Mikhail Baryshnikov People Quotations

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

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

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

I've always said, 'I am a selector, I am not defector' - the first few phrases in English I learned. I said I hate 'defector'; something defective about the people. It's a bad word.

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

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.

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

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

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

I was never like, "collect, collect," like people who go to auctions. I never spent a serious amount of time because I don't have any time!

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

What people will do to get away from boredom!

You invest into the future, and that's how young people become human in best sense of it - through the great experience of listening a Müller symphony or to see a great play by Tennessee Williams, experience something in a ballet, in a film.

People dance at any age.

I want to see people dance, and I would like to guess what kind of people they are. I don't want to know the recipe for their pasta.

Be. Good. To yourself, to other people, to everything you do. It's a norm of life by which people should try to live. Don't waste time. Be interesting and interested.

Divinity of art, it's such a mystery. How to convince people that no matter how much money you can spend on education and art education especially, that it implants, it directs a young person for the rest of their lives, and always in the most humane and positive and dignified manner.

When a dancer comes onstage, he is not just a blank slate that the choreographer has written on. Behind him he has all the decisions he has made in life Each time, he has chosen, and in what he is onstage, you see the result of those choices. You are looking at the person he is, and the person who, at this point, he cannot help but be Exceptional dancers, in my experience, are also exceptional people, people with an attitude toward life, a kind of quest, and an internal quality. They know who they are, and they show this to you, willingly.