Mikhail Baryshnikov
Dancer
1948-01-27
Mikhail Baryshnikov is a Latvian-born American dancer, choreographer, and actor. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential ballet dancers of the 20th century.
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Quotes by Mikhail Baryshnikov
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When I'm alone, I work sometimes with music, sometimes without and sometimes just listening to NPR.
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People dance at any age.
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Your body actually reminds you about your age and your injuries - the body has a stronger memory than your mind.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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Choreographers use me as the old guy who still dances. Not that I put on white tights.
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We lived, until I was 12 or so, in communal apartment with five different families and the same kitchen, in two little - my brother and me and my parents. It was hell, but it was a common thing. My father was not general or admiral, but he was colonel. He was teaching in military academy military topography.
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I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.
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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 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.
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I fell in love with New York. It was like every human being, like any relationship. When I was a young New Yorker, it was one city. When I was a grown man, it was another city. I worked with many dance organizations and many wonderful people.
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The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
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