Top 40 Mikhail Baryshnikov Dance Quotes
#1. My daughter, the one who lives nearby, is raising her children to be very much aware. We went on a nature walk on Monday; I'm learning so much from her.
Joanne Woodward
#2. 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.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
#3. Humility has tremendous power. Think of Gandhi. That was humility in action. He changed the shape of an entire nation.
Frederick Lenz
#4. The problem is not making up the steps but deciding which ones to keep.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
#5. Nothing is ever too expensive if it furthers the repertoire and artistic standards of a dance company.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
#6. The other day in the garage, I found a book report from the seventh grade that I did about silent movie stars. It's funny to look at now, because it really foretold what my future would be.
Mark Bridges
#7. You cannot dance physically certain things. But look at tango dancers or flamenco or Japanese classical theater. You can, if you're smart enough and you collaborate with the right choreographers, you could really dance your age.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
#8. 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.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
#9. I like the most provocative and most surprising partnerships on stage. Intensity and surprise.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
#10. I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to to dance better than myself.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
#11. We're trying to stretch our muscles creatively. It gives us so much more freedom.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
#12. If your only dance experience is the Nutcracker, it will be a shock; hopefully shocking in a good way.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
#13. I found that dance, music, and literature is how I made sense of the world ... it pushed me to think of things bigger than life's daily routines ... to think beyond what is immediate or convenient.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
#15. Once America's CEOs get back to the business of growing their companies rather than growing their share prices, shareholder value will take care of itself, and all Americans will share in the higher wages and other benefits of a renewed era of economic growth.
Nick Hanauer
#16. As if your ego needs any more stroking. If it took form right now it'd be a giant hard on.
Amy Andrews
#17. It's weird when you see pieces of choreography that were done for you 15 or 20 years ago and now they are being done by another dance company.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
#18. Other science fiction shows had science advisers and consultants," Hanson pointed out.
"It's science fiction, " Weinstein said. "The second part of that phrase matters too."
"But you're making it bad science fiction," Hester said. "And we have to live in it.
John Scalzi
#19. I never liked dance photography; it's very flat, and dance photography in the studio looks very contrived.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
#20. Now there is in a way a renaissance of modern dance - suddenly, it is more respected and discovered.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
#21. When a body moves, it's the most revealing thing. Dance for a minute, and I'll tell you who you are.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
#23. Whales are killed today to supply the limited demand for whale meat or to be used in pet foods or as fodder for fur-bearing animals used in the fur trade.
Paul Watson
#24. When I was in college, I was belittling the woman who later become my wife for not knowing who Boba Fett was, and she responded by asking me if I knew who the Prime Minister of Israel was. Surprisingly? Not Mon Mothma.
Brian K. Vaughan
#25. And I'm suddenly overwhelmed with a need to kick the ass of whoever touched her.
Colleen Hoover
#26. Dance is an ephemeral, a fleeting art. To describe this momentum, every movement on stage, in words is virtually impossible.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
#27. You can be totally involved, you could admire just the shape of or you could be totally emotionally mushed up into the dance.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
#28. I would like to go and dance in Palestine one day, with great pleasure, great pleasure.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
#30. I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
#31. To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#32. I fell in love with New York. It was like every human being, like any relationship. When I was a young New Yorker, it was one city. When I was a grown man, it was another city. I worked with many dance organizations and many wonderful people.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
#34. Some scripts you read and say, 'I've just got to do this' and you find a way of making it work. Some things you turn down because of the impact on family.
Miranda Otto
#35. Sparta, Rome, the knights of Europe, the samurai . . . worshipped strength. Because it is strength that makes all other values possible.
Timothy Ferriss
#36. It doesn't matter how high you lift your leg. The technique is about transparency, simplicity, making an earnest attempt.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
#37. I want to help small businesses grow and thrive. I know how to make that happen. I spent my life in the private sector. I know why jobs come and why they go.
Mitt Romney
#38. 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.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
#40. I cannot draw to save my life, and I'm not a big art scholar, but I worked with many designers throughout my career - in theater, in dance, costume designers, set designers, and I have a lot of artist friends and I do photography, and I think it's kind of in my life.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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