I go to bed really late - if I just sleep I won't have a life outside ballet. — Sergei Polunin Copy Share Image
The Royal Ballet School looked after me very well, they were like my family, and the company gave me everything. But I… — Sergei Polunin Copy Share Image
Whoever thought of making ballet? I mean, what is it? It's so alien. You just look at people's behavior as well -… — Sergei Polunin Copy Share Image
Being a ballet dancer isn't cool. Football, boxing, hockey... they're cool. And you make more money. — Sergei Polunin Copy Share Image
The ballet world is so competitive, and for no reason. It's not a sport. It's an art. There's no winner. — Sergei Polunin Copy Share Image
I danced in corps de ballet for 11 hours a day. That was the hardest work I have ever done in my… — Sergei Polunin Copy Share Image
Well, that's why ballet is one of the hardest disciplines - you kind of stay childlike, because you never really experience childhood,… — Sergei Polunin Copy Share Image
You know when you believe in Christmas? I was like that with ballet. I thought I would reach a level where I'd… — Sergei Polunin Copy Share Image
When I became a principal at the Royal Ballet it was my childhood goal, a dream and I became it at 19.… — Sergei Polunin Copy Share Image
There's no agents or managers to represent them. Dancers don't have any voice. They have nothing. Nobody can afford a flat to… — Sergei Polunin Copy Share Image
The Royal Ballet was good to me. They gave me everything I asked for. It's just... I felt tricked. I became a… — Sergei Polunin Copy Share Image
Some of my friends were going to dancing school and, when one of them was auditioning for a ballet school in Kiev,… — Sergei Polunin Copy Share Image
The contemporary programs in London are harder and much more damaging for the body. With classical ballet you are relaxed mentally because… — Sergei Polunin Copy Share Image
The only family I knew was the Royal Ballet and I didn't feel I was part of it in a way. I… — Sergei Polunin Copy Share Image
In England, ballet is kind of closed. They are opening up a little bit, but it was always something not for the… — Sergei Polunin Copy Share Image
I'd always been one of the best in my gymnastics school, so I transferred to trying to be the best dancer, without… — Sergei Polunin Copy Share Image
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… — Sergei Polunin Copy Share Image
The Royal Ballet is the best paid company, but the dancers get nothing. The stage crew get paid three times more than… — Sergei Polunin Copy Share Image
I wasted so many years just traveling and sitting in hotels, searching for things, not knowing. — Sergei Polunin Copy Share Image
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… — Sergei Polunin Copy Share Image
I didn't want people to think I'm a dancer. I'm much more. I'm a human being. — Sergei Polunin Copy Share Image
Art and war are opposites, so our goal as an artist is to build and create, not destroy. — Sergei Polunin Copy Share Image
I normally don't regret. I enjoy everything, even if it's bad or good. — Sergei Polunin Copy Share Image
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… — Sergei Polunin Copy Share Image
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. — Sergei Polunin Copy Share Image
I went and got a tattoo of James Dean on my shoulder without actually seeing him in any movies. — Sergei Polunin Copy Share Image
The Sensorium Galaxy Planet of Motion is the future. We are memorizing dance because dance will exist in a virtual world forever. The Planet… — Sergei Polunin Copy Share Image
The Royal Ballet School looked after me very well, they were like my family, and the company gave me everything. But I was unhappy… — Sergei Polunin Copy Share Image
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.… — Sergei Polunin Copy Share Image
