Quotes

I'm a professional. And I don't like it when an actor performs brilliantly in one performance and then bombs in another. And I don't perform every performance the same way, but I can't fail.

In those years, much was written about the studio Oleg Tabakov founded in a basement on Chaplygin Street. The performances there were stunning, but the new theater was never granted official status and was closed. The actors were forced to disperse to different theaters, but they continued to gather at the Tabakerka Theater almost every night to rehearse.

For thirty-five years, I had a man by my side, with whom we were one, one planet. Psychologists would call our relationship codependent. Perhaps... But it was a voluntary dependence on each other. And a joyful one. [re Oleg Tabakov]

I was seven years old when my grandmother died. My parents were already living in Moscow, but since they worked a lot, I was left to my own devices. It was typical for Soviet children. I'd come home from school, warm up my lunch, do my homework, and go out into the yard for a walk. I always understood that I was responsible for myself. That's probably where my independence and self-reliance come from.

The only film I'm satisfied with is the English film Mute Witness (1995).