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Sergei Polunin

Russian ballet dancer, actor and model101 QUOTES

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Sergei Vladimirovich Polunin is a Russian ballet dancer, actor, and model. He has held Russian and Serbian citizenship and has said that he has always regarded himself as Russian. In 2025, he was stripped of his Ukrainian citizenship. Polunin is best known for his work in ballet, along with appearances as an actor and model. His public identity has often been closely tied to nationality and to the international profile he built through performance.

“The Royal Ballet is the best paid company, but the dancers get nothing. The stage crew get paid three times more than the dancers, and they have a job for life - dancers only have 10 years.”

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

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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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“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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“Dance is a game of extreme emotions and freedom of the soul, where nothing is ever the same.”

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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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