Mikhail Baryshnikov Quotes


25 quotes:

"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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"Working is living to me."
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"To walk across the street is a risk."
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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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"The Russian people get so insanely close to each other as friends. Their lives are interrelated so much on an everyday basis."
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"People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience."
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"It's what's left in life, to work with interesting people."
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"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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"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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"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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"I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people."
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"I really reject that kind of comparison that says, Oh, he is the best. This is the second best. There is no such thing."
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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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"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 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 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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"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 feel very uneasy with a lot of aspects of the Russian life and the Russian people."
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"Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important."
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"Dancing is my obsession. My life."
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