Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" Running a company is pretty demanding. "
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Demanding
Pretty
Running
Related Quotes:
" I was always interested in photography and other forms of art. "
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Art
Forms
Other
" Your heart is very much connected to your mind. "
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Very
Connected
Mind
" I am not trying to do material which I cannot do full out. "
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Out
Trying
Am
" Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important. "
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Successful
Me
Important
" I am not the first straight dancer or the last. "
Mikhail Baryshnikov
First
Last
Straight
" I fell in love with New York. "
Mikhail Baryshnikov
New York
Fell
York
" 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. "
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Only
New
Brooklyn
" When I'm alone, I work sometimes with music, sometimes without and sometimes just listening to NPR. "
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Music
Work
Sometimes
" I read Russian literature a lot. "
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Lot
Literature
Read
" You open a section of 'The New York Times,' and there's a review or a story on a choreographer or a dancer, and there's an informative, clear image of a dancer. This is, in my view, not an interesting photograph. "
Mikhail Baryshnikov
View
Interesting
You
" Film, theater and television always kind of scared me. I don't ever seriously think of myself as an actor at all, and I don't plan any film career or television career. "
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Myself
Me
Think
" Choreographers use me as the old guy who still dances. Not that I put on white tights. "
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Still
Who
Guy
" I feel very uneasy with a lot of aspects of the Russian life and the Russian people. "
Mikhail Baryshnikov
I Feel
Uneasy
People
" Nothing is ever too expensive if it furthers the repertoire and artistic standards of a dance company. "
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Company
Dance
Nothing
" Obviously, the young dancers lack a certain air of maturity. "
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Lack
Maturity
Young
" Dancers are stripped enough onstage. You don't have to know more about them than they've given you already. "
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Dancers
Enough
Know
" I'm a news junkie. "
Mikhail Baryshnikov
News
" I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself. "
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Only
Than
Better
" A country like Belgium, or socialist countries in central Europe spend more money on art education than the United States, which is a really puzzling thought. "
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Education
Country
Art
" I have the life of seven cats. "
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Life
Seven
Cats
" It's what's left in life, to work with interesting people. "
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Work
People
Left
" In opera tradition, when opera die-hard fans, there is a replacement of singer or singer wasn't at his or hers vocal best, doing something, they boo. Especially now that they pay hundreds of dollars for the ticket. "
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Doing
Tradition
Singer
" I miss horribly those couple of hours before the performance when you get into the theater and you see people. "
Mikhail Baryshnikov
You
See
Before
" In '74 it was really a very gloomy atmosphere, I would say, to put it mildly. "
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Would
Atmosphere
Gloomy
" People dance at any age. "
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Age
People
Any
" Your body actually reminds you about your age and your injuries - the body has a stronger memory than your mind. "
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Memory
Injuries
Body
" The Russian people get so insanely close to each other as friends. Their lives are interrelated so much on an everyday basis. "
Mikhail Baryshnikov
People
Everyday
Friends
" I have been very lucky to work in so many new ballets, but that is what a dancer's work is. "
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Very
Been
Lucky
" My life has been immensely enriched by gay mentors, colleagues and friends, and any discrimination and persecution of gay people is unacceptable. "
Mikhail Baryshnikov
People
Colleagues
Gay
" People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience. "
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Experience
Children
People