When I play, I feel like I'm in a theatre, why should I look ugly then, because I'm a tennis-player?

It's true I always try to be as seductive as possible but I wouldn't be here if I couldn't play tennis.

When I was 12, every little girl in Russia was trying to wear her hair like mine and playing tennis.

Like any young person, I do what I want.

I'm like an expensive menu... you can look but you can't afford!

There are a lot of pretty girls. I am a tennis player first of all, that is why I am here, and if wasn't producing results no one would notice me.

I don't know what better teenage life you could get than going around the world doing what you love to do.

God gives all to those, who get up early.

I think that tennis is a lady's sport, so we should look out there like ladies.

The world believes all blondes are stupid and brunettes are smarter. Well, I disagree.

I worked very hard and I earned all the attention I'm getting.

Boyfriends have to understand me and my needs. They have to know what I want out of my life and about my strict regime. I go to bed at 10pm and not later. I separate my professional and private lives.

When I play, I feel like I'm in a theatre, why should I look ugly then, because I'm a tennis-player?

At this year's Open, I'll have five boyfriends.

I just play for fun.

You don't think people would go on about my looks if I was No. 500 in the world instead of No.12, do you? Anyway, as I keep telling everyone, you can't blame me for looking like this on purpose.

My manager wants me to dress like a nun and I want to dress like a teenager.

Do I consider myself sexy? It all depends on the way I'm feeling. When I'm happy inside, that's when I feel most sexy.

It's that I have a good personality and am a good tennis player.

I am beautiful, famous and gorgeous.

A court is like a scene, people want to see attractive people.

I think it's really important for me not to forget where I came from.

I've just done a commercial in the U.S. in which I talk about stocks, shares and bonds. Everyone is amazed. They ask me: 'You really know about that stuff or did you just learn it for the commercial?' I tell them I wouldn't do it unless I understood and had an interest.

I have a lot of boyfriends, I want you to write that. Every country I visit, I have a different boyfriend. And I kiss them all.

The courts are as a stage, people love to see attractive players.

I'm like a menu at an expensive restaurant; you can look at me, but you can't afford me.

I've been judged my whole life. People always expected amazing things from me.

A court is like a scene people want to see attractive people.

Judgment is judgment, whether you're obese, or too skinny, or not athletic enough.

Dating a tennis player is risky - love means nothing to us.

We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find free play.

So, first you have to be able to play with a metronome. Then you take your freedom. If you play in an orchestra, you got to watch the conductor, he is like a metronome, but it is more difficult because he can change rhythms.

Never play anything that don't sound right. You might not make any money, but at least you won't get hostile with yourself.

A play is much easier to maintain your personal life with because if you're rehearsing, you're working like from 11 to 6 or 11 to 5 and you get to have your whole morning and your whole evening. When you're doing the play, you have all day.

I'd like to one day play Amanda, the mother, in The Glass Menagerie.

I couldn't be happier about being a part of 'Hunger Games' and to play Katniss. I have a huge responsibility to the fans of this incredible book and I don't take it lightly. I will give everything I have to these movies and to this role to make it worthy of Suzanne Collins' masterpiece.

For years the Trio did nothing but play for musicians and other hip people. We practically starved to death.

If you give it good concentration, good energy, good heart and good performance, the song will play you.

Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself.

I mean when the play was on in New York I was starting to get film offers coming through, and since the film's come out I get offered more than I used to, but it happens incrementally.

If Davis Cup was a little bit less or once every two years, I would be more inclined to play. But the way it is now, it is too much tennis for me.

I remember him watching me through the crack of a door singing with a hairbrush. I was in front of his mirror. I think he wanted me to sing. He would get me on the table and make me sing sometimes or play the piano. He was very encouraging on that front.

If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.

You have to like the characters you play.

Good directors say, Here's where the play is. They stand by the heart of the matter. Some of them stand beside it.

The value of music is to be able to play one note at the right time in the right way.

So our ears got used to listening to jazz in the place that it was that the bass player could not play. No one really realized it and really addressed it until the bass players who could play their instrument came along and started doing something with it.

Well, I play Jews and parrots. Parrots are how I've branched out.

We just have to get it going and play hard every time out.