In the second part of life you get rid of stuff you've accumulated. — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
“I hated life in the Soviet Union. You had to pretend something you didn't feel.” — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
I found that dance, music, and literature is how I made sense of the world... it pushed me to think of things… — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
When a dancer comes onstage, he is not just a blank slate that the choreographer has written on. Behind him he has… — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
Be. Good. To yourself, to other people, to everything you do. It's a norm of life by which people should try to… — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
I cannot draw to save my life, and I'm not a big art scholar, but I worked with many designers throughout my… — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
Although I don't gamble in life - I've never played poker - I do gamble on stage. I gamble with myself: 'Can… — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
I feel very uneasy with a lot of aspects of the Russian life and the Russian people. — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
There comes a moment in a young artist's life when he knows he has to bring something to the stage from within… — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
My life has been immensely enriched by gay mentors, colleagues and friends, and any discrimination and persecution of gay people is unacceptable. — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
Dances have a second and third life. You feel they are never ready. They always have a chance for another life. — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
I was always interested in photography and other forms of art. — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
In the second part of life you get rid of stuff you've accumulated. — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
No one is born a dancer. You have to want it more than anything. — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I always had a kind of strange relationship with New York City, with total love affair in the beginning then retreat during the kind… — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
I like the most provocative and most surprising partnerships on stage. Intensity and surprise. — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
When a body moves, it's the most revealing thing. Dance for me a minute, and I'll tell you who you are. — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
