Baryshnikov Quotes

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

Working is living to me. - Mikhail Baryshnikov

To walk across the street is a risk. - 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

There comes a moment in a young artist's life when he knows he has to bring something to the stage from within himself. He has to put in something in order to be able to take something out. - Mikhail Baryshnikov

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

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

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

If I had to compare myself to Baryshnikov, I'd give up and take up carpentry. - Kevin McKenzie