I had grown up in a system where I never made my own decisions.

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Whoever thought of making ballet? I mean, what is it? It’s so alien. You just look at people’s behavior as well – people trying to show off on stage and people clapping.

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The most amazing feeling in the world is destroying. It takes so much strength and patience and time to build, and destruction is fast, fast, fast. Explosive.

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I sort of played with the bad-boy thing, and I gave a couple of interviews where I said stupid things.

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You know when you believe in Christmas? I was like that with ballet. I thought I would reach a level where I’d have enough money to bring my family back together, and I would have freedom.

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Well, that’s why ballet is one of the hardest disciplines – you kind of stay childlike, because you never really experience childhood, so you try to stay in that.

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I couldn’t come back to gymnastics because the floors were too dusty for my health.

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I’d always been one of the best in my gymnastics school, so I transferred to trying to be the best dancer, without knowing anything about ballet. I learned it as a routine.

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I would like to do more projects involving artists from film, fashion and music. That’s the spark for me.

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It always felt as though there was a wall between me and contemporary dance. I didn’t know how to get into it.

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Sometimes I don’t eat all day, then have four meals between 8 P. M. and 4 A. M.

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In my head I want to do dancing as a hobby. I don’t want it to be my job. I want to do it as a joy, not having to do not-very-good galas just to make my living.

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I like imperfections in the world.

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Ukraine told me I couldn’t return. They put me on a list of terrorists and war criminals.

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It’s amazing how such a small piece of art can be such a powerful thing for people.

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As a dancer, you dance and you shut up. You don’t open your mouth. I started using the media as psychiatrists, I guess, they were someone to talk to.

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I want to do as much as I can.

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In Russia it is great because you can concentrate 100 percent on your work, there are not as many distractions as London, so I’ve literally had a year concentrating on my dancing.

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I do get depressed sometimes, I don’t know why. It’s since I was a kid and it’s just part of my personality.

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It doesn’t matter if you are gay or straight: the man should have strength to take care of families and take care of loved ones.

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I think often people know about Rasputin in Russian history – but know only a little bit. He’s an interesting man, who in general I think meant well.

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When I was a kid I always liked scratching myself – making shapes, making drawings, and I always thought I would have a tattoo.

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The bad press started to play a big part in how people perceived me, and I started playing on that too, which was a big mistake.

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It’s not about being modern or classical or about being sexy: it’s all about exchanging energies with the audience.

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It’s not being bad; it’s about trying to find yourself. It’s strange how people take you.

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But yeah, I don’t think you can conquer demons.

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I did gymnastics, I went to school, then I did homework. I missed out on a childhood.

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The Royal Ballet was good to me. They gave me everything I asked for. It’s just… I felt tricked. I became a principal and I couldn’t even afford to pay for dinner. I couldn’t afford a flat.

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The only family I knew was the Royal Ballet and I didn’t feel I was part of it in a way. I moved up quite quickly so I didn’t make many friends. You are on your own in that sort of place.

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When you are low, you do tattoos and it gives you adrenaline for a couple of days and you’re happy.

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I’m on good terms with Kevin O’Hare.

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I danced in corps de ballet for 11 hours a day. That was the hardest work I have ever done in my life. I haven‘t seen anybody else work more.

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I love movies and there’s something close to me about James Dean – I always wanted to do choreography on him.

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I went and got a tattoo of James Dean on my shoulder without actually seeing him in any movies.

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Plant or animal, black or white, gay or straight, man or woman, I always see things deeper than just a surface. I always look deep inside the person and you will see a beautiful person in every human being.

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I am very thankful to the Royal Albert Hall for the opportunity to dance here; it’s been a long hope of mine.

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The ballet world is so competitive, and for no reason. It’s not a sport. It’s an art. There’s no winner.

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Art and war are opposites, so our goal as an artist is to build and create, not destroy.

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It’s very important for humans to see dance, it’s a language that everybody understands.

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What made my mind go free is that I wanted to become an artist. 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.

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In England, ballet is kind of closed. They are opening up a little bit, but it was always something not for the general public. So you don’t get fame, like a football star or a film star. And if you don’t get fame, you can’t do other stuff.

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