Michail Baryshnikov quotes is a Soviet-born Russian American dancer, choreographer, and actor Born: 01/27/1948 Country: russia

• Fame - is an extra lump of sugar in a cup of tea. (Michail Baryshnikov)
• Astaire was not a sexual animal, but he made his partners look so extraordinarily related to him. (Michail Baryshnikov)
• Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great. (Michail Baryshnikov)
• Dancers are stripped enough onstage. You don't have to know more about them than they've given you already. (Michail Baryshnikov)
• Dancing is my obsession. My life. (Michail Baryshnikov)
• Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important. (Michail Baryshnikov)
• I am not the first straight dancer or the last. (Michail Baryshnikov)
• I cannot belong to a nonprofit organization because when you receive grants, you have to make such great compromises with your artistic plans. (Michail Baryshnikov)
• I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself. (Michail Baryshnikov)
• I feel very uneasy with a lot of aspects of the Russian life and the Russian people. (Michail Baryshnikov)
• I get speeding ticket like everybody else. If the restaurant is full I'm waiting in line like everybody else. (Michail 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. (Michail Baryshnikov)
• I have been very lucky to work in so many new ballets, but that is what a dancer's work is. (Michail 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. (Michail Baryshnikov)
• I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography. (Michail 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. (Michail Baryshnikov)
• I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people. (Michail Baryshnikov)
• I want to do exactly what I want to do. I'd rather gamble on the box office than beg for a grant. (Michail 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. (Michail 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 do ne by another dance company. (Michail Baryshnikov)
• It's what's left in life, to work with interesting people. (Michail Baryshnikov)
• No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business. (Michail Baryshnikov)
• People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience. (Michail Baryshnikov)
• The Russian people get so insanely close to each other as friends. Their lives are interrelated so much on an everyday basis. (Michail 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. (Michail Baryshnikov)
• To walk across the street is a risk. (Michail Baryshnikov)
• Working is living to me. (Michail Baryshnikov)
• You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing. (Michail Baryshnikov)

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