157 Quotes by Mikhail Baryshnikov

I like the most provocative and most surprising partnerships on stage. Intensity and surprise.

I don't try to dance better than anybody but myself.

Running a company is pretty demanding.

I cannot stand authority.

You can be totally involved, you could admire just the shape of or you could be totally emotionally mushed up into the dance.

He is a male butterfly without the wings - the same kind of grace of a very young horse, so angular.

What brought me to the theater, no matter you're a Jew or a Russian or Armenian or Latvian, are suddenly illuminated by stage light and one beautiful image of dance.

People dance at any age.

Dancing is my obsession. My life.