Mikhail Baryshnikov Quotes
25 Mikhail Baryshnikov quotes:
"I am not the first straight dancer or the last."
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"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."
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"I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography."
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"It's what's left in life, to work with interesting people."
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"You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing."
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"I cannot belong to a nonprofit organization because when you receive grants, you have to make such great compromises with your artistic plans."
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"Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important."
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"I get speeding ticket like everybody else. If the restaurant is full I'm waiting in line like everybody else."
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"I have been very lucky to work in so many new ballets, but that is what a dancer's work is."
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"I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people."
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"Astaire was not a sexual animal, but he made his partners look so extraordinarily related to him."
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"I want to do exactly what I want to do. I'd rather gamble on the box office than beg for a grant."
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"To walk across the street is a risk."
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"Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great."
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"Dancing is my obsession. My life."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Dancers are stripped enough onstage. You don't have to know more about them than they've given you already."
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"I was not extremely patriotic about Mother Russia. I played their game, pretending. You have to deal with, you know, party people, KGB. Horrifying."
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"People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience."
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