Feel Quotes

I'm a news junkie.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Tags: News

Working is living to me.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Tags: Me Working Living

I fell in love with New York.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Tags: Love New York

I'm a product of Russian culture, but I never felt it was my country.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Tags: Never Country Felt

In the second part of life you get rid of stuff you've accumulated.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Tags: You Get Life

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

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Tags: Work Very Been

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

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Tags: Great Put Together

Dances have a second and third life. You feel they are never ready. They always have a chance for another life.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Tags: Chance You Always

Your body actually reminds you about your age and your injuries - the body has a stronger memory than your mind.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Tags: Age You About

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

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Tags: Government Education People

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

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Tags: People Life Been

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

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Tags: You People Because

Film, theater and television always kind of scared me. I don't ever seriously think of myself as an actor at all, and I don't plan any film career or television career.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Tags: Me Think Always

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.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Tags: People About Always

I found that dance, music, and literature is how I made sense of the world... it pushed me to think of things bigger than life's daily routines... to think beyond what is immediate or convenient.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Tags: Music Me Think

Soviet regime in a way deprived me from my childhood in my homeland, because my father was in military, and after the Yalta agreement he was sent to teach in military academy in Riga, and I was born then.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Tags: Me Because Way

The body cannot lie. You cannot be somebody else onstage, no matter how good of an actor or dancer or singer you are. When you open your arms, move your finger, the audience knows who you are, you know.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Tags: Good You Who

Everything I do, it's a bit painterly. I like being surrounded by objects, mostly on paper. I like the images. I like the painting. I like good photography. It's something that makes me an emotional connection, and I feel comfortable around it.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Tags: Good Me Like

I remember vividly seeing 'Tarzan' and Fred Astaire, the Chaplin films, Fred Astaire musicals, MGM, because of my mother. She was just interested in everything and she took me to opera and ballet, and then ballet got me hooked.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Tags: Me Just Because

I cannot draw to save my life, and I'm not a big art scholar, but I worked with many designers throughout my career - in theater, in dance, costume designers, set designers, and I have a lot of artist friends and I do photography, and I think it's kind of in my life.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Tags: Think Life I Think

We lived, until I was 12 or so, in communal apartment with five different families and the same kitchen, in two little - my brother and me and my parents. It was hell, but it was a common thing. My father was not general or admiral, but he was colonel. He was teaching in military academy military topography.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Tags: Me He Thing