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" I found that dance, music, and literature is how I made sense of the world... it pushed me to think of things bigger than life's daily routines... to think beyond what is immediate or convenient. "

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Life

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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 have the life of seven cats. "

" The body cannot lie. You cannot be somebody else onstage, no matter how good of an actor or dancer or singer you are. When you open your arms, move your finger, the audience knows who you are, you know. "

" The more injuries you get, the smarter you get. "

" I was always interested in photography and other forms of art. "

" I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography. "

" Dancing is my obsession. My life. "

" 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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" Dancers are stripped enough onstage. You don't have to know more about them than they've given you already. "

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

" 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?' "

" 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. "

" I don't go to a gym, I don't do yoga. I don't do personal training. "

" Soviet regime in a way deprived me from my childhood in my homeland, because my father was in military, and after the Yalta agreement he was sent to teach in military academy in Riga, and I was born then. "

" Choreographers use me as the old guy who still dances. Not that I put on white tights. "

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

" I am not the first straight dancer or the last. "

" I like to go to anybody else's birthday, and if I'm invited I'm a good guest. But I never celebrate my birthdays. I really don't care. "

" To walk across the street is a risk. "