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Acting is not my language at all.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Mikhail Baryshnikov
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: January 27
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Ballet Dancer
Ballet Master
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Film Actor
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Television Actor
Rīga
Mikhail Nikolayevich Baryshnikov
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My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War.
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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.
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Dance is an ephemeral, a fleeting art. To describe this momentum, every movement on stage, in words is virtually impossible.
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Just sit and open your eyes and open your heart. It's dance theater.
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A country like Belgium, or socialist countries in central Europe spend more money on art education than the United States, which is a really puzzling thought.
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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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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.
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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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What brought me to the theater, no matter you're a Jew or a Russian or Armenian or Latvian, are suddenly illuminated by stage light and one beautiful image of dance.
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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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He [Astaire] was not a sexual animal, but he made his partners look so extraordinarily related to him.
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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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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.
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I would like to go and dance in Palestine one day, with great pleasure, great pleasure.
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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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Perfection is a theory. You cannot be a perfect human being, perfect artist. You cannot be a perfect husband, you cannot be a perfect father probably and probably I am not. But go through your daily routine with hope you will be a little better in all respects, and do something meaningful
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Now there is in a way a renaissance of modern dance - suddenly, it is more respected and discovered.
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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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To walk across the street is a risk.
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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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