Mikhail Baryshnikov Quotes - Page 3

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

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

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

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

What people will do to get away from boredom!

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

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

You cannot dance physically certain things. But look at tango dancers or flamenco or Japanese classical theater. You can, if you're smart enough and you collaborate with the right choreographers, you could really dance your age.

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

I like to go to anybody else's birthday, and if I'm invited I'm a good guest. But I never celebrate my birthdays. I really don't care.

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

I am not trying to do material which I cannot do full out.

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

A theater is such a revealing form of art, such a transparent and good actors, they're such powerful individuals. I always kind of dreamt that one day I will open my mouth on stage.

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

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

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

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

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

Nobody is born a dancer.

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

You can be totally involved, you could admire just the shape of or you could be totally emotionally mushed up into the dance.

You invest into the future, and that's how young people become human in best sense of it - through the great experience of listening a Müller symphony or to see a great play by Tennessee Williams, experience something in a ballet, in a film.

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

I am teaching more. That is what I do best.