Mikhail Baryshnikov Quotes

» No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.

» Working is living to me.

» I have been very lucky to work in so many new ballets, but that is what a dancer's work is.

» Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important.

» It's what's left in life, to work with interesting people.

» To walk across the street is a risk.

» Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great.

» I feel very uneasy with a lot of aspects of the Russian life and the Russian people.

» Astaire was not a sexual animal, but he made his partners look so extraordinarily related to him.

» I really reject that kind of comparison that says, Oh, he is the best. This is the second best. There is no such thing.

» I was not extremely patriotic about Mother Russia. I played their game, pretending. You have to deal with, you know, party people, KGB. Horrifying.

» People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience.

» I get speeding ticket like everybody else. If the restaurant is full I'm waiting in line like everybody else.

» I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people.

» Dancers are stripped enough onstage. You don't have to know more about them than they've given you already.

» 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.

» You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing.

» Dancing is my obsession. My life.

» I cannot belong to a nonprofit organization because when you receive grants, you have to make such great compromises with your artistic plans.

» I want to do exactly what I want to do. I'd rather gamble on the box office than beg for a grant.

» 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.

» I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography.

» The Russian people get so insanely close to each other as friends. Their lives are interrelated so much on an everyday basis.

» I am not the first straight dancer or the last.

» 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.

» 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.

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