People Quotes by Mikhail Baryshnikov

People dance at any age.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

When I see people on the street, I look at how they walk. It's like a signature, a fingerprint.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

Divinity of art, it's such a mystery. How to convince people that no matter how much money you can spend on education…

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

I gave away a lot of works for benefits and then people would also give me back.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

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.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

You see, dancers are quite mature people because they start performing so early. They become professionals when they start to take everyday…

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

I was never like, "collect, collect," like people who go to auctions. I never spent a serious amount of time because I…

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

I want to see people dance, and I would like to guess what kind of people they are. I don't want to…

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

I think I got disappointed over the years about New York, about the States. You know, sometimes you go and visit Europe…

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

When a dancer comes onstage, he is not just a blank slate that the choreographer has written on. Behind him he has…

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

I've always said, 'I am a selector, I am not defector' - the first few phrases in English I learned. I said…

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

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

I fell in love with New York. It was like every human being, like any relationship. When I was a young New…

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

I fell in love with New York. It was like every human being, like any relationship. When I was a young New…

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

What people will do to get away from boredom!

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

You invest into the future, and that's how young people become human in best sense of it - through the great experience…

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

I feel very uneasy with a lot of aspects of the Russian life and the Russian people.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

My life has been immensely enriched by gay mentors, colleagues and friends, and any discrimination and persecution of gay people is unacceptable.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

In any art form, in Hollywood or in music, there is a handful of people who really, you know, move the envelope.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

It's what's left in life, to work with interesting people.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

I miss horribly those couple of hours before the performance when you get into the theater and you see people.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

The Russian people get so insanely close to each other as friends. Their lives are interrelated so much on an everyday basis.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

I was not extremely patriotic about Mother Russia. I played their game, pretending. You have to deal with, you know, party people,…

— Mikhail Baryshnikov