Mikhail Baryshnikov Quotes

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There comes a moment in a young artist's life when he knows he has to bring something to the stage from within himself. He has to put in something in order to be able to take something.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

I don't go to a gym, I don't do yoga. I don't do personal training.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

You don't measure life by receiving awards.

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

When a body moves, it's the most revealing thing. Dance for me a minute, and I'll tell you who you are.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

When I see people on the street, I look at how they walk. It's like a signature, a fingerprint.

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

I remember vividly seeing 'Tarzan' and Fred Astaire, the Chaplin films, Fred Astaire musicals, MGM, because of my mother. She was just interested in everything and she took me to opera and ballet, and then ballet got me hooked.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

I would like to go and dance in Palestine one day, with great pleasure, great pleasure.

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

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

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Obviously, the young dancers lack a certain air of maturity.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

People dance at any age.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

What brought me to the theater, no matter you're a Jew or a Russian or Armenian or Latvian, are suddenly illuminated by stage light and one beautiful image of dance.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Nobody is born a dancer.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Soviet regime in a way deprived me from my childhood in my homeland, because my father was in military, and after the Yalta agreement he was sent to teach in military academy in Riga, and I was born then.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

I was very restless. I really wanted to be a part of a kind of a progressive society. I was fed up with these Communist doctrines and you were hassled all the time with members of the Party committee who were KGB, what you have to do, where in the West you can go or not to go.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Just sit and open your eyes and open your heart. It's dance theater.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

I never liked dance photography; it's very flat, and dance photography in the studio looks very contrived.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

The more injuries you get, the smarter you get.

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

To achieve some depth in your field requires a lot of sacrifices.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

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

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Nobody else in the world has a form like the Native American musical, and Americans should be very proud.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

I don't try to dance better than anybody but myself.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Dance is one of the most revealing art forms.

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

We're trying to stretch our muscles creatively. It gives us so much more freedom.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

He is a male butterfly without the wings - the same kind of grace of a very young horse, so angular.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

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

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

If your only dance experience is the Nutcracker, it will be a shock; hopefully shocking in a good way.

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 like the most provocative and most surprising partnerships on stage. Intensity and surprise.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Be. Good. To yourself, to other people, to everything you do. It's a norm of life by which people should try to live. Don't waste time. Be interesting and interested.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Acting is not my language at all.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Divinity of art, it's such a mystery. How to convince people that no matter how much money you can spend on education and art education especially, that it implants, it directs a young person for the rest of their lives, and always in the most humane and positive and dignified manner.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Perfection is a theory. You cannot be a perfect human being, perfect artist. You cannot be a perfect husband, you cannot be a perfect father probably and probably I am not. But go through your daily routine with hope you will be a little better in all respects, and do something meaningful

Mikhail Baryshnikov

I think I got disappointed over the years about New York, about the States. You know, sometimes you go and visit Europe and see good old socialism in its good part! You see public concern about art, and young people's participation and young faces in the audience.

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

No one is born a dancer. You have to want it more than anything.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

When I'm alone, I work sometimes with music, sometimes without and sometimes just listening to NPR.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Dance is an ephemeral, a fleeting art. To describe this momentum, every movement on stage, in words is virtually impossible.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Dances have a second and third life. You feel they are never ready. They always have a chance for another life.

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