Sergei Polunin

I wasted so many years just traveling and sitting in hotels, searching for things, not knowing.

— Sergei Polunin

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

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

— Sergei Polunin

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

— Sergei Polunin

I normally don't regret. I enjoy everything, even if it's bad or good.

— Sergei Polunin

What made my mind go free is that I wanted to become an artist. As soon as I said to myself, 'Oh…

— Sergei Polunin

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

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

— Sergei Polunin

The Sensorium Galaxy Planet of Motion is the future. We are memorizing dance because dance will exist in a virtual world forever.…

— Sergei Polunin

The Royal Ballet School looked after me very well, they were like my family, and the company gave me everything. But I…

— Sergei Polunin

As soon as I said to myself, "Oh I'm not a dancer; I'm not an actor," it made me so free to…

— Sergei Polunin

Just let me live my life.

— Sergei Polunin

I'm not a bad boy now I'm living in Russia. London was great but there were too many distractions.

— Sergei Polunin

I actually always have good intentions.

— Sergei Polunin

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

I always hoped I would be injured so I didn't have to dance any more.

— Sergei Polunin

I would love for dancers to be treated better and for dancers to have support, for dancers to have managers, agents. This…

— Sergei Polunin

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

— Sergei Polunin

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

I never wanted to be a good example.

— Sergei Polunin

I wish I could have built without destroying things.

— Sergei Polunin

You know, it was only by traveling that I started to mature and to make my own choices, learn how to deal…

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It's almost died, classical dance.

— Sergei Polunin

It's true that I got a bit lost. But that was because I had grown up in a system where I never…

— Sergei Polunin

I don't have time to party; I'm always on the plane.

— Sergei Polunin