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Mikhail Baryshnikov Quotes

«I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to to dance better than myself.»
«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.»
«Acting is not my language at all.»
«No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.»
«I am not the first straight dancer or the last.»
«The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure»
«I was kind of amused, and shocked. At first I was watching it with my children. Then I said 'Children, OUT!»
«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.»