Mikhail Baryshnikov

No one is born a dancer. You have to want it more than anything. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#humor #inspirational #humor

No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#astaire #been #business #dancer #fred

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

#achieve #case #dancing #depth #doing

Dancing is my obsession. My life. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#life #my life #obsession

I am not the first straight dancer or the last. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#dancer #first #i #i am #last

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

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#because #children #experience #get #get married

Dancers are stripped enough onstage. You don't have to know more about them than they've given you already. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#already #dancers #enough #given #know

Astaire was not a sexual animal, but he made his partners look so extraordinarily related to him. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#astaire #extraordinarily #him #his #look

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

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#artists #colossal #creative #extraordinary #great

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

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#country #education #especially #government #i