Short Quotes - Author Mikhail Baryshnikov Showing 1 - 26 of 26 Add Quote The Russian people get so insanely close to each other as friends. Their lives are interrelated so much on an everyday basis. Mikhail Baryshnikov People Upvote0 I feel very uneasy with a lot of aspects of the Russian life and the Russian people. Mikhail Baryshnikov Life Upvote0 You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing. Mikhail Baryshnikov Family Upvote0 To walk across the street is a risk. Mikhail Baryshnikov Risk Upvote0 Astaire was not a sexual animal, but he made his partners look so extraordinarily related to him. Mikhail Baryshnikov Upvote0 Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great. Mikhail Baryshnikov Artists Upvote0 Dancers are stripped enough onstage. You don't have to know more about them than they've given you already. Mikhail Baryshnikov Upvote0 Dancing is my obsession. My life. Mikhail Baryshnikov Life Upvote0 Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important. Mikhail Baryshnikov Successful Upvote0 I cannot belong to a nonprofit organization because when you receive grants, you have to make such great compromises with your artistic plans. Mikhail Baryshnikov Upvote0 I get speeding ticket like everybody else. If the restaurant is full I'm waiting in line like everybody else. Mikhail Baryshnikov Waiting Upvote0 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. Mikhail Baryshnikov People Upvote0 I have been very lucky to work in so many new ballets, but that is what a dancer's work is. Mikhail Baryshnikov Work Upvote0 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. Mikhail Baryshnikov Friends Upvote0 People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience. Mikhail Baryshnikov Art Upvote0 I really reject that kind of comparison that says, Oh, he is the best. This is the second best. There is no such thing. Mikhail Baryshnikov Upvote0 I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people. Mikhail Baryshnikov Art Upvote0 Working is living to me. Mikhail Baryshnikov Living Upvote0 I want to do exactly what I want to do. I'd rather gamble on the box office than beg for a grant. Mikhail Baryshnikov Office Upvote0 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. Mikhail Baryshnikov Life Upvote0 I was not extremely patriotic about Mother Russia. I played their game, pretending. You have to deal with, you know, party people, KGB. Horrifying. Mikhail Baryshnikov Mother Upvote0 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. Mikhail Baryshnikov Dance Upvote0 It's what's left in life, to work with interesting people. Mikhail Baryshnikov Work Upvote0 No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business. Mikhail Baryshnikov Business Upvote0 I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography. Mikhail Baryshnikov Dance Upvote0 I am not the first straight dancer or the last. Mikhail Baryshnikov First Upvote0