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It's what's left in life, to work with interesting people.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
I adored my mother, and I will always have extraordinary memories about her and remember her, and she opened the doors for me to appreciate arts.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
Now there is in a way a renaissance of modern dance - suddenly, it is more respected and discovered.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
The essence of all art is having pleasure giving pleasure.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
I would like to go and dance in Palestine one day, with great pleasure, great pleasure.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
I am a performer. I go on stage and make a fool of myself.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
I feel very uneasy with a lot of aspects of the Russian life and the Russian people.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
I fell in love with New York.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
Astaire was not a sexual animal, but he made his partners look so extraordinarily related to him.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
I don't try to dance better than anybody but myself.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
He is a male butterfly without the wings - the same kind of grace of a very young horse, so angular.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
The problem is not making up the steps but deciding which ones to keep.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
My life has been immensely enriched by gay mentors, colleagues and friends, and any discrimination and persecution of gay people is unacceptable.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
I don't see in myself any perfection.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
I cannot stand authority.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
When a body moves, it's the most revealing thing. Dance for a minute, and I'll tell you who you are.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
Dancers are made, not born.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
I am teaching more. That is what I do best.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
No one is born a dancer. You have to want it more than anything.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
I was always interested in photography and other forms of art.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
I never liked dance photography; it's very flat, and dance photography in the studio looks very contrived.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
In any art form, in Hollywood or in music, there is a handful of people who really, you know, move the envelope.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
I miss horribly those couple of hours before the performance when you get into the theater and you see people.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
I really reject that kind of comparison that says, Oh, he is the best. This is the second best. There is no such thing.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
I know when I am on stage and I'm kind of on the right track - hopefully most of the time. But a lot of time I'm not.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
I get speeding ticket like everybody else. If the restaurant is full I'm waiting in line like everybody else.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
I am not trying to do material which I cannot do full out.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
When I'm alone, I work sometimes with music, sometimes without and sometimes just listening to NPR.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
Dancers are stripped enough onstage. You don't have to know more about them than they've given you already.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
Obviously, the young dancers lack a certain air of maturity.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
I spend at least a couple hours a day in the studio, every day, whether I'm dancing or not.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
To achieve some depth in your field requires a lot of sacrifices. Want to or not, you're thinking about what you're doing in life-in my case, dancing.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
Dances have a second and third life. You feel they are never ready. They always have a chance for another life.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
The Russian people get so insanely close to each other as friends. Their lives are interrelated so much on an everyday basis.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
I want to do exactly what I want to do. I'd rather gamble on the box office than beg for a grant.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
In '74 it was really a very gloomy atmosphere, I would say, to put it mildly.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
I'm an impatient person in many respects. I like to put myself in uncomfortable situations. It forces me to deliver.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
In the second part of life you get rid of stuff you've accumulated.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
I have the life of seven cats.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
I'm a product of Russian culture, but I never felt it was my country.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
Dance is an ephemeral, a fleeting art. To describe this momentum, every movement on stage, in words is virtually impossible.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
Working is living to me.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
People dance at any age.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
Nobody else in the world has a form like the Native American musical, and Americans should be very proud.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
I go a lot to see young people downtown in little theaters. It's great. If you start somebody's career, it's so exciting.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
If your only dance experience is the Nutcracker, it will be a shock; hopefully shocking in a good way.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
I'm a news junkie.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
You see, dancers are quite mature people because they start performing so early. They become professionals when they start to take everyday classes.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
You can be totally involved, you could admire just the shape of or you could be totally emotionally mushed up into the dance.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
I have some Russian friends. But probably only 10 percent. I don't hang out usually in the big Russian communities in Brooklyn and New Jersey.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
Dance is one of the most revealing art forms.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
I don't drink milk, and I don't eat bread, pasta or rice. But I eat a lot of meat, chicken, fish and salads.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
I have been very lucky to work in so many new ballets, but that is what a dancer's work is.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
Just sit and open your eyes and open your heart. It's dance theater.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
Choreographers use me as the old guy who still dances. Not that I put on white tights.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
Although I don't gamble in life - I've never played poker - I do gamble on stage. I gamble with myself: 'Can I do this?'
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
Running a company is pretty demanding.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
When I see people on the street, I look at how they walk. It's like a signature, a fingerprint.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
The more injuries you get, the smarter you get.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
I like the most provocative and most surprising partnerships on stage. Intensity and surprise.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
It doesn't matter how high you lift your leg. The technique is about transparency, simplicity, making an earnest attempt.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
I like to go to anybody else's birthday, and if I'm invited I'm a good guest. But I never celebrate my birthdays. I really don't care.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
I gave away a lot of works for benefits and then people would also give me back.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
I like to make my own mistakes.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
Your body actually reminds you about your age and your injuries - the body has a stronger memory than your mind.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
Nothing is ever too expensive if it furthers the repertoire and artistic standards of a dance company.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
It's weird when you see pieces of choreography that were done for you 15 or 20 years ago and now they are being done by another dance company.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
Nobody is born a dancer.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
I want to see people dance, and I would like to guess what kind of people they are. I don't want to know the recipe for their pasta.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to to dance better than myself.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
I - you know, I'm not an actor.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
I was not extremely patriotic about Mother Russia. I played their game, pretending. You have to deal with, you know, party people, KGB. Horrifying.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
I don't want to do anything Freudian.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
Dancing is my obsession. My life.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
I am not the first straight dancer or the last.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
Fundamentals are the building blocks of fun.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
Acting is not my language at all.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
We're trying to stretch our muscles creatively. It gives us so much more freedom.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
What people will do to get away from boredom!
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
I don't go to a gym, I don't do yoga. I don't do personal training.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
I've been hurt quite a few times.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
I was never like, "collect, collect," like people who go to auctions. I never spent a serious amount of time because I don't have any time!
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
Your heart is very much connected to your mind.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
I cannot belong to a nonprofit organization because when you receive grants, you have to make such great compromises with your artistic plans.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
You don't measure life by receiving awards.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
I have made mistakes.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
To walk across the street is a risk.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov