Mikhail Baryshnikov Quotes

"I was kind of amused, and shocked. At first I was watching it with my children. Then I said 'Children, OUT!"
-Mikhail Baryshnikov

"I can see one guy doing what we call an 'air flare' ... and I'll see 30 other individuals do the same move in a competition. Not one of those b-boys did anything to try to twist it and make it their own."
-Mikhail Baryshnikov

"No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business."
-Mikhail Baryshnikov

"I am not the first straight dancer or the last."
-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

"Acting is not my language at all."
-Mikhail Baryshnikov