Quote

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

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Mikhail Baryshnikov
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: January 27
Actor
Ballet Dancer
Ballet Master
Choreographer
Dancer
Film Actor
Performing Artist
Television Actor
Rīga
Mikhail Nikolayevich Baryshnikov
Teaching
Best

More quotes by Mikhail Baryshnikov

Image
I never liked dance photography it's very flat, and dance photography in the studio looks very contrived.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Image
The problem is not making up the steps but deciding which ones to keep.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Image
You don't measure life by receiving awards.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Image
Dances have a second and third life. You feel they are never ready. They always have a chance for another life.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Image
Nobody else in the world has a form like the Native American musical, and Americans should be very proud.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Image
When I see people on the street, I look at how they walk. It's like a signature, a fingerprint.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Image
Working is living to me.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Image
When I'm alone, I work sometimes with music, sometimes without and sometimes just listening to NPR.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Image
People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Image
My father was a Party member and he was a pretty high rank military officer under the colonel, junior colonel, I don't know the term. He was a total Stalinist. A bit with a streak of anti-Semitism and very shrewd man, a very kind of nervous man.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Image
People dance at any age.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Image
I am not the first straight dancer or the last.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Image
Nobody is born a dancer.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Image
I don't go to a gym, I don't do yoga. I don't do personal training.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Image
You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Image
It's what's left in life, to work with interesting people.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Image
I was never like, collect, collect, like people who go to auctions. I never spent a serious amount of time because I don't have any time!
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Image
What do dancers think of Fred Astaire? It's no secret. We hate him. He gives us a complex because he's too perfect. His perfection is an absurdity. It's too hard to face.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Image
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?'
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Image
I would like to go and dance in Palestine one day, with great pleasure, great pleasure.
Mikhail Baryshnikov