Mikhail Baryshnikov Ballet Quotations

Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important.

I remember vividly seeing 'Tarzan' and Fred Astaire, the Chaplin films, Fred Astaire musicals, MGM, because of my mother. She was just interested in everything and she took me to opera and ballet, and then ballet got me hooked.

I don't try to dance better than anybody but myself.

The problem is not making up the steps but deciding which ones to keep.

Be. Good. To yourself, to other people, to everything you do. It's a norm of life by which people should try to live. Don't waste time. Be interesting and interested.