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I - you know, I'm not an actor.

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

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

I fell in love with New York.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Working is living to me.

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

Dance is one of the most revealing art forms.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

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

I'm a product of Russian culture, but I never felt it was my country.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

I get speeding ticket like everybody else. If the restaurant is full I'm waiting in line like everybody else.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

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

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Everything I do, it's a bit painterly. I like being surrounded by objects, mostly on paper. I like the images. I like the painting. I like good photography. It's something that makes me an emotional connection, and I feel comfortable around it.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

The more injuries you get, the smarter you get.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

I - you know, I'm not an actor.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

I'm an impatient person in many respects. I like to put myself in uncomfortable situations. It forces me to deliver.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

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

Mikhail Baryshnikov

To walk across the street is a risk.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

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

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

I am a performer. I go on stage and make a fool of myself.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

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.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

I cannot belong to a nonprofit organization because when you receive grants, you have to make such great compromises with your artistic plans.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

It's weird when you see pieces of choreography that were done for you 15 or 20 years ago and now they are being done by another dance company.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

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

Mikhail Baryshnikov

To achieve some depth in your field requires a lot of sacrifices. Want to or not, you're thinking about what you're doing in life-in my case, dancing.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

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

Mikhail Baryshnikov

I really reject that kind of comparison that says, Oh, he is the best. This is the second best. There is no such thing.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

I have been very lucky to work in so many new ballets, but that is what a dancer's work is.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

I am not the first straight dancer or the last.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

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

Mikhail Baryshnikov

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

Mikhail Baryshnikov

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

Mikhail Baryshnikov

No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Astaire was not a sexual animal, but he made his partners look so extraordinarily related to him.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing.

Mikhail Baryshnikov