Top 94 Quotes by Mikhail Baryshnikov

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

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

I miss horribly those couple of hours before the performance when you get into the theater and you see people.

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?'

People dance at any age.

I never liked dance photography; it's very flat, and dance photography in the studio looks very contrived.

I don't want to do anything Freudian.

I like to make my own mistakes.

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

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