You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. Its a Catch-22 kind of thing. – Mikhail Baryshnikov
Your body actually reminds you about your age and your injuries – the body has a stronger memory than your mind. – Mikhail Baryshnikov
No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business. – Mikhail Baryshnikov
I was very restless. I really wanted to be a part of a kind of a progressive society. I was fed up with these Communist doctrines and you were hassled all the time with members of the Party committee who were KGB, what you have to do, where in the West you can go or not to go. – Mikhail Baryshnikov