Latest Mikhail Baryshnikov Quotes from Interviews

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• What people will do to get away from boredom!

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Boredom, People, Get Away

  "Mikhail Baryshnikov Shared His Walls". Interview with Lorraine Cwelich, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 10, 2012.

• I fell in love with New York. It was like every human being, like any relationship. When I was a young New Yorker, it was one city. When I was a grown man, it was another city. I worked with many dance organizations and many wonderful people. In the '90s, it became kind of a hard and unwelcoming city in many ways. It became conservative, like the whole country.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Country, New York, Men

  "Mikhail Baryshnikov Shared His Walls". Interview with Lorraine Cwelich, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 10, 2012.

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

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  People, Giving, Benefits

  "Mikhail Baryshnikov Shared His Walls". Interview with Lorraine Cwelich, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 10, 2012.

• 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!

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  People, Serious, Auctions

  "Mikhail Baryshnikov Shared His Walls". Interview with Lorraine Cwelich, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 10, 2012.

• 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.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Play, Symphony, People

  "Dancer-actor Mikhail Baryshnikov". "The Tavis Smiley Show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. April 28, 2014.

• I always had a kind of strange relationship with New York City, with total love affair in the beginning then retreat during the kind of conservatives of politics and real estate and business came, and then I am again kind of fighting for the justice to the city, to open the city for the artists.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  New York, Real, Fighting

• 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.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Art, People, Divinity

• You don't measure life by receiving awards.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Awards, Receiving

  "Dancer-actor Mikhail Baryshnikov". "The Tavis Smiley Show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. April 28, 2014.

• A theater is such a revealing form of art, such a transparent and good actors, they're such powerful individuals. I always kind of dreamt that one day I will open my mouth on stage.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Art, Powerful, One Day

• You cannot dance physically certain things. But look at tango dancers or flamenco or Japanese classical theater. You can, if you're smart enough and you collaborate with the right choreographers, you could really dance your age.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Smart, Dancer, Age