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What people will do to get away from boredom!
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Mikhail Baryshnikov
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: January 27
Actor
Ballet Dancer
Ballet Master
Choreographer
Dancer
Film Actor
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Television Actor
Rīga
Mikhail Nikolayevich Baryshnikov
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There comes a moment in a young artist's life when he knows he has to bring something to the stage from within himself. He has to put in something in order to be able to take something.
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To walk across the street is a risk.
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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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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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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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You don't measure life by receiving awards.
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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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Nobody is born a dancer.
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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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Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important.
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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 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 feel very uneasy with a lot of aspects of the Russian life and the Russian people.
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Although I don't gamble in life - I've never played poker - I do gamble on stage. I gamble with myself: 'Can I do this?'
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It doesn't matter how high you lift your leg. The technique is about transparency, simplicity, making an earnest attempt.
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People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience.
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Acting is not my language at all.
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I don't go to a gym, I don't do yoga. I don't do personal training.
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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 am not the first straight dancer or the last.
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