Mikhail Baryshnikov quotes - page 3

Dance is one of the most revealing art forms. (Mikhail Baryshnikov)
I - you know, I'm not an actor. View quote
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I don't drink milk, and I don't eat bread, pasta or rice. But I eat a lot of meat, chicken, fish and salads. View quote
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Now there is in a way a renaissance of modern dance - suddenly, it is more respected and discovered. View quote
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Running a company is pretty demanding. View quote
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Nobody else in the world has a form like the Native American musical, and Americans should be very proud. View quote
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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. View quote
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I adored my mother, and I will always have extraordinary memories about her and remember her, and she opened the doors for me to appreciate arts. View quote
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I read Russian literature a lot. View quote
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I would like to go and dance in Palestine one day, with great pleasure, great pleasure. View quote
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Dances have a second and third life. You feel they are never ready. They always have a chance for another life. (Mikhail Baryshnikov)
The minute plane set down, the minute I stepped again on Latvian ground, I realized this was never my home. My heart didn't even skip one beat. View quote
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Children being left, it's not always like books of Charles Dickens. When you lose your parents in childhood, it's a fact of life, and, you know, human beings are extraordinary powerful survivors. My mother commit suicide. I was lucky it was not in front of me. O.K.? Which is truth, and Father was confused, and we never had any relationship, serious relationship. I never knew my father, in a way. But what? It's made me different? No, I mean. I blame for every fuckups in my life my parents? No. [Pause] I got lucky. I fell in love with dance. View quote
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You know, I never planned to leave. I was not extremely patriotic about Mother Russia. You know, I played their game, pretending, of course. You have to deal with, you know, party people, KGB... Horrifying. View quote
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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. Then you arrive in the States and it is $150 to go to an opera. Ridiculous. We have so much young talent on the streets, but because everything is commercial they finally drift away from their dream of their life. View quote
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I don't go to a gym, I don't do yoga. I don't do personal training. View quote
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When I see people on the street, I look at how they walk. It's like a signature, a fingerprint. View quote
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I've always said, 'I am a selector, I am not defector' - the first few phrases in English I learned. I said I hate 'defector'; something defective about the people. It's a bad word. View quote
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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In the second part of life you get rid of stuff you've accumulated. (Mikhail Baryshnikov)
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. View quote
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When I'm alone, I work sometimes with music, sometimes without and sometimes just listening to NPR. View quote
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In '74 it was really a very gloomy atmosphere, I would say, to put it mildly. View quote
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Acting is not my language at all. View quote
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