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

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

Dancing is my obsession. My life.
- Mikhail Baryshnikov Quote

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

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 Quote

I feel very uneasy with a lot of aspects of the Russian life and the Russian people.
- Mikhail Baryshnikov Quote

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 Quote

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

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

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 Quote

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

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 Quote

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 Quote

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

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

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 Quote

To walk across the street is a risk.
- Mikhail Baryshnikov Quote

Working is living to me.
- Mikhail Baryshnikov Quote