No excuses ever, for anyone; that is my principle at the outset. I deny the good intention, the respectable mistake, the indiscretion, the extenuating circumstance. With me there is no giving of absolution or blessing.
The hardest thing that I'll ever do, is ballet. Because you are either good or bad.
I'm a perfectionist and my own worst critic.
I'm a harsh critic, you know? I am.
The masses, the public, is too strict.
You undergo too strict a paradox, Striving to make an ugly deed look fair.
I'm a perfectionist. I'm very critical, especially artistically.
The rigid saint, by whom no mercy's shown To saints whose lives are better than his own.
I grew up in a small, old-school Catholic world, imprinted with an above-average number of categories and judgments.
I am a self-critical perfectionist.
