157 Quotes by Mikhail Baryshnikov

When I’m alone, I work sometimes with music, sometimes without and sometimes just listening to NPR.

I want to see people dance, and I would like to guess what kind of people they are. I don’t want to know the recipe for their pasta.

We’re trying to stretch our muscles creatively. It gives us so much more freedom.

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.

When I see people on the street, I look at how they walk. It’s like a signature, a fingerprint.

I have some Russian friends. But probably only 10 percent. I don’t hang out usually in the big Russian communities in Brooklyn and New Jersey.

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!

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.

Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals.